Mises Wire

Understanding what turns an ordinary currency into a global reserve currency can help us understand how the dollar could go into decline and give way to competing currencies.

Politicians like Elizabeth Warren and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are demanding that successful entrepreneurs be taxed into oblivion. The real parasites are the politicians who destroy wealth instead of creating it.

The bipartisan RESTRICT Act—marketed as a "Tik Tok ban"—is properly named because it will restrict freedom, empower the state, and expand government surveillance. 

April 5 is the 90th anniversary of Roosevelt's order outlawing private ownership of gold in America. This was part of an even larger plan to revolutionize the American monetary system.

While Elizabeth Warren and others are waving the bloody shirt for more bank regulation, the problem is that bank regulations themselves are creating financial instability.

A billion here and a billion there starts to add up to real money—we are now talking about real money when it comes to Fed losses.

Like Bentham's panopticon, modern cancel culture is built upon fear and online bullying, making people police their own thoughts.

With the government foolishly handicapping the oil and gas industries and pushing other alternatives, the future is not very bright.

Even a partial weakening of the dollar's global demand will limit the US regime's ability to throw its weight around internationally. Yet Washington is unwilling to do what's necessary to prevent it. 

Violent crime is on the rise in Canada, and its progressive democracy is helpless to stop it. Further empowerment of the state makes things worse.