Mises Wire

Ryan McMaken

The Fed's FOMC has affirmed that it may raise interest rates as some point in the future if conditions warrant such a change. 

Joseph T. Salerno

“So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late.”  (Bob Dylan, All Along the Watchtower, 1967)

Randall G. Holcombe

Here’s a back-of-the-envelope calculation on how much the mandate to require ethanol in motor fuel costs consumers, and benefits farmers.

Ryan McMaken

The Loyola economics club hosted a debate between economics professor Walter Block and law professor Bill Quigley on the minimum wage. The debate was held on 2/24/15.

Ryan McMaken

The weak dollar was a subsidy for the oil industry, but as Hazlitt noted, they make “the industries in which we are comparatively inefficient larger, and the industries in which we are comparatively efficient smaller.”

Ryan McMaken

There are many risks to the dollar out there, but a more valuable euro isn't one of them. 

David Gordon

John Denson's A Century of War has appeared in German translation and has sold 4,000 copies.

Ryan McMaken

The BBC reports the government of Iceland has announced it is no longer seeking EU membership for the North Atlantic state.

Mark Thornton

Skyscrapers Selling at Superlative Prices