Mises Wire

Strange centennial somehow makes sense in the world of Leviathan.

Even though it isn't a member of the European Union, Norway is a part of the Schengen Area in Europe which is the "borderless" zone of Europe where, until recently, people and goods could pass from country to country without border checks.

Republicans and conservative think tanks are apparently convinced that the key to improving the Federal Reserve is to create a "rules-based" monetary policy. But, as is so often the case with economics, things are much more complicated than they seem.

Jim Rickards, explores our current global currency wars, the rise of other global currencies, and the end games being explored by central banks today.

The true lessons of Thanksgiving are that private property, the market economy, and personal responsibility lead to prosperity, while government intervention makes us all poorer.

Everything in human life is organized around how we make decisions about three things: scarcity, property, and relationships.

The first English settlers in America learned a hard lesson about socialist economics in the early years of their new colonies as they faced starvation. Once they embraced free enterprise, however, they had something to be thankful for.

President Obama has claimed that mass shootings do not occur in other countries. But, the data is clear that they do happen other places, and in places with stringent gun control laws. Worldwide, the state fails to keep its citizens safe.

Murray Rothbard reviewed an early work by Douglass North, The Economic Growth of the United States, 1790-1860.