Mises Wire

Ryan McMaken

April was yet another month of declining real wages, and was the twenty-fifth month in a row during which growth in average hourly earnings failed to keep up with price inflation.

Stephen Anderson

Economically speaking, the US government is bankrupt even if the government won’t admit what is obvious. But how would an actual bankruptcy proceeding go?

David Gordon

David Edmonds has made Derek Parfit’s ideas accessible to a wide audience at last.

Lipton Matthews

Modern culture is biased against those that are rich even while depending upon the wealth that successful entrepreneurs have created.

Douglas French

Despite the soothing hot air from the White House and Fed officials, the financial system is becoming increasingly fragile and unstable. Maybe all of that intervention the past decade was not wise.

Ryan McMaken

With negative growth now falling to near –10 percent, money-supply contraction is now the largest we've seen since the Great Depression. 

George Ford Smith

In 1948, Ludwig Erhardt rescued a German economy that was in shambles simply by invoking free markets and currency reform. Our economy needs its Rothbard moment.

Frank Shostak

Monetarists believe there is an optimum growth rate of money. However, a fiat money system itself is unstable, so there is no optimum growth rate.

Ron Paul

Last week NATO announced that it will open its first-ever Asia office in Japan. What next, NATO membership for Taiwan?

Michael Rectenwald

Tucker Carlson has rankled the ruling elites for many years. But was his interview with Robert Kennedy Jr. a bridge too far?