Mises Wire

Like Bentham's panopticon, modern cancel culture is built upon fear and online bullying, making people police their own thoughts.

With the government foolishly handicapping the oil and gas industries and pushing other alternatives, the future is not very bright.

While Elizabeth Warren and others are waving the bloody shirt for more bank regulation, the problem is that bank regulations themselves are creating financial instability.

A billion here and a billion there starts to add up to real money—we are now talking about real money when it comes to Fed losses.

Even a partial weakening of the dollar's global demand will limit the US regime's ability to throw its weight around internationally. Yet Washington is unwilling to do what's necessary to prevent it. 

Violent crime is on the rise in Canada, and its progressive democracy is helpless to stop it. Further empowerment of the state makes things worse.

While progressives are claiming the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank was due to poor regulation, the real problem is the easy money policy of the Fed.

Political money is unsound money, and while civilization cannot exist without sound money, it can do without predatory government.

Democratic politicians and supporters are cheering the Trump indictment, but the entire process has been so politicized that its legitimacy is easily called into question.

Robert Mugabe, once president for life of Zimbabwe, became infamous for hyperinflation and political repression. Today, he is becoming the patron saint of central banking.