Mises Wire

Mark Thornton
The next economic crisis will be directly tied to the last economic crisis and the policies the Fed used to “solve” it. As such, it should be called the Bernanke-Yellen Crisis.
George Pickering
The world would be a better place if the Queen expanded her veto power as a check against Parliament.
John Mills

The central bank's expropriation of PrivatBank leaves many unanswered questions.

Zach Foster
Seven Cuban libertarians and activists with the Mises-Mambi Institute of Cuba were arrested on Friday morning.
Joseph T. Salerno
With very little mainstream press coverage, the Danish government in May stated its intention to ban cash from its largest prisons.
Mises Institute
Sometimes, "it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another."
Frank Shostak
A falling money supply is not the cause of economic contractions. It is usually just a symptom of a larger problem resulting from money-creation out of thin air.
Christopher Westley
Public television keeps alive the idea that disasters caused by government bureaucrats will be solved if only we get the "right" people to run things.
John Tamny
So while the left’s support of the minimum wage is offensive, the right’s fight against what’s offensive perhaps explains why we still have wage floors.
Friedrich A. Hayek
Though the descent of Keynesian doctrine from intellectual respectability can be denied no longer, it still gravely threatens sensible monetary policy.