Global Economy

Ireland has tried to attract businesses by undercutting the tax rates of its neighbors. That is a good thing wherever it occurs.

Free-trade deals — which are more about increasing government power than trade — are in retreat in the face of Brexit and Trump.

Investors are not cooperating with the Bank of England's efforts to drive Brits to riskier investments.

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was impeached this morning. Is there any hope the country might turn to freedom and free markets?

We are living through "The Great Monetary Experiment" and no one knows exactly how it will end.

Pension funds, savings accounts, and insurance funds — all essential middle class tools for savings — are seeing their yields dry up.

Central bankers have become enablers to debt-addicted governments.

Government is not a wealth-creating entity, and more stimulus will not help the economy. In fact, more stimulus will hurt the wealth creation process.

Many of Venezuela's woes stem from the Venezuelan state's reliance on price controls to enact its socialist goals. Famine has resulted.

Mainstream economics is fraying at both ends. It is vague, and lacks precision. Austrian economics, meanwhile, is rooted in concrete human action.