Mises Wire

Laurence J.

The Economist has run a major section examining the housing bubbles that are popping up around the world.

Tallying up the government payroll used to be a somewhat reliable way to measure the size of government.

I wish to elaborate on an article that was blogged by Jeff Tucker (

Feds to states:  The dictation of private banks’ ATM fee policies is our job.  Go harass someone else. 

• Deflation hysteria spreads to Eurozone (BBC)    

Martin Wolf,

‘You’ll think I’m off my trolley, but Bush has the most positive approach to Africa since Kennedy,’ says Bob Geldorf.

“I favor a much smaller government, but I do not favor the Bush tax cut.