Mises Wire

We are less than a month away from the election and it can not be over soon enough.

People have a natural preference for having good things now instead of having them later. This is a problem for advocates of negative interest rates.

We can have free trade now by declaring it unilaterally. The motto should be: liberalize first, negotiate later.

We allowed economics to be lost when we decided it was too complicated and too technical for intelligent laypeople to understand.

Repealing the 17th Amendment will not change the US Senate into a hotbed of decentralizers and free-marketers.

Since you are in this coercive situation, there is no reason why you should not try to make use of it if you think it will make a difference.

Cato's Letters 69 and 70 focused on the British election of 1722. But they also provide useful insights Americans should consider this November.

Neither government-controlled trade, nor government-enforced open borders are libertarian.

Americans are saving very little money for emergencies. Unfortunately, central banks have been encouraging the same thing worldwide.

In the new book Debating Gun Control, two philosophers take a look at the philosophical underpinnings beneath the debate.