Mises Wire

Ludwig von Mises

The development of capitalism consists in everyone's having the right to serve the customer better and/or more cheaply.

D.W. MacKenzie

When it comes to the effects of taxation, Krugman the economist appears to disagree with Krugman the New York Times columnist.

Xiong Yue

Threatened by the existence of private digital currencies, central banks are looking to create some of their own.

Thorsten Polleit

Negative interest rates have proven to be unpopular with the public. But the central banks have other strategies up their sleeves.

Grégoire Canlorbe

Mark Thornton and Grégoire Canlorbe discuss Mises, Rothbard, the Drug War, and Adam Smith in this interview from Institut Coppet in France.

Mises Institute

The major candidates had their first shared television event this week. Absent was any discussion of the real issues effecting the American people.

Gary Galles

James Fenimore Cooper, America's first national novelist, saw real danger from the impulse toward majority rule as a panacea for every complaint.

Ryan McMaken

More than a decade ago, some South American countries were moving to the left in an effort to create a new paradigm. Things have not gone well for them.

Richard M. Ebeling

In the nearly seven decades since its appearance, Human Action has come to be recognized as one of the truly great classics of modern economics.

Tho Bishop

The War on Cash is nothing more than a lust for more power by central bankers and their advocates in academia.