Mises Wire

Ryan McMaken

The fact that the US government can tax citizens directly makes the act of state secession far more difficult.

David Stockman

During Friday's bloodbath a CNBC anchor lady assured her audience that Brexit wasn't a big sweat. That's because it is a political crisis, not a financial one.

Jonathan Newman

John Tamny is right that we don't need the Fed. Unfortunately, his new book on the Fed goes off course while explaining why.

Peter G. Klein

Peter Klein examines the role and work of Austrian scholars like Mises, Kirzner, Hayek, and others in explaining how entrepreneurship works.

Sascha Klocke

Politicians like Juncker and Merkel speak of the EU as if it were a marriage or a family, to which one is bound by some transcendental duty.

Frank Shostak

The Bank of England has been less reckless than the ECB. But both the UK and the eurozone economies are fragile thanks to loose monetary policy.

Ryan McMaken

The ballooning size of legislative districts in the US is just one more illustration of how the United States is too large.

Ryan McMaken

Large parliaments with small district sizes and easy access to legislators are preferable to the EU system of huge constituencies and little access.

Ron Paul

The act of exiting is liberating. We should make a longer list of those things we would like to get out of.

Troy Vincent

Brussels is doing all it can to make the UK pay for wanting to leave the EU. This only further illustrates why exit from the EU is a good idea.