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One great thing about innovation in gaming is that the more complex and realistic games get, the more they begin to mirror real-world economic principles.

Register here for our upcoming Mises Circle in Stamford, Connecticut, on Thursday, May 7.

Federal surveys that measure "food insecurity" are so hopelessly skewed, as to be useless. 

Money's main job is simply to fulfill the role of the medium of exchange. Money doesn't sustain or fund real economic activity. The means of sustenance are provided by saved real goods and services.

Like a good guy in an old Western determined to put things aright, George Selgin has once again arrived on the scene shooting from the hip--an

Professor Joseph Salerno, Academic Vice President at the Mises Institute, was installed to the new Peterson-Luddy Chair in Austrian Economics on March 13, 2015 at the 2015 Austrian Economics Research Conference.

"Financial Repression is the name we give to all the different government interventions in which governments seek to improve their own bargaining position with financial markets."

Lee Kuan Yew , who led the successful effort to turn Singapore into a economic and financial powerhouse, died Monday at age 91. 

It was just a matter of time before Western governments used the trumped up “War on Terror” as an excuse to drastically ratchet up the

For those new to Austrian economics, there are few modern scholars whose work I would recommend more enthusiastically than Salerno’s.