Mises Wire

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.

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.

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."

The Federal Reserve's inflationary monetary policy has so eroded the value of US coinage that those small coins aren't even worth producing anymore.

Supply siders are always so cocksure of themselves that it is fun to gloat a little — alright, a lot — when their forecasts go awry, which they frequently do.

Thanks to easy credit, automobiles have become very complex and luxurious, and brimming with safety features. The cost of producing these cars, however, won't keep prices from falling once the bubble bursts.

Lego has finally managed to attract girls to their products with the Lego Friends line. In response, feminists have denounced the line for being too "girly." But Lego is just responding to market demand and what Mises called consumer sovereignty.