Global Economy

In a reply to a recent mises.org weblog posting someone posted a challenge- Would anyone be so k

Trade deficits indeed present no problem as long as they get financed, writes Antony Mueller. 

The single most frustrating thing about being an economist, writes Robert Murphy, is that, 200+ years after its official birth, the field of economics hasn't convinced the rest of the world about even its most elementary propositions.

“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark,” the officer Marcellus claims in Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

As you may have heard, New York Senator Charles Schumer is on a campaign to slap a 27.5% tariff on all Chinese goods unless they significantly reva

A recent post lauded the UK as a homeland of free enterprise, based on some broad statistics about immigration.

Tom Lehman writes that the recent upward spike in gasoline prices (particularly those following natural disasters) has unleashed a torrent of theories.

Recorded at the Mises Institute, 7–8 October 2005. 

Recorded at the Mises Institute, 7–8 October 2005. 

My wife and I briefly visited China two years ago, as part of a cruise that started in Hong Kong and ended in Beijing.