Mises Wire
The Fed’s Easy-Money Policies Aren’t Helping Income Growth
The Fed's policies over the past decade have resulted in a rapidly widening wealth and income inequality.
Trump’s Space Force
Trump has proposed the "Space Force" as a brand new and costly military branch and bureaucracy. The reaction to his plan helps illustrate the complexity of military politics in Washington.
If Imports Were Truly Bad for an Economy, Military Blockades Would Not Exist
If modern claims about the harm of free trade are true, then Lincoln must have been helping the Confederacy with his military blockade.
Nordhaus and Romer
The 2018 Nobel Prize in economics has gone to Yale̵
Nobel Committee Pushes Environmental Regulation with its Latest Winners
Unfortunately, the economics Nobel this year neglects the problems at the heart of the State — the government failures that pollute and impoverish.
Can Seasonal Adjustments Help Us Understand the Economy?
All the sophisticated quantitative methods by themselves can't help us understand the cause-and-effect of what's behind the boom-and-bust cycle.
The Damage Done by the Kavanaugh Hearings
No one is discussing Kavanaugh's awful record on the Bill of Rights. Meanwhile, the media is sending a terrible message to women.
Austrians vs. Market Monetarists on the Housing Bubble
The Austrian story fits the facts of the housing boom—and bust—much better than the preferred narrative of Market Monetarists.
Brazil’s Coming Election: Can the Nation Embrace a Free Economy?
Without fundamental reforms towards a market economy, the future of Brazil looks bleak.