Mises Wire

Writing for Entrepreneur, Dr. Per Bylund outlines "3 Ways the Sharing Economy Changes Entrepreneurial Opportunity."

In the announcement of of his new health care plan this week, Bernie Sanders claimed that the US spends more on health care than any other country, and he said it as if it were a bad thing.

This is from the in-case-you-missed-it files. Thomas Sowell, my favorite Chicago economist, was a long-time supporter of the Federal Reserve bound by a Friedmanite monetary rule. In an interview in 2010, he called the Fed a "cancer" and advocated its abolition.

Following the discovery of the Americas, Spain began a 300-year period of booms, busts, war, and mercantilism. Only in the eighteenth century did the country begin to find prosperity through liberalization of trade and private property.

Enough economic warning signs are going off that the mainstream media is finally coming to grips with the fact that the debt and fiat money-fueled economy simply isn't quite as solid as the Federal Reserve and other central planners would have us believe.

Barron's is writing about skyscrapers and the Skyscraper Curse. They also quote me on the subject.

A century of altering the social and economic life in the West: World War I.

More credit expansion to keep the current easy-money induced boom going is only delaying the inevitable.

Ron Paul's economics manifesto the Pillars of Prosperity is now available in China thanks to translator Wang Wenbin.

This week, the Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, following the lead of New York and a growing number of state governments, denounced daily fantasy sites as "illegal gambling."