Mises Wire

In the wake of Brexit and other referendum votes that go against the leftist political orthodoxy, elites have decided democracy is a problem.

Our September-October issue of The Austrian covers this year's grim election circus.

Iceland is not the only country coming up with "creative" ways to seize your wealth and income. The US is going down this path as well.

Putting the finishing touches on the world's largest building in China

Do central banks have a plan? Do they know what they are doing? The BBC wonders, and Jeff Deist provides some of the answers.

The TTIP is the latest agreement in which the voters and taxpayers are prohibited from seeing the laws they will soon be forced to follow.

As in much of the globe, central bankers in Britain are quickly replacing elected politicians as the most visible and powerful public officials.

Not understanding how politics works will prove to be much more harmful than ignorance about how markets work.

We are less than a month away from the election and it can not be over soon enough.

People have a natural preference for having good things now instead of having them later. This is a problem for advocates of negative interest rates.