Mises Wire

With growth now falling near or below negative 10 percent for the second month in a row, money-supply contraction is the largest we've seen since the Great Depression. 

Leftists claim that developing nations are poor because Western nations once practiced colonialism. The truth is that empires do not foster economic growth.

How can a bank “create money out of thin air”? We must enter the magical kingdom of “fractional-reserve banking,” where deposits are turned into loans, loans are turned into money, and so on, to find out.

The Federal Trade Commission is heavily scrutinizing the proposed merger between Microsoft and Activision. Why? Because Sony is against it.

As Washington cheers the so-called budget deal, the real problems loom. Liquidity issues are next.

One of the standard doctrines of mainstream economics is that the assumptions of a model do not have to reflect reality. Austrian economics vociferously disagrees.

What happens next will depend heavily on what the regime will feel is necessary to buoy public support for the regime and its current ruling party. 

The State of California, unable to unionize fast food workers, now is trying to create workers councils that will set labor policies for fast food restaurants. This will not end well.

In today's progressive climate, sexual assault charges are easy to make and hard to refute, even when they are demonstrably false.

Congress is silent – or compliant – as we lurch forward toward disaster for no discernable US strategic goal. Biden – or whoever is actually running the show – is forging straight ahead.