Mises Wire

The Biden administration has decided that the REAL problem with housing is that the wrong people are saving money and making timely mortgage payments. They must be punished.

Like so many other Indian tribes, the Cherokees found out the US government has a penchant for not abiding by its own treaties.

One of the great fictions of US history is that the USA's foreign policy was based on noninterventionism until the nation was forced to enter World War II.

April was yet another month of declining real wages, and was the twenty-fifth month in a row during which growth in average hourly earnings failed to keep up with price inflation.

Economically speaking, the US government is bankrupt even if the government won’t admit what is obvious. But how would an actual bankruptcy proceeding go?

Progressive governments in the name of equity are calling for taxation of capital gains. They really are demanding destruction of capital through capital consumption.

With negative growth now falling to near –10 percent, money-supply contraction is now the largest we've seen since the Great Depression. 

Despite the soothing hot air from the White House and Fed officials, the financial system is becoming increasingly fragile and unstable. Maybe all of that intervention the past decade was not wise.

Modern culture is biased against those that are rich even while depending upon the wealth that successful entrepreneurs have created.

Last week NATO announced that it will open its first-ever Asia office in Japan. What next, NATO membership for Taiwan?