Mises Wire

Mark Thornton
The next economic crisis will be directly tied to the last economic crisis and the policies the Fed used to “solve” it. As such, it should be called the Bernanke-Yellen Crisis.
George Pickering
The world would be a better place if the Queen expanded her veto power as a check against Parliament.
John Mills

The central bank's expropriation of PrivatBank leaves many unanswered questions.

Joseph T. Salerno
With very little mainstream press coverage, the Danish government in May stated its intention to ban cash from its largest prisons.
Mises Institute
Sometimes, "it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another."
Frank Shostak
A falling money supply is not the cause of economic contractions. It is usually just a symptom of a larger problem resulting from money-creation out of thin air.
Zach Foster
Seven Cuban libertarians and activists with the Mises-Mambi Institute of Cuba were arrested on Friday morning.
Ryan McMaken
First it was "Russian hacking" as the excuse for a federal takeover of elections. Now its "voter fraud." The states should tell the feds to get lost.
Ryan McMaken
Many hold to a nostalgic view of the United States as a single nation once unified by a common culture. This was never true.
Douglas French
People really do experience a type of high when experiencing windfall profits. Does this play a role in central-bank-induced booms and busts?