Mises Wire

Matthew McCaffrey

Today's Mises Daily outlines some of Mises’s ideas about the economics of immigration. As always, Mises is thoughtful and perceptive, and continues to offer fresh insight decades after his death.

Joseph T. Salerno
The exhortations of our rulers and their crony fractional-reserve banksters to renounce our irrational desire to hoard cash and embrace a brave new cashless world appear to be falling on deaf ears.
Ryan McMaken
The Fed announced today that, as expected, it will not change the target Federal Funds Rate. This follow's last month's rate change when the Fed increased its target rate from 0-0.25 up to 0.25-0.50, which was the first increase in seven years.
Matthew McCaffrey

Ludwig von Mises understood that, when it comes to the movement of capital and labor across the borders of nation-states, only the ideology of freedom and free markets can lead to peaceful and fruitful collaboration between states and societies.

Lucas Vaz

Thanks to relentless government intervention, the economy in Brazil is in deep trouble. Anyone familiar with Austrian business cycle theory, however, could have predicted the current troubles long ago.

Mises Institute

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Peter G. Klein

US Defense Secretary Ash Carter is making the rounds with a speech about ISIL being a "cancer" that must be cured with aggressive treatment.

T. Hunt Tooley

Not a Snow Job; or, Spontaneous Order in Winter.

Ryan McMaken

The whole concept of the "living wage" was once a benchmark used to evaluate the worth of a human being. That is, if you couldn't earn a living wage, you were ripe for sterilization.