Mises Wire

Bloomberg reports

The Washington Post reports on Houston's Mises Circle. Sort of. 

Mario Rizzo in WSJ on failure of government spending to generate growth in world economy.

Popular opinion seems to be that falling prices—or even stable prices—are bad for the economy, but I’ve never seen any good arguments about why.

When L.H. White writes, people read! Larry White has just released a must read working paper on SSRN, "Hayek and Contemporary Macroeconomics".

There has been much hand wringing among popular blogger-economists in response to the breaking of the Euro peg by the SNB.

According to CBC News, "The Bank of Canada shocked markets today by cutting its key overnight lending rate by a quarter of a percentage point, citing the economic threat posed by plunging oil prices."

Government intervention kills another small business

Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the IMF, revealed that it was a "a bit of a surprise" that she was not informed in advance of the Swiss National Bank's decision to dissolve the the inflationary peg with the euro.

President Obama's acolytes have begun circulating the term "middle class economics" through the Sunday morning news programs and throughout the media.