Global Economy

ECB’s Mario Draghi has taken over from Ben Bernanke as the world’s most enthusiastic money printer, writes Brendan Brown.

ECB’s Mario Draghi has taken over from Ben Bernanke as the world’s most enthusiastic money printer.

The European Central Bank’s recent move to negative interest rates is a sign that the ECB is hitting the panic button, writes Frank Hollenbeck.

It is a fact that severe poverty has disappeared in the most industrialized countries. The wealth of the first-world welfare states was made possible by those countries’ turn toward free markets in the past. Likewise, the turn toward more free markets in the developing world has reduced poverty there.

The European Central Bank’s recent move to negative interest rates is a sign that the ECB is hitting the panic button.

Entrepreneur and businessman Helio Beltrão talks to Jeff Deist about crony capitalism and the upcoming FIFA World Cup, and why the Liberty Movement

Swiss voters recently rejected a proposal to introduce the world’s highest minimum wage.

The skyscraper curse continues to haunt us. Thanks to cheap money and malinvestment, new record-setting skyscrapers are being planned and built as the global fiat-money-induced boom continues toward its inevitable correction.

Although Frédéric Bastiat disproved it years ago, many still believe that natural disasters increase economic growth.