Mises Wire

It's fitting in the week leading up to our American celebration of secession, that we applaud Britain for their own separation.

The Sacrifice of July 1, 1916. The first day of the Battle of the Somme was a human disaster.

Paul Gottfried has written a scholarly and insightful analysis of the concept of fascism.

If we were to claim independence from the modern-day royalty of the beltway, the markets will ensure better holidays in the future.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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