Mises Wire

When police are trained to regard the citizens as military opponents, bad things happen.

In the UK, a national minimum wage was introduced in 1999. Things have been getting worse for young workers ever since.

The Blacklist's Raymond Reddington illustrates how private-sector criminals are often better than the public-sector kind.

Central bankers are moving heedlessly toward what Ludwig von Mises called "crack-up boom."

Even if consumer protection regulation is motivated by good intentions, it inevitably undermines competition and consumer welfare.

Here in Brazil, free-market ideas have long been ridiculed and ignored, with disastrous results.

Murray Rothbard suggested that non-state insurgents were preferable to state-operated militaries. But can non-state armies ever succeed?

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump represent variations of the same political theme.

The UK's exit from the EU cannot and will not, in itself, trigger malinvestments and their subsequent inevitable liquidation through a bust.

Blind Robbery!, a new, easy-to-read book on money is a must-read for anyone who wishes to understand the damage our easy-money system is doing.