Mises Wire

Everything from huge Keynesian "stimulus" policies to the war in Ukraine is dovetailing in a bout of stagflation: the simultaneous growth of inflation and unemployment.

The latest Keynesian money-printing and spending schemes are blowing up. It is time to hear what the Austrians have to say.

Trying to interpret the actions of Vladimir Putin or politics in Russia using Western narratives is likely to end in failure.

The presence of American companies in foreign nations was once seen as a sign of American superiority and an instrument of American cultural power. Not anymore.

The absence of market discipline in medicine cannot last. Governments and the medical cartel have successfully used fear to maintain control.  Fear has kept the masses from rising up. Until now. 

Nickel is a base metal the government used to replace silver. Since then, the government has inflated so much that even nickel is too valuable for US coinage.

Janet Yellen, who once was the nation's chief inflationist, now says that poor women need easy access to abortion because inflation might work a hardship on them.

While Fed policies openly try to make prices "stable," the central bank actually is creating economic instability and an impoverished economy.

It is impossible to grasp the idea of sound money without realizing that it was devised to protect civil liberties against state despotism.

Why did Barbados postslavery develop a more robust economy than Jamaica even though the people had similar ethnic backgrounds?