Mises Wire

During September 2019, year-over-year growth in the money supply was at 3.10 percent. That's up from August's rate of 1.85 percent, and was down from September 2018's rate of 4.38 percent.

When asked why they do not just give their money away voluntarily, some billionaires suddenly decide cooperation isn't all that great after all.

Let the WTO and all its agreements go already! We cannot salvage something that was broken from the start. 

Poor incentives create poor outcomes, and government subsidies for higher education institutions have created poor incentives in spades.

In his new book The Bitcoin Standard, Saifedean Ammous displays a fine understanding of money, and also a good grasp of how currencies like Bitcoin could revolutionize the government-dominated banking sector.

Thanks to a loosening of rent controls in Toronto, finding a place to live will become easier for a lot of people. 

The shift toward empire has brought about the destruction of American liberty and privacy here at home. That’s what the surveillance, torture, and indefinite detentions of American citizens are all about — to supposedly protect us from the dangers produced by U.S. intervention abroad.

Austrian-school economics is value-free and is not necessarily in favor of laissez-faire. But the Austrian view of markets and market power tends to push one in the laissez-faire direction.

Politicians, who claim that a week in politics is the long term, fail to see any problem.

Economic growth comes from the accumulation of real wealth — which is necessary to produce more goods and services.