Mises Wire

Real wages are going down. Debt is skyrocketing. The economy has only partly recovered from an economic disaster. This isn't the "historic growth" Joe Biden wants you to think it is.

Sometimes people—even other economists—are incredulous that the Austrians deny the possibility of interpersonal utility comparisons.

Wokism and US foreign policy should not be viewed as isolated phenomena but rather inextricably linked concepts given the US’s universalist foreign policy modus operandi.

For the covid despots, anyone who objected to government commands was the equivalent of a heretic who must be condemned or banished from every place except the cemetery.

That something "works" isn't a license for a regime to do whatever it wants. But given that lockdowns don't even work—and are morally repugnant—how can they be justified? 

California politicians say "gun owners should cover the costs of gun violence." Apparently, holding actual criminals responsible for their own misdeeds is too much work in California.

Fannie Mae is helping ensure easy money flows to apartments. That means multifamily prices are heading skyward like asset prices overall.

Even if the Fed finally delivers the tapering and starts raising rates, it won’t get any further than it did back in the last anemic rate hike (2015–18) and tiny balance sheet shrinking (2017–19) cycles.

As tens of thousands of trucks began entering the capital with millions of supporters behind them, the “brave” Canadian prime minister had fled the city and shuffled off to an undisclosed location.

Bernanke’s initial moves to reverse QE were memorably beaten back by the so-called taper tantrum, so it's hard to see how the Fed will now proceed with aggressive QT.