Ludwig von Mises was born 144 years ago today. His economic masterpieces are as relevant and powerful today as when they were ...

The quest for sound money is hardly a recent phenomenon. In 13th century Italy, two different gold monetary units competed ...

Political economist Cristina Bodea talks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about how central bank independence became the ...

Those who do this homework will almost certainly come to the conclusion that Vienna’s lessons are not applicable to ...

When we picture the history of money, many imagine barter leading naturally to coins, then paper bills, then cards and ...

To Knut Svanholm, Bitcoin is an agreement on a fixed set of rules that’s costlier to break than to follow. All human action is ultimately a conversation about resolving conflicts over perceived scarce ...

Chart #1 shows the level of the M2 money supply, which grew at a fairly steady rate of about 6% per year from 1995 to just ...

Austria's central banker urges Europe to streamline crypto regulations and simplify financial rules for more effective ...

Capitalism is often thought of as an economic system in which private actors own and control property in accord with their interests, and demand and supply freely set prices in markets in a way that ...

Global growth is expected to decline and downside risks to intensify as major policy shifts unfold After enduring a prolonged and unprecedented series of shocks, the global economy appeared to have ...

So practically no teenagers have kids (a good thing). Very few women in their early 20s having kids (probably also a good thing). Age of marriage and family formation rising (also a good thing for ...