Mises Wire

Although many analysts are and have been calling for a bottom in oil prices, there are three key reasons why oil can continue to fall substantially further from current levels near $30 per barrel.

On the eve of the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, William White, chairman of the Economic Development and Review Committee of the OECD and former chief economist of the Bank for International Settlements, delivered a dire warning concerning an impending meltdown of the global financial system.

The new trend among famous economists is pointing out the times they changed their views in light of new empirical findings. Far from defending economics as a science and a profession, this trend actually reveals the unscientific and ideological nature of mainstream economics.

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.

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.

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."