Mises Wire

Dr. Thornton appeared this week on Press TV to discuss the recent jump in the US trade deficit. 

Lew Rockwell and Jeff Deist invite you to join them at the Mises Circle on Thursday, May 7 with talks by a compelling slate of speakers: James Grant, Judge Andrew P. Napolitano, David Stockman, and Joseph Salerno.  Listen LIVE here at 1:30 PM EST. 

Mises Daily Thursday by Ryan McMaken: 

With huge debts and an immensely inflated supply of dollars, the US is vulnerable to its own "Suez moment" in which foreign regimes can nullify American foreign policy without firing a shot.

Why haven't people been ferrying goods to Cuba until now? Because any entrepreneur seeking to do such a thing faced heavy fines and even imprisonment under US federal law. 

The Baltimore police now imply Freddie Gray's arrest was necessary because he was carrying an illegal knife. But why are taxpayers paying the government to arrest people for carrying knives? What about the right to bear knives? 

Mark Thornton discusses Ted Cruz's new tax proposal, flat taxes, and proportional taxes on Newsmax TV.

Janet Yellen See Stock Prices Are High, but She Sees no Bubbles

A new Polish translation of Hans-Hermann Hoppe's A Theory of Socialism & Capitalism (Teoria socjalizmu i kapitalizmu), is now available here from the Mises Institute of Poland.  (translated by Paweł Nowakowski).

I wish I could say that the recent events in Ba

John P. Cochran, Senior Fellow at the Mises Institute, expert on the Fed and monetary policy, and co-author (with Fred Glahe) of The Hayek-Keynes Debate: Lessons for Current Business Cycle Research, has passed away.