In a recent exchange with Janet Yellen, Senator Ted Cruz blamed the Fed for being too "tight" with monetary policy, thus causing the financial crisis of 2008. Cruz is right that the Fed was at fault, but he's wrong about how.
Pew recently reported on how the homicide rate in the US has been cut in half over the past twenty years, even as gun ownership has greatly expanded in the US. The US public, meanwhile, thinks the murder rate is increasing.
Students don't care about Keynes when school is out. To the extent that Mises and Hayek get a school "bump", students stay interested even when school is out.
Today, just one day prior to the announcement of the FED’s decision as to whether or not they will raise rates, the financial headlines are awash w
As I mention in today's Daily, one of the really exciting developments in the continued growth of the Austrian school is what is going on in Brazil.
Luckily for us all, Mises survived the war and went on to live a life that fundamentally altered the world. He overcame the Nazis, academic blacklists, and the personal hardships that tends to haunt any man who refuses to sacrifice his principles.
An opinion piece in today's WSJ on the collapsing Brazilian economy extensively quotes a spokesman for Mises Institute Brazil, as well as cites articles from the institute's website.
The Mises Institute has been named the 9th Most Influential US Think Tank by TheBestSchools.org, a leading online resource for campus and online education.
ZIRP has created massive asset bubbles throughout the world economy, but also has a diabolical impact on ordinary people who are largely disconnected to the bubbles.
