Mises Wire

Patrick Barron

The modern western society is built upon the welfare state, yet it is that very welfare state that is undermining the social fabric. It is time to recognize the damage the welfare state is doing and put a stop to it.

David Gordon

This week, Dr. Gordon explores some of the thought of Thomas Nagel on reason and how subjectivists who deny objective reason are inviting us not to believe them through their arguments.

Joshua Mawhorter

Instead of market competition, inflation forces young and old into rivalrous competition for housing.

Jason Jewell

Libertarian Literary and Media Criticism is a welcome addition to a field long starved for alternatives to Marxist approaches. 

William L. Anderson

American journalists and academics have invented a fairy tale in which “free market orthodoxy” has dominated political thinking in America for the past forty years. This is not even slightly true, but pundits repeat the lie again and again.

Ryan McMaken

This downward movement in CPI growth—which remains positive and well above the Fed's two-percent target—reflects, in part, falling rents and oil prices due to soft demand. 

David Brady, Jr.

National Review’s purging of the John Birch Society was done because the Birchers began to turn against the Vietnam War.

Vincent Cook

The US economy is hooked on easy money and artificially low interest rates. Huge credit expansions are not “stimulating” the economy; they are destroying it.

Connor O'Keeffe

Only a couple years ago, climate change was a major political issue. Now it’s strangely absent from public discourse. Why did this happen? Because, at least for now, it stopped being the most useful way for elites to justify their power grabs.

Ryan McMaken

If employment reports continue to show growing economic stagnation, calls for more monetary inflation and government spending will only grow.