Mises Wire

Earlier this year, it was assumed that, this year global growth would drive a recovery in oil prices from their 2014 crash. We are still waiting.

Both Trump and Clinton agree the US government needs to spend billions more on infrastructure. More spending is not the boon they think it is.

The Fed is busy coming up with new ways to "stimulate" and manipulate the economy.

It's become apparent that central bankers are afraid to do anything except hold rates steady, or, in the case of the UK, push rates even lower.

Money supply growth reached a three-year high in July.

Empirical data is useful as historical information. But to interpret the data, we require good economic theory.

In the wake of government's do-nothing stance on preventing phone scams, there's a new private app for blocking abusive phone calls.

Threatened by the existence of private digital currencies, central banks are looking to create some of their own.

When it comes to the effects of taxation, Krugman the economist appears to disagree with Krugman the New York Times columnist.

The development of capitalism consists in everyone's having the right to serve the customer better and/or more cheaply.