Mises Wire

Venezuelans are defenseless against a government that runs roughshod over their civil liberties and economic livelihood.

Argentina has all the ingredients to be a global leading economy, but current policy makes the country a promise that always disappoints. 

100 years ago, coordination among central banks was engineered to speed up the renunciation of the gold standard, and greatly enlarge the freedom of all central banks to inflate money supplies.

One of the world's most militaristic Islamic dictatorships — Saudi Arabia — lobbies heavily in Washington to increase US military spending — and the Saudis are rewarded handsomely for their efforts.

Paul Krugman is now claiming the fact the US is not a 100% free-market economy justifies ever-higher taxes on "the rich."

From unemployment, to immigration, to banking, many of Angela Merkel's policies have planted ticking time bombs in the German economy and in German politics.

If we all still lived like cavemen, we'd have hardly any inequality at all. But that's not exactly something to aspire to.

The deadline is drawing near for students to submit a proposal to present their papers to the ASSC 2019.

Marginal tax rates in the 1950s and 1960s don't reflect how much wealthy taxpayers actually paid in taxes. They paid far less than Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez thinks.

Federal workers are paid so much more (17 percent more) than private sector workers, they could lose almost nine weeks of pay, never receive back pay, and still be better paid than their private-sector colleagues.