Mises Wire

Europe must identify ways to limit their dependence on the US financial system – or else indeed be reduced to de facto-vassal status to DC.

Argentina is a warning, and administrations should take this as a serious signal before the scare turns into a widespread emerging market crisis

The bureaucrats at the IMF and other international bureaucracies actually want people to believe that bigger government means more prosperity.

The concluding phase of credit expansion before the credit crisis is now about to begin.

Is it possible to represent a constituency of people who hold varying and diverse opinions without betraying some of those same constituents?

We're in a boom period, but housing construction is scant — which is making housing less affordable.

Keynesism—the philosophy of big government spending, deficit financing, and continuous inflation—dominates nearly every government in the world.

Iowa's new restrictions on abortion offer the federal courts a new chance to take federalism and decentralization seriously. 

On Indian reservations in America, there is a sickening lack of economic opportunity partly because of a lack of political autonomy and private property. 

Civil war was inevitable — because Lincoln made sure it was inevitable.