Mises Wire

During Friday's bloodbath a CNBC anchor lady assured her audience that Brexit wasn't a big sweat. That's because it is a political crisis, not a financial one.

The fact that the US government can tax citizens directly makes the act of state secession far more difficult.

The Bank of England has been less reckless than the ECB. But both the UK and the eurozone economies are fragile thanks to loose monetary policy.

The ballooning size of legislative districts in the US is just one more illustration of how the United States is too large.

Politicians like Juncker and Merkel speak of the EU as if it were a marriage or a family, to which one is bound by some transcendental duty.

Peter Klein examines the role and work of Austrian scholars like Mises, Kirzner, Hayek, and others in explaining how entrepreneurship works.

The act of exiting is liberating. We should make a longer list of those things we would like to get out of.

Large parliaments with small district sizes and easy access to legislators are preferable to the EU system of huge constituencies and little access.

Brussels is doing all it can to make the UK pay for wanting to leave the EU. This only further illustrates why exit from the EU is a good idea.

This week, the EU suggested that it would no longer allow English as an official language, and the Irish will speak Gaelic instead.