Mises Daily

The Fed has been creating money at a phenomenal clip all year with the M-3 (that government no longer reports, but economist John Williams does on Shadowstats.com) growing at a 14-percent rate, a 34-year high.

But considering the future — as embodied by a mob of college-age kids willing to spontaneously party to benefit a 72-year-old grandfather who promises them nothing other than to leave them alone — maybe, just maybe, I should have a little more [hope].

The extent those costs harm the domestic auto industry illustrates what happens to industries in which worker benefits exceed worker productivity. No market participant consistently gambles with economic law and wins, and the UAW has been gambling for a long time.

If a regime of complete economic freedom be established, social and political freedom will follow automatically; and until it is established neither social nor political freedom can exist.

The drive of the New Deal toward war once again reshuffled the ideological spectrum and the meaning of Left and Right in American politics.

The government is thus able to anesthetize the public to tolerate — and indeed expect — decisions that are made without regard to right or wrong, but solely on the basis of the relative political influence of rent seekers and property owners.

Mr Greenspan: Please send a $100 bill to the Hubris in Monetary Policy Award Committee and write Bernanke or Shiller's name on the back. After all, since both men promote the myth that that inflation is only sometimes and only in some places a monetary phenomenon, they have your back as well.

The course that we will be giving is what you would have gotten in contemporary colleges and universities had this tragic diversion not occurred.

Praxeology takes an actor's goals, and his beliefs on how to satisfy them, as the starting point of analysis. If people erroneously believe that a certain root possesses medicinal properties, it will command a price on the market. The economist must take people as they are to explain market phenomena.

Of course Podhoretz's argument is wrong: it does not follow from the instability of a government that a successor regime can be easily established.