Mises Wire

Frank Shostak
In a free economy, entrepreneurs don't need economy-wide data to make good business decisions. Macro data really only serves the needs of government.
Ron Paul
What gives any country the right to determine who rules someone else?
Jonathan Newman
Monetary policy has become unhinged since the most recent financial crisis and the Fed’s balance sheet has exploded to unprecedented levels.
Jonathan Newman

Monetary policy has become unhinged since the most recent financial crisis and the Fed’s balance sheet has exploded to unprecedented levels.

C.Jay Engel

The Fed's 2017 narrative is balance sheet adjustment. But how far can they get without a market protest?

Gary Galles
When they ignore basic economics, special interest groups sacrifice the well-being of their future members in exchange for short-term gains.
Edgar Ortiz
Although he did so to a lesser degree than some others, President Rafael Correa in Ecuador embraced "21st-Century socialism." How has Ecuador fared?
Mises Institute
The late Murray Rothbard thought war and peace was the most important libertarian issue.
C.Jay Engel

The ECB's Peter Praet's recent comment on the stability of the financial system reveals a remarkable blindness.

Louis Rouanet
Manipulating what sort of money people use — and how they use it — has a long history among meddling government planners.