Global Economy

Lots of people are very confused about the prospect that oil reserves will dry up at some point in the future, writes Charles Featherstone.

The dollar has hit a new low in recent months on the international currency exchange. The blame is falling from most sectors of public opinion on our legislature, writes Katy Harwood Delay, with its debt spending at an all-time high.

The oft-heard tale about the sad plight of labor as versus capital is almost entirely false, writes Thomas Woods, author of a new book on American history.

It is the Mises Institute's great pleasure to introduce Carl Menger's 1871 book Principles of Economics to an online audience.

New studies and articles purport to solve the problem of poverty in America, writes George Reisman, but through the same old failed methods. 

Historians are fond of saying that the Progressive Era ended at the end of World War I, writes William Anderson. 

If socialists of old resented Pravda for giving them a bad name, writes Lew Rockwell, free enterprisers ought to feel the same about the Wall Street Journal's editorial page.

It was capitalism that finally ended the Great Depression, writes Tom DiLorenzo, not FDR's hair-brained cartel, wage-increasing, unionizing, and welfare state expanding policies. 

A basic understanding of the elementary economics of unionism, writes Tom DiLorezno, shows why violence against competitors has always been an inherent feature of unionism.

Everything we have heard from conventional wisdom regarding the minimum wage is false, writes Shawn Ritenour.