Mises Wire

Louis Rouanet

Marine Le Pen has a long way to go before she can become the French Donald Trump.

Tho Bishop
Given Florida's political reality, it is not surprising to see lobbyist pressure pre-empt patient care. It doesn’t make it any less sickening.
Mises Institute
Instead of taxes being "the price we pay for civilization," taxes are an unnecessary burden on the prosperity of society.
C.Jay Engel

Robert Kaplan on Thursday weighed in on 2017's three rate-hikes and the coming balance sheet reduction effort.

Mises Institute
Tatsuya Iwakura — translator of many works by Mises and Rothbard into Japanese — has completed two new translations now available on Amazon.
Frank Shostak
Central banks have no way of knowing the "right" amount of money-supply growth. But, markets can work to suppress growth in un-backed paper currency.
Douglas French
Because Fannie and Freddie weren’t allowed to fail, it has taken years for these wards of the state to smell the delinquent-mortgage coffee.
David Gordon
Jeffrey Sachs rightly sees the problems of state interventionism in foreign policy. But he then fails to see the same holds on domestic policy.
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
The higher on the socialist hierarchy you look, the more you will find people who are too incompetent to do the job they are supposed to do
Shaun Bradley
The auto-loan market has recently ballooned, but the delinquency data raises questions about how much longer these spending habits can last.