Mises Wire

Fannie Mae is helping ensure easy money flows to apartments. That means multifamily prices are heading skyward like asset prices overall.

The saddest part of this whole manufactured crisis is that it should make absolutely no difference to us whether Russia controls Ukraine. How is that a threat to the United States?

Under PM Mario Draghi, the Italian government has issued new edicts designed to make life even more difficult for anyone who doesn't comply with every aspect of the state's covid regime.

Totalitarianism in all its forms—including, of course, National Socialism—ought to be condemned. But why do the Soviet totalitarians get so much sympathy?

Blockchain technology might be useful in forcing banks to be more transparent in how they handle reserves. 

Like new money, knowledge spreads unevenly through the economy in a kind of Cantillon effect. Here's what that means for different market actors

The US benefits in no way from a war with Russia. Fortunately, many Americans are less than enthusiastic.

"I get the impression that these people … believe the threat of inflation pales in comparison to climate change and racial inequities."

Does free banking encourage fraud by tolerating fractional reserves? Here's a summary of the debate.

As much as we may wish to substitute government edicts for markets, the fact is no amount of government control can overturn the realities of economic law.