Mises Wire

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If we are to fight the scourge of war, we need to think about war and the state differently, much like the soldiers of WWI's Christmas Truce.

Recent defeats for left-wing governments in Latin America are a good thing, but the region has a long way to go in embracing free markets.

The CIA, a tax-supported government-created organization, will always be "politicized" and seek to increase its own power and wealth.

In this introduction to The Mises Reader, Shawn Ritenour explains why Mises's work transcends both economics and social theory.

Jo Ann Cavallo and Carlo Lottieri have edited a valuable collection of essays applying Austrian and libertarian insights to Italian literature.

Mises called Hazlitt "the economic conscience of our country and of our nation."

Today's paper money does not have value due to some government decree. It's value as money is based on a past connection to commodity money.

The War on Gambling is about as moral as the War on Drugs.

There is nothing wrong with living with your parents, but not since the Great Depression have there been so many returning to the nest.