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Piggy Bank Exploding
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Shocking Health Care Expenditure Stats

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Blog12/03/2014

Shocking health care expenditure: US vs. the rest of world.

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Should Government Stabilize the Price Level?

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Blog11/04/2014

Below, Rothbard explains that one reason given in support of a government-regulated monetary system is that it would allow for imposed stability of prices.   Rothbard explains why “stabilization” in prices is a misguided program. He wrote this in...

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International Conference of Prices & Markets Coming Soon

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Blog10/16/2014

Reflective of the growing international participation at the Toronto Austrian Scholars Conference, the event will be rebranded as the International Conference of Prices & Markets in concert with the Mises...

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The Ethanol Industry: An Engine of Economic Destruction

InterventionismPricesProduction Theory

Blog08/06/2014

In his recent Mises Daily, Dave Albin admirably elucidates the tangle of unseen, long-run consequences that has resulted from uncoordinated government subsidies to the sugar, corn and ethanol industries.  

But...

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The Big-Oil Administration Achieves its Goal

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Blog03/11/2008

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The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences 2007

PricesProduction Theory

Blog10/15/2007

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2007 jointly to Leonid Hurwicz, University of Minnesota, Eric S. Maskin,...

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The New York Times Management: Not as Smart as You

Media and CulturePrices

Blog09/19/2007

So the Times has stopped charging for most of its web content. The reason? "Many more readers started coming to...

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Starbucks: Are Fu-Fu Prices Too High?

Calculation and KnowledgePricesProduction Theory

Blog08/01/2007

Starbucks just raised prices this past winter. And now again?

I have wondered if...

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Prices are up! Or Down! Depending...

Prices

Blog07/18/2007

The CPI release this month features its usual aggregation and concludes that prices are rising 5% per annum. But take a look at specifics. If your main thing is driving around and burning fossil fuels, your compounded annual rate of price...

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Gouging you and me

Legal SystemInterventionismPrices

Blog06/13/2007

In May, the House of Representatives passed a bill that could lead to fines as high as $3 million per day for gasoline price gouging, which it defined as charging a price that "grossly exceeds the average price offered for sale by that person during the 30 days prior" or "grossly exceeds the...

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