Mises Wire

Central bankers think the official statistics are overcounting inflation and undercounting productivity.

US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew has been threatening the Chinese government over its inexpensive steel exports.

We can apply economic analysis to explain cultural transformation, and a particularly important example is fiat money.

Ben Bernanke is not the savior who rescued the global economy; he is the clueless fool who plunged a poisoned knife in its back.

Economic growth is about transforming capital in useful ways. It is not about just making more stuff.

They have mismanaged the economy and I am afraid the worst is yet to come.

Spain is prepping for a new election this month, and there is little sign of a national desire for freedom and free markets.

In our proper condemnation of scientism in the study of man, we should not make the mistake of dismissing science as well.

Seventy years later, the same issues continue to arise today due to the same fundamentally flawed ideas of socialism.

Every human action is undertaken in the hope of gaining at least some psychic profit. Profit need not be measured in dollars.