Mises Wire

97% of consensus economists didn’t see the last recession the quarter before it started. Even worse, 77% didn’t see a recession when it was already happening!

Amazon Smile is increasing the donation rate 10x from October 29 – November 2.

The public debate of inequality is a muddle of bad assumptions and a disregard for how global poverty has plummeted — thanks to markets — in recent decades.

If the US administration truly wishes to "To Make America Great Again," there is no way around addressing the Fed.

In coming years, interest payments on debt will increasingly pull money away from programs like Medicare and military spending.

Private debts are privately paid. Public debts are paid by the taxpayer. 

Congress has no small part in the endless cycle of debt, spending, and rising bureaucratic power.

Some Marxists have been quite explicit about their desire to apply the Marxist idea of exploitation to nearly every facet of society.

Kerkorian was an eighth-grade dropout who would go on to earn billions, and epitomized Mises's idea of the entrepreneur.

What politicians and pundits of the Clinton variety really want is a return to the days of the Era of Consensus of the 1950s and 60s when uncivil opposition was unthinkable.