Mises Wire

Obesity has skyrocketed since the government became involved in the food pyramid. 

The US is often criticized for supposedly offering a lower quality of life than Europe. But far more Europeans migrate to the US than the other way around. 

Let us see what happens under inflation, and why it happens.

The Dutch Republic transformed the fervor of predestination into faith in personal destiny — and the singularly capitalistic means of getting there.

WWI symbolized the triumph of militarism and nationalism over the all-too-brief flourishing of liberalism — and also sowed the seeds of fascism, socialism, and the Second World War.

It's true that the Fed doesn't directly set a target for money creation. But by setting interest-rate targets, the Fed adopts a de facto policy of money creation. 

Jesús Huerta de Soto is probably the most important Austro-libertarian thinker you're not reading.

Has China blown the biggest credit bubble in history?

Not unlike the United States, Nordic countries have mixed interventionist economies that nonetheless rely heavily on property rights and the private sector.

Workplace raids against employers of non-government-approved workers make a mockery of private property rights.