Mises Wire

Back when I taught collegiate political science, one of my pet peeves was the habit of some students to treat republics and democracies as if they were opposites.

Negative rates will fail because the problem with the economy is not a problem of too little consumption or demand. The problem stems from a distorted economy caused by manipulated interest rates.

There's no reason for an ordinary person to know who he was since most people are completely powerless in the selection, decision-making, and retention of federal judges.

With the past year's events fully understood and in context we can now make a more sound evaluation of what Saudi Arabia and OPEC might do next.

With so little time between the denial of even considering negative rates and the actual implementation of rates, one is left wondering,"Why the change of heart?"

As Martin Armstrong reports, the new version of the venerable board game "Monopoly" set to be released this summer is completely cashless.

Commentators have called the last Republican debate "thermonuclear" and similar adjectives, but not "ill-mannered", which it was. Is this because good manners no longer matter? Or, do good manners actually count against you?

The precarious and hostile coexistence between central banks and cash just ended. Earlier today the European Central Bank's Governing Council voted to withdraw the 500-euro note (worth $558) from circulation.

Compared to the golden age of innovation, now maligned as the "Gilded Age," technological innovation has slowed considerably. But, it doesn't have to be this way, if we can only get the state out of the way.

With the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, the various 2016 presidential campaigns have been thrown a serious curve ball.