El orden social basado en la propiedad está siendo destruido por los bancos centrales

Los lectores de Mises Wire están sin duda familiarizados con las consecuencias negativas de la banca central y la capacidad inflacionaria de la moneda fiduciaria y cómo un sistema así impulsa la mala inversión y conduce a ciclos de auge y caída. El ciclo económico no sólo conduce a la mala asignación de recursos desde sus fines naturales de la estructura de producción, sino que también impulsa los recursos hacia la financiarización, en lugar de la economía «real».

El mito del gran encuentro ferroviario

Mark Pribonic decided to take an excursion to a place in American history, Promontory Summit, Utah. It is literally in no-man’s-land of the western plains. This isolated spot on the map is the place where the railroads of the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific met, completing the transcontinental rail line. What was to be a walkthrough American history trivia turned out to be an economic lesson in the absurdity of government subsidies.

Víctimas en juicio: la actividad cotidiana de las cortes

In a courtroom packed with purported criminals, not even one of the people who appeared before the judge was a danger to society. Nearly all were in for victimless crimes. The two who had perpetrated actual crimes — petty theft from Wal-Mart and the local mall — could have easily been dealt with without involving the state. So far as I could tell, the place could have been emptied out completely and our little community would have been no worse off, and massive human suffering could have been avoided. But that’s not the way it works. These people, overwhelmingly black and poor but dressed very nicely in the hope of impressing the master, found themselves entangled in the web and thereby elicited the glare and killer instinct of the spider. How painful it was to watch and not be able to do anything about it.

Exportaciones de capital y libre comercio

The period from the onset of World War I until the demise of the Soviet empire in 1991 has been called the “great parenthesis” in western history, writes JG Hülsmann. The United States offered virtually the only safe haven for capital investments. Among the beneficiaries of this somewhat artificial increase of the capital stock were the American wage earners. Now this epoch is drawing to an end--to the ultimate benefit of all.

TMM para conservadores

Jonathan Culbreath, publicando en la página web de The American Conservative (24 de marzo de 2021), insta a sus compañeros conservadores a adoptar una trivialidad izquierdista de moda, la teoría monetaria moderna (TMM). El Sr. Culbreath se basa para su explicación de la TMM en el popular libro de Stephanie Kelton, The Deficit Myth, que reseñé aquí. Según la TMM, un gobierno que controla su propia moneda nunca tiene que preocuparse por el gasto deficitario, porque siempre puede imprimir más dinero para pagar sus facturas.