Mises Wire

Investors are not cooperating with the Bank of England's efforts to drive Brits to riskier investments.

Floridians could end up facing unnecessary hardship, because its state government does not understand basic economics.

In Brazil, street food is an important source of income for poor households. So why is the government always interfering in the street-food economy?

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was impeached this morning. Is there any hope the country might turn to freedom and free markets?

In 2016, candidates are ignoring the issue of social benefits and federal spending. Experience suggests opposing social spending is political suicide.

Like Mises, economist Robert Lucas understood that realities of human action make it impossible to treat economics as if it were a physical science.

The Fed has realized it is in need of damage control when it comes to its reputation among much of the American public.

Politicians and elites viscerally hate any form of tax competition — at least for the plebes.

Obamacare's latest failures show government-run health care does not serve the interests of those supposedly "benefiting" from it.

There is no bright line that divides the allegedly "free-market" US from the "socialist" welfare states of Western Europe.