Mises Wire

The most popular measure of economic growth is GDP. However, GDP movement is driven by changes in the money supply, not real economic factors.

We must fight to ensure that the Iraq War and its supporters are never rehabilitated by historians or pundits. Nor should the war, its lies, and its crimes ever be forgotten.

If the Fed is serious about bringing down price inflation, it's difficult to see how the Fed can do that while also guaranteeing more liquidity to an obviously fragile banking system.

Mises had hoped that democracy would lead to free societies after World War II ended. He did not foresee the illiberal turn in the West in the last decade.

Austrian business cycle theory points out that easy money leads to malinvestments. Once easy money disappears, the crash begins. Time to clean up malinvested assets.

Austrian economics is not dry theory. It helps us make sense of our world and shows that exchange and production have a place in our moral universe.

While the Fed and the Biden administration try to assure Americans that their banks are safe and secure, the numbers tell a different story.

While the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade have been well documented, people other than slave traders and slaveholders benefitted from it, with some surprising results.

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