Mises Wire

The rise of the spacious low-density suburbs is very much a creation of the rise of big government after WWII and the New Deal. 

Household consumer credit continues to explode.

A good sign for the future: Fed economist attacks the Gold Standard.

The Netherlands and Germany have disaster plans for the Euro. Do you?

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Austrians gathered at the Southern Economic Association's annual convention in Atlanta recently. In attendance were several Mises Fellows, Mises Summer Fellows and even graduates of the Mises U.

Writing in Time magazine this week, Darlena Cunha compares the Ferguson riots of today — as well as the Los Angeles riots of 1992 — to the Boston Tea Party, arguing that such events are similar, well within the American tradition of social change.

Three cheers to Steve Baker, Conservative MP from Wycombe, for raising the delicate yet important of matter of fractional-reserve banking in Britain's House of Commons.

One World Trade Center recently opened in the wake of the October stock market seizure. Many more ultra skyscrapers will open in 2015 or will be under construction. What does this portend for economic bubble and the economy?

Zero Hedge reports that Marine LePen of the unexpectedly popular National Front Party in France is now demanding that the French central bank repatriate its gold.