Mises Wire
What Harry Potter Can Teach the Federal Reserve
Given the monetary dark arts being practiced around the world, I would much prefer my money in the hands of Gringotts goblin, than at the mercy of our Federal Reserve Chairman Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.
Mill Power Is Trump’s Card
Implicit in Trump's economic statements is Mill's (and the Austrians') central message that there is no need to ever worry about the level of consumption, because it will always naturally adapt itself to the level of production.
Mises: Politics and Liberty
Liberalism has no party flower and no party color, no party song and no party idols, no symbols and no slogans. It has the substance and the arguments.
Cash Banned, Freedom Gone
Europe continues to move toward banning physical cash. But, in spite of government claims, it's not about fighting crime. It's about economic control.
Dumb and Dumber – From Negative Interest Rates to Helicopter Money
If helicopter money is implemented, those who first gain the use of the new money may benefit by increasing consumption before prices rise, while others will see prices rise before they are able or willing to use the money. But the end result will be higher prices but no overall increase in welfare.
Rothbard’s Education: Free and Compulsory Now Available in French
Institut Coppet in France has recently made available a French translation of Murray Rothbard's Education: Free and Compulsory.
The Fed’s Firepower
Analogies involving cars and firepower are not appropriate for monetary policy. They propagate the idea that the Fed can carefully "steer" the economy or that they have some large, heterogeneous set of policy tools, when the Fed can really only do one thing: artificial credit expansion.
Economists as Modern Astrologers
Are modern economists pseudoscientists like the astrologers of old?
The European Union Is Anti-European
The modern drive to centralize European government and make a European superstate threatens to destroy what made Europe great in the first place.