Mises Wire

Since we are now experiencing unprecedented manipulation of markets, it only follows that we're risking an unprecedented collapse.

The more hard-core socialist the system is, the worse its problems.

The Defense Authorization bill should remain notorious. It represents most of what is wrong with Washington.

States are happy with physical cash if they can use technology to make it traceable.

Texas is moving ahead with its plan to build an independent gold storage facility where ordinary people can have accounts.

Some US states are taking steps to offer their residents more freedom in the money they use.

The choice between various ways of ‘measuring’ economic variations (and gauging their causes from these measurements) is arbitrary from an economic point of view, and becomes a largely political endeavor.

The number of faults that have been alleged against capitalism are without limit. Few have any merit.

Changing the demographic makeup of central bank officials is tantamount to slapping a food label on a box of rat poison in an effort to make it safe to consume.

The recent lackluster jobs data suggests we've reached the limits of monetary policy.