Mises Wire

Iceland is not the only country coming up with "creative" ways to seize your wealth and income. The US is going down this path as well.

Our September-October issue of The Austrian covers this year's grim election circus.

As in much of the globe, central bankers in Britain are quickly replacing elected politicians as the most visible and powerful public officials.

The TTIP is the latest agreement in which the voters and taxpayers are prohibited from seeing the laws they will soon be forced to follow.

Not understanding how politics works will prove to be much more harmful than ignorance about how markets work.

People have a natural preference for having good things now instead of having them later. This is a problem for advocates of negative interest rates.

We are less than a month away from the election and it can not be over soon enough.

Repealing the 17th Amendment will not change the US Senate into a hotbed of decentralizers and free-marketers.

We allowed economics to be lost when we decided it was too complicated and too technical for intelligent laypeople to understand.

We can have free trade now by declaring it unilaterally. The motto should be: liberalize first, negotiate later.