Mises Wire

The whole point of national self-determination is to get top-down coercive power out of the picture.

What was initially thought of as a project to unite Europe into one common market has mutated into a completely different entity.

The EU is a case par excellence illustrating the failure of economic interventionism. Britain would be wise to leave it behind.

A drive for more centralized power is underway everywhere. From the UK's "Remain" campaign to gun control in the US.

This new issue features important contributions to monetary theory and policy, a novel program for re-establishing gold money, and much more.

In Venezuela — and everywhere the state controls the economy — the political elites enjoy luxury while the people do much less well.

Elizabeth Warren wants to help low-income and powerless people. However, she supports interventions that will hurt the people she wants to help.

Henry Hazlitt describes "the open conspiracy" among politicians to refuse to address the national debt.

The Bank of England warns of financial panic if Britain votes to leave EU.

The Fed admits the jobs data is worsening, and sees no way to raise rates without torpedoing the tepid recovery.