Mises Wire

Tim Haffner
A crony-capitalist, semi-privatized war in Afghanistan, may be cheaper — but it's still an unwarranted occupation financed by taxpayers.
Henry Hazlitt
Henry Hazlitt's critique of Milton Friedman's Negative Income Tax remains relevant as libertarians continue to embrace Universal Basic Income.
Tho Bishop
The Trump's rejection of "net neutrality" is a loss for government regulators, but a win for the internet.
Jonathan Newman

Why is it so controversial to suggest that we should leave interest rates and credit markets alone?

David Gordon
Eric Maskin has made some extravagant claims for the significance of Paul Samuelson.
Ludwig von Mises
Labor is appraised like a commodity not because the entrepreneurs are cruel but because they are subject to the supremacy of the pitiless consumers.
Jacob G. Hornberger
The US government prosecuted an American man for trying to help the children that US officials were trying to kill with their sanctions.
Gregory Bresiger
Without government, who would run the inefficient, crumbling, malfunctioning railroad "enterprise" that is Amtrak?
Mises Institute
The economics of Ludwig von Mises really is something different and revolutionary.
T. Hunt Tooley
Though we tend to think of the war in terms of stalemate and attrition, the war was anything but static to most of the millions of participants.