Mises Wire

Ryan McMaken

Europhiles like Angela Merkel are panicking over the idea that the UK and the US might reduce taxes and provide tax havens outside the EU.

Jeff Deist
Bannon's notion that the GOP conference is full of ideologues, much less libertarian ideologues, is just flat false.
Tho Bishop
Capitalism cannot give consumers taste, but it does give them choice.
Andrew Syrios
Over the course of approximately six hours, the Left in the United States made a spectacular, 180 degree turn on federalism and states’ rights.
Jonathan Newman
Modern monetary policy: a trillion dollars of housing debt has been replaced by a trillion dollars (or more) of student and auto loan debt.
Jp Cortez
According to one Idaho legislator, gold is useless as an inflation hedge because its price has increased 4,000% since the 1860s.
C.Jay Engel

Every year the Fed remits its profits to the US Treasury every year. A drop in Fed profits means less for the US Treasury.

Laurence M. Vance
The right to discriminate in how one uses one's property is not a religious issue. It's nothing more than a basic issue of property rights.
Mises Institute
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C.Jay Engel

Mark Carney seeks to defend the trustworthiness of the banking industry. He misses the systematic problem of central banking.