Mises Wire

Louis Rouanet

Ireland has tried to attract businesses by undercutting the tax rates of its neighbors. That is a good thing wherever it occurs.

Mark Thornton

Free-trade deals — which are more about increasing government power than trade — are in retreat in the face of Brexit and Trump.

George Pickering

Investors are not cooperating with the Bank of England's efforts to drive Brits to riskier investments.

Pedro Favoreto

In Brazil, street food is an important source of income for poor households. So why is the government always interfering in the street-food economy?

Bruno Gonçalves Rosi

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was impeached this morning. Is there any hope the country might turn to freedom and free markets?

Ryan McMaken

In 2016, candidates are ignoring the issue of social benefits and federal spending. Experience suggests opposing social spending is political suicide.

Karl-Friedrich Israel

Like Mises, economist Robert Lucas understood that realities of human action make it impossible to treat economics as if it were a physical science.

Ryan McMaken

There is no bright line that divides the allegedly "free-market" US from the "socialist" welfare states of Western Europe.

Ron Paul

Obamacare's latest failures show government-run health care does not serve the interests of those supposedly "benefiting" from it.

Jeff Deist

Politicians and elites viscerally hate any form of tax competition — at least for the plebes.