Mises Wire

Wanjiru Njoya

Inequality is inevitable and there are many reasons it exists. However, by declaring that racial discrimination is the primary cause of inequality is to substitute egalitarian ideology for economic reality.

Daniel Lacalle

Rate cuts do not signal a healthy economy but a slowing one, so equities slump despite the promise of a rate cut because investors continue to see lower buying pressure.

Isaias Lobão

Government officials cannot stand to be mocked, but Brazil's finance minister and his tax plans have made the regime the target of a new wave of mockery.

David Gordon

Professor Tara Smith tries to set the record straight regarding Ayn Rand, Objectivism, and reason. Unfortunately, as David Gordon demonstrates, Smith's analysis misses the mark.

George Ford Smith

Most Americans have no idea of the damage that the Federal Reserve system has done to their daily lives. Unfortunately, most Americans are not particularly interested in finding out either.

Ryan McMaken

Harris's advisors must know price controls drive up prices. They just don't care. Price controls are a political policy. They help politicians get elected. 

Michael Rectenwald

Meanwhile at the EU, the censorship and anti-free speech regime marches on. The current target is Elon Musk's X. It won't stop there.

Eduard Bucher

In writing about the scope and history of education in the U.S., Albert J. Nock had high hopes for its future. Even though much of it has degenerated into wokeism and outright mediocrity, there always seem to be green shoots of learning coming from those who still value learning.