June 2022

Both consumer prices and producer rose near to multi-decade highs last month. Price inflation rose to 8.6 percent while wholesale producer prices rose by more than 10 percent. In both cases, a significant factor behind rising prices—but certainly not the only

Skyrocketing asset prices are great for hedge fund managers and Wall Street types, but they increasingly drive ordinary people into unsustainably large amounts of debt. Original Article: "Are Today's Homeownership Rates Sustainable?" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon. 

Tho Bishop introduces a new Mises Institute podcast: War, Economy, and State, with Ryan McMaken and Zachary Yost. The War, Economy, and State podcast covers geopolitics and international relations from a free-market and anti-interventionist perspective. You can subscribe at Mises.org/WES. Be

The covid-19 pandemic featured an unprecedented fusion of the interests of large and powerful corporations with the power of the state. Democratically elected politicians in many countries failed to represent the interests of their own citizens and uphold their own

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The Davos crowd sold globalization as a way to bring nations together. Unfortunately, by insisting on political conformity, the globalists have set the world on fire. Original Article: "Instead of Uniting the World, Globalization Has Set Nation against Nation" This Audio Mises

With a budget surplus of more than $200 million, the California legislature is thinking big, really big, and that means one thing: single-payer government healthcare, which recently was introduced as AB 1400. Notes the Los Angeles Times: This measure … would

Negative feedback loops are the ultimate source of value. Mises called it “uneasiness and the image of a more satisfactory state”. Bill Gates said that “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning”. Negative feedback loops give us

Since the state is incorrigible and incapable of being reformed, perhaps the best way to deal with government predations is to boycott the elections. Original Article: "Let's Boycott Them!" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon. 

Money supply growth fell slightly in April, falling below March's eight month high. Even with March's bump in growth, though, money supply growth remains far below the unprecedented highs experienced during much of the past two years. During thirteen months between April 2020 and April