Mises Daily Monday by Justin Murray:
Refugees no longer stop at the nearest safe haven, but instead are lured into enduring hazardous black-market journeys for a welfare-state payoff. At the same time, states offer high fees and reams of paperwork for those seeking legal passage.
So many skyscrapers are being built right now that there has emerged a shortage in the special glass panels that forms the exterior of most modern skyscrapers.There are more than 100 skyscrapers currently under construction that are designed to be over 1000 feet tall with the tallest one designed to be 1000 meters tall. With all this construction under way there has emerged a shortage of the specialized glass panels that form the exterior of most modern skyscrapers.
On August 27, 2015, seventy-one refugees were discovered suffocated in an abandoned, locked transport truck in Austria just across the border with Hungary. These individuals, reported as refugees fleeing from the civil war in Syria, made a trek of over 1,000 miles.
The image of a dead three-year-old Syrian refugee washed up on a Greek shore sparked renewed international focus on the waves of Middle Eastern and North African immigrants fleeing their war torn homelands. The issue has been presented by politicians and the media almost exclusively through a statist lens: a choice between government-imposed integration as proposed by open borders advocates, or government-enforced exclusion advocated by nationalists who wish to wall off their nation from foreigners.
Mark Thornton is interviewed by William Campbell. This is a primer on Austrian Economics designed by Campbell for an audience unfamiliar with Austrian Economics or laissez-faire economics in general. (20 minutes.)
The first line of The Economist‘s article puts it this way: “The last time the Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate, there was no one to tweet about it.”
That’s because there was no such thing as Twitter in June 2006, when the Fed raised the Federal Funds Target rate from 5 percent to 5.25 percent. MySpace was still popular then, too, and YouTube was only 18 months old.
Europe has complex immigration rules. As the EU web site shows, there are multiple layers of immigration regulations encompassing both the local national level and the EU level.
A report from the Financial Post shows that Calgary in Alberta Canada now has 1.7 million square feet of empty office space, the most in North America with another 5.2 million under construction! After years of booming construction, the natural resource rich country is starting to feel the pinch.
Following the July 5 “no” vote in Greece against the terms of the negotiated bailout, European elites swore they would no longer negotiate:
