Mises Wire

While much attention has been directed toward Ben Bernanke's Nobel, the banking theories of Nobel winners Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig also need a second look.

The Gold Standard Restoration Act seeks to once again tie the US dollar to gold.

While Andrew Koppelman has made a good faith effort to understand and portray libertarianism, he makes some serious errors regarding Rothbardian thought. David Gordon helps to set him straight.

Florida's government promotes a "shared adversity" plan in which individuals and organizations have distant environmental problems imposed upon them.

Although the Left controls most of government and has corrupted most of our institutions, there are ways to fight back.

During September 2022, year-over-year (YOY) growth in the money supply was at 3.92 percent. That's down from August's rate of 4.54 percent, and down from September 2021's rate of 7.02 percent. 

What if the parallel communities we seek to build already exist in some form and our task is to identify and coalesce around those existing “nations within nations”?

Government economists "seasonally adjust" data in order to better respond with policy recommendations to deal with business cycles. The problem is that government causes the cycles.

While we speak of a desire for honest money, the larger problem is that the Federal Reserve System cannot coexist with an honest money regime.

Why is an inversion of the yield curve is indicative of a recession? It stems in part from the fact that both recessions and yield curve inversion follow sizable slowing in monetary inflation.