Mises Wire

With the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, the various 2016 presidential campaigns have been thrown a serious curve ball.

Does he realize what this would do to jobs?

As anger builds at the arrogance of central bankers, it’s becoming ever clearer that there is no plan for monetary policy to return to “normal.” As Robert Murphy explained at our recent event in Houston, the Fed’s magic trick just won’t work.

Drafting women into the military has suddenly become the latest frontier in achieving "equality." If we want real equality though, we need only agree to never force men into coerced service to the state, either.

In this respect, the European Commission is actually less bad than the US government. The EU apparently still uses 500-euro notes, whereas the Us abolished it's $500 and $1,000 notes back in the 1930s.

Today in the The Telegraph, there is an excellent article by Allister Heath blasting to the arrogance of central bankers and their role in the growing global financial crisis.

Wilhelm Röpke died on this date fifty years ago. He was an excellent economist thoroughly grounded in a realistic view of human action and who, therefore, continually fought against the dehumanizing effects of Keynesian and mathematical economics.

As this election cycle has demonstrated yet again, Democrats are not shy about calling for tax increases. Republicans, on the other hand, like to pledge to not raise taxes. But, limits on taxes are only of value if government spending is curtailed at the same time.

Rothbard's book is considered the standard on the subject of the 1819 crisis, yet the NY Fed authors seem reluctant to speak his name.

On January 20, 2016, 18-year old Laura Hillier slipped away