Mises Institute

Economics has its own four-letter words. Although they are not obscene, socialists and statists would find them so.

Whenever there is an economic problem, politicians in knee-jerk response blame private monopolies. The problem isn’t monopolies; the problem is government.

President Trump’s erratic actions have created uncertainty in the gold markets, and just about everywhere else, and there is no end in sight.

What looks like market strength may be a delayed reckoning. Mark Thornton explains the signals, the Fed’s playbook, and where the next bust is likely to hit first.

The notion that AI can take over an economy is fantasy. A market economy is not made up of competing algorithms but rather sets of prices that lead to discovery.

The boom-bust cycle is not a mystery. Understanding why requires grappling honestly with what the last fifty years produced.

In February, the total money supply again rose, heading above $20.4 and growing by a trillion dollars in seven months from July 2025 to February 2026.

Far from being what Keynes called that “barbarous relic,” gold has been important throughout history, and to the present day. Joakim Book reviews The Secret History of Gold: Myth, Money, Politics & Power.

On VRIC Media, Darrell Thomas talks with Jonathan Newman about the real problem behind debt and deficits.

Lea and Roosevelt counties in the US state of New Mexico (NM) in 2026 are seeking to secede and join the state of Texas.

Those who invoke Jesus for socialism face a tension: if the power to end suffering creates a moral obligation, then the Jesus who healed many but not all appears, by that standard, either unwilling or unable.