Mises Wire

David Gordon

Samuel Moyn, a distinguished intellectual historian, argues that both Catholics and Protestants began in the 1930s to defend human rights and dignity, giving these ideas a conservative interpretation.

Ryan McMaken

Somewhere along the line, Americans (and possibly others) began to suffer from the idea that starting a business and serving customers involves taking something out of the community.

Yuri N. Maltsev

The World Health Organization has declared that eating meat will kill you. But the WHO's war on meat is not really about your health. It's about "saving the planet" from the latest industry that has been deemed "unsustainable" by global elites.

Jonathan Newman
In Janet Yellen's Q&A with the House Financial Services Committee, Rep. Tom Emmer asked about the possibility and consequences of negative interest rates.
Ronald-Peter Stöferle

Given the current state of the economy, the Fed appears quite unlikely to raise interest rates any time soon. But what will it do if the economy starts to really go south?

Matthew McCaffrey

Without freedom in ideas and the profit motive, entrepreneurs will be unable and unwilling to spread the benefits of science across the globe, and countless advances will be doomed to obscurity, when they could be used to improve human life.

Mark Thornton

Across the board drug decriminalization is coming and Ireland is next in line.

Ryan McMaken
The BBC reports this week that a secession movement in Hawaii continues to simmer under the surface.
Ryan McMaken
A ballot measure to legalize marijuana in Ohio failed this week, although as Mark Thornton notes, it was really just a scheme to give a government agency a cronyist monopoly on cannabis sales. But...
Brendan Brown

Historically, reserve currencies have arisen without the help of the IMF, but we’re now witnessing a situation in which the IMF may declare the Chinese yuan a “reserve currency” as part of a larger game by global elites to manipulate global exchange rates.