While the average person thinks economics begins with Adam Smith and his Wealth of Nations, readers of the Mises Wire know that the story goes back much further than that. Members of the Austrian school commonly describe their earliest intellectual predecessors, ...

Self-determination means the ability to make laws for one’s own community free from intervention by Washington, DC. Most of the world can do this. Why can’t Americans? Original Article: “Secession: Why the Regime Tolerates Self-Determination for Foreigners but Not for Americans” This ...

Introduction: Division, friction and polarization have been on the rise in the West for at least a decade, but the escalation we saw during the “covid years” was especially worrying. Over the last year, this “worry” has become a truly ...

There were times over the past few years that I wondered if Boeing (BA) would ever recover from its own miscues and the COVID-19 pandemic. Well, BA and its peer group, aerospace ($DJUSAS), were literally “flying” into the end of ...

BREGANA BORDER CROSSING, Croatia — Croatia rang in two historic changes with the new year, as the European Union’s (EU) youngest member joined both the EU’s border-free Schengen zone and the euro common currency, fulfilling longstanding ambitions of close integration ...

SEOUL – South Korea and the United States are discussing possible joint planning and exercises using U.S. nuclear assets in the face of North Korea‘s growing nuclear and missile threats, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol said in a newspaper interview. The Chosun Ilbo newspaper quoted Yoon as saying the joint planning and exercises would be aimed at a more effective implementation ...

MOSCOW – Russia’s buffeted IT sector risks losing more workers in the new year because of planned legislation on remote working, as authorities try to lure back some of the tens of thousands who have gone abroad without prompting them to cut ...

BEIJING/WUHAN – Some people in China’s key cities of Beijing, Shanghai and Wuhan braved the cold and a spike in COVID-19 infections to return to regular activity on Monday, confident of a boost to the economy as more recover from infections. Among those who ...

The world welcomed the new year with a packed party in Times Square and fireworks soaring above European capitals, while hoping for an end to the war in Ukraine and a return to post-COVID normality in Asia. It was a year ...

SEOUL – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for developing new intercontinental ballistic missiles and a larger nuclear arsenal to counter US-led threats, state media said on Sunday, amid flaring tension between the rival Koreas. At a meeting of the ruling ...