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Pietro Brugnolo is a doctoral researcher at Lund University, Sweden.

The Invisible Heroes of Our Tradition

On August 3, 1940, a mere six months into World War II, Ludwig von Mises arrived with his wife in New York City.

The fifty-eight-year-old Austrian economist had narrowly escaped Europe as the continent was engulfed by war. Because air travel was not an option amid the escalating fighting, the couple had to cross by bus from their home in Geneva, Switzerland, across southern France, into Spain, and eventually to a port in Portugal, where a ship would take them across the Atlantic.

September Jobs Report Shows Continued Employment Weakness

On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its September employment report, and it’s clear that the overall job market is anemic, at best. In September, total payroll job growth totaled 29,000, well below expectations, and a very small number as far as job growth goes. This contradicts the administration’s narrative that job growth is resilient or “bouncing back” or otherwise a sign of a strong economy.