Mises Wire

The national debt and cutting government spending simply are not topics the voters care about anymore.

Democracy virtually assures that only bad and dangerous men will ever rise to the top of government.

This is the main fallacy of term limits: it presumes the problem is the people in government, and not the government itself.

An adoption of digital currencies by central banks could bring the next generation of central bankers more power than their predecessors imagined.

Frightened by an unstable economy and low returns, savers are saving even more and frustrating the plans of central bankers.

The US Dept. of Justice wants to extract billions in fines from Deutsche Bank. German taxpayers may then be on the hook for the inevitable bailout.

When government creates special demographic categories for groups of people, the effects on public policy can be far reaching.

The federal government is using the threat of foreign hackers as an excuse to further nationalize elections in the United States.

No functioning government in Spain for the last 10 months, and the country is prospering.

High-frequency trading is not the nefarious scheme policymakers would have you believe it is. It serves a real purpose in the marketplace.