Mises Wire

Why did Barbados postslavery develop a more robust economy than Jamaica even though the people had similar ethnic backgrounds?

With the shortage have come the usual half-baked bromides about "evil corporations" and how they aren't regulated enough. The real fault lies with welfare statists, Trump-style protectionists, and the FDA. 

Popular economic wisdom says central banks can counter harmful effects of inflation by raising interest rates. Unfortunately, such moves carry their own forms of misallocation of resources and capital.

Enforceable and accepted private property rights can help bring some solutions to the acrimonious debate over transgenderism and transgender rights.

Since the early 1960s, African nations have gained political independence from colonial powers, but the monetary colonialism of fiat money continues.

With inflation still near forty-year highs, this is the thirteenth month in a row during which earnings have fallen behind price inflation.

The Keynesian "stimulus" policies were suppose to reinvigorate the economy. Instead, they have brought stagflation.

Sanctions are promoted as a response to international aggression. Yet, sanctions themselves are a form of aggression that, like war, usually have unhappy endings.

Most people—and especially most economists—not only are ignorant of what money actually is, but how and why it became part of our economy in the first place.

In a recent speech, President Joe Biden blamed inflation on businesses raising prices and told them that they needed to lower their business costs -- but boost wages. You do the math.