Mises Wire

Jim Rickards, explores our current global currency wars, the rise of other global currencies, and the end games being explored by central banks today.

Strange centennial somehow makes sense in the world of Leviathan.

Even though it isn't a member of the European Union, Norway is a part of the Schengen Area in Europe which is the "borderless" zone of Europe where, until recently, people and goods could pass from country to country without border checks.

The true lessons of Thanksgiving are that private property, the market economy, and personal responsibility lead to prosperity, while government intervention makes us all poorer.

Everything in human life is organized around how we make decisions about three things: scarcity, property, and relationships.

President Obama has claimed that mass shootings do not occur in other countries. But, the data is clear that they do happen other places, and in places with stringent gun control laws. Worldwide, the state fails to keep its citizens safe.

Murray Rothbard reviewed an early work by Douglass North, The Economic Growth of the United States, 1790-1860.

Defenders of the Fed have long been at a loss to explain how anyone could ever oppose the Fed and its “stimulus” programs.