Mises Wire

The Bank of England apparently wants to incorporate blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies into the central bankers’ tool kit.

Gentrification gets bad press. It would appear that the gentrifier (he who engages in gentrification) is a malign exploiter, a bully, someone who takes advantage of the weak and the poor. And these are the nice things said about him.

All socialist states, including democratic ones, demand obedience and conformity in their economic and cultural diktats. And there is no kind and gentle way of snuffing out resistance.

People usually recoil at the idea of trading babies for money, but in the wake of Soviet deprivation, easy-adoption laws helped countless orphans in Romania.

“Corruption is a regular effect of interventionism,” Ludwig von Mises once wrote, and we see this principle at work today in the European Union.

The Jeddah Tower in Saudi Arabia remains listed for “completion” in 2020. Will its completion trigger a new Skyscraper Curse?

Here's how to tell the Austrian approach on money apart from the views of other schools of thought.

A just society is not some game of chess where we can move around each person like they exist to carry out the goals of "the people."

In order to confuse matters, much of the true debt incurred by the federal government each year is simply declared to not be part of the deficit.

The average California state government worker earns 23 percent more in total compensation than their similarly skilled and educated private-sector counterpart.