Mises Wire

Keynes once suggested that "the Government should have people dig up holes and then fill them up.” The UBI is the same thing, but we just skip the digging.

Since 2008, China has amassed a mountain of debt, and continues to operate countless "zombie" companies and money-losing factories.

The Fed and the ECB have taken two different paths since the 2008 crisis. Here's what you need to know.

The Bank of Canada's official mandate to promote the “the economic and financial well-being of Canadians,” isn't compatible with the Bank's real mandate which is apparently to look out for the good of a small number of powerful banks.

The Green New Deal blames cattle for creating too many greenhouse emissions. Presumably, the solution lies in allowing the federal government to dictate the number of cows allowed on farms and ranches. This wouldn't be the first time we've seen such a scheme.

MMT boils down to government using its monopoly over money to dictate and control production, obliterate free markets, suppress private enterprise, and impoverish the people.

The Fed is prepared to squeeze out what little is left of the free market forces in the debt market. The Fed wants full control so it can do "whatever it takes" to keep interest rates from rising above its very-low targets.

By creating money out of thin air, central banks repeatedly create bubble industries that must inevitably be liquidated.

Millennials are the focus of everyone’s attention in the housing business.

Today would have been the 93rd birthday of Murray Rothbard, a creative genius and champion of liberty.