Mises Wire

Alasdair Macleod
The threat of a US-UK trade pact is very bad news for the EU, but Trump's more mercantilist side spells trouble for the US and much of the world.
Frank Shostak
The usefulness of money depends on it having some connection to physical money. Reducing money to a digitized abstraction would be a disaster.
C.Jay Engel
Obama is the first president since Hoover to not have a single year of over 3% GDP growth.
Mises Institute
As expected, the first week of the Trump administration has brought a mix of good and bad.
Ryan McMaken
Experience suggests that advertising and propaganda aren't as powerful as we assume them to be. This has both economic and political implications.
C.Jay Engel

Tim Duy takes to Bloomberg to warn the world about the possibility of "hard-money" advocates getting into the Fed.

C.Jay Engel
Tim Duy takes to Bloomberg to warn the world about the possibility of “hard-money” advocates getting into the Fed.
Louis Rouanet
Political decentralization is “the essence of the spirit of Europe.” It is what made room for the merchant to trade and for the worker to innovate.
Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn's timeless essay "The Cultural Background of Ludwig von Mises" is now easier to read.