Mises Daily Friday by Edin Mujagic:
Data from Japan, Spain, Greece, and the Netherlands all suggest that deflation is not the disaster many economists suggest it is. In fact, there's good reason to believe that economies really start to take off when prices fall the most.
All the named lectures from this year's Austrian Economics Research Conference
There is no way to know with certainty what the Fed might do in the future, but I’ve been on record as saying that under the circumstances I find it practically impossible for the Fed to ever get around to deliberately raising interest rates
In Rio they...waved placards calling for “Less Marx, more Mises.”
Gustave de Molinari learned of “the destructive apparatus of the civilized State” from the French Revolution, “naively undertaken to establish a regime of liberty and prosperity for the benefit of humanity, end[ing]…in an increase in the servitude and burdens.”
To pay its debts, Greek government, "busy thinking of new ways to raid its own population."
A fashionable approach to monetary policy these days, even in free-market circles, involves "NGDP targeting."
Here’s a back-of-the-envelope calculation on how much the mandate to require ethanol in motor fuel costs consumers, and benefits farmers.
“So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late.” (Bob Dylan, All Along the Watchtower, 1967)
The Fed's FOMC has affirmed that it may raise interest rates as some point in the future if conditions warrant such a change.
