Mises Wire

Central bankers are moving heedlessly toward what Ludwig von Mises called "crack-up boom."

The Blacklist's Raymond Reddington illustrates how private-sector criminals are often better than the public-sector kind.

In the UK, a national minimum wage was introduced in 1999. Things have been getting worse for young workers ever since.

Here in Brazil, free-market ideas have long been ridiculed and ignored, with disastrous results.

Murray Rothbard suggested that non-state insurgents were preferable to state-operated militaries. But can non-state armies ever succeed?

The UK's exit from the EU cannot and will not, in itself, trigger malinvestments and their subsequent inevitable liquidation through a bust.

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump represent variations of the same political theme.

Blind Robbery!, a new, easy-to-read book on money is a must-read for anyone who wishes to understand the damage our easy-money system is doing.

My hope is that my new book, The Problem with Socialism, will be viewed as a companion to Henry Hazlitt's classic Economics in One Lesson.

As Venezuela shows, living close to an international border can be an important lifeline. This illustrates the benefits of political decentralization.