Mises Wire

It is unfortunate that a scholar as careful as Robert Skidelsky has chosen to downplay the historical reality of the failure of central banking.

Some members of Congress are pushing for new laws to make police a protected group in a way similar to "hate crime" legislation. 

It takes a lot of verbal acrobatics to conclude that Venezuela's woes are not due to it's extensive implementation of the socialist program. 

Restrained by both ideology and public sentiment, central banks were once kept from the sort of antics they now regularly indulge in.

The broken-window fallacy, under a hundred disguises, is the most persistent in the history of economics. It is more rampant now than at any time in the past.

The bummer about the euroskeptics in Italy is that their primary interest is making Italy's bloated public sector ever bigger. 

Marx was wrong about the basics of value and exchange — and thus was wrong about the relationship between owners and laborers.

Donald Trump's crusade against Iran is being helped along by his love affair with the Saudi Regime — and its army of lobbyists.

 What if there was another form of democracy right under our noses that allowed voting 24 hours a day, seven days a week?

A war for independence and a civil war can be two very different things.