Heads up, you wouldn’t know it by looking at its daily chart, but the SMH is skating on some very thin ice.  Since the market’s lows in October 2022, the SMH has been one of the recent bull rally’s earliest ...

The next liquidity crisis will likely be spurred by the woes in commercial real estate (CRE); ironically, a four-headed megatrend which has been accelerated by the Fed’s rate hike cycle.  Introducing the Four Horsemen of MELA:  The Great Migration – population ...

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. Original Article: “Who Are the Wealth Destroyers, Politicians or Billionaires?” This Audio Mises ...

The normal relationship between the Volatility Index ($VIX) and the S&P 500 is an inverse one. The easiest way to illustrate this is to pull up a chart showing both and their correlation coefficient: The red arrows mark bottoms in ...

RUSSIA is advising citizens to avoid travel to Canada, citing what it calls numerous cases of discrimination against Russians, including physical violence, its foreign ministry said on Saturday. Canada is one of the most vocal backers of Ukraine in the ...

CLIMATE CHANGE campaigners gathered in New York’s Times Square on Earth Day to urge action on global warming and cuts in plastics use while volunteers worldwide planted trees and cleared trash to mark the 54th annual celebration of the environment. ...

GLOBAL OIL TRADERS are fixated on the next milestone in China’s economic recovery, when travelers pack their bags and head to the airport for the Golden Week holiday in early May. Some 170 million Chinese holidayed abroad in 2019, before ...

WASHINGTON — All US government personnel were evacuated from Washington’s embassy in Khartoum, as well as a small number of diplomatic personnel from other countries, US officials said Saturday, as fighting rocks Sudan. The operation evacuated fewer than 100 people, ...

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.  Original Article: “The RESTRICT Act Launches a New War on Free Speech” This Audio Mises Wire is ...

  Continued inflation inevitably leads to catastrophe. —Ludwig von Mises Consumers’ behaviors cause the consumer price index (CPI) broad heading of food to understate the real or wallet level of inflation. It is much worse than the top line statistic—it ...