Mises Wire

Not understanding how politics works will prove to be much more harmful than ignorance about how markets work.

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 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.

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

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.