Mises Wire

Rather than focus too much on lamenting politics and the state, we should be heartened by how far we've come — and go forward confidently.

Alarmed by successful entrepreneurship and low prices for consumers, government seeks, yet again, to shut down small businesses.

The claims about a "moneyless" utopian village in India turn out to be false. No one with an understanding of economics should be surprised.

Governments hate decentralization, and politicians like Hillary Clinton hate it too.

Democracy virtually assures that only bad and dangerous men will ever rise to the top of government.

The national debt and cutting government spending simply are not topics the voters care about anymore.

Economists Stephen Cohen and Bradford DeLong are spouting an unfortunate amount of enthusiasm for Alexander Hamilton's corporatist economics.

This is the main fallacy of term limits: it presumes the problem is the people in government, and not the government itself.

An adoption of digital currencies by central banks could bring the next generation of central bankers more power than their predecessors imagined.

The US Dept. of Justice wants to extract billions in fines from Deutsche Bank. German taxpayers may then be on the hook for the inevitable bailout.