Mises Wire

Even if a section of the US were to today secede for some noble reason (i.e., not slavery), the outcome would still likely be invasion and war. 

Everything is dandy if borrowers make their payments on their increasingly unaffordable homes. But will unemployment remain low forever?

Germany's Augsburg played a key role in the rise of the modern marketplace in Europe. 

With ultra-low interest rates already in place, Europe has nowhere to go when the slowdown intensifies. 

Despite harsh penalties for drug dealers, China's numbers on drug use are not significantly different from those in the US. 

"Project Labor Agreements" makes government infrastructure spending even more expensive and inefficient. 

America's thriving energy sector has boomed in part thanks to inexpensive foreign steel. 

Broadening state powers to declare people "mentally ill" is a dangerous proposition. 

The only real cure for too much debt is an orderly process of liquidation. No bailouts. No subsidies. No taxpayer involvement.

"False consciousness" has long been a building block behind the Marxist drive to destroy human rights.