Mises Wire

The new film Margin Call is a tale of a Lehman-like collapse and a Goldman Sachs-like crony retu

While Tea Partiers have been venting their spleens about the $700 billion in TARP money that congress threw at the banks in order to keep the moder

With every passing day I believe more and more that status-seeking drives a lot of human action.

This year, I tried (and failed) to give up on spectator sports.

As the discussion of the UC-Davis Pepper Spraying incident has proceeded, one of the best things I’ve seen circulating is this quote from the first

I’ve seen a couple of exhortations to boycott Black Friday.

Almost all contemporary economists, except for Austrian economists, persist in analyzing the performance of the market economy using the model of “

I spent part of this afternoon at my neighborhood Starbucks, where I was working on a project.

The United States government has just crossed the magic line where its total national debt now exceeds (more than 100%) of GDP.

I wrote an extra Forbes piece last night in re