[Updated Author’s Note: The issue of immigration has only become more pressing over the ten years that have passed since this article’s original publication. And, unfortunately, the libertarian movement has not reached a consensus on this issue.

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act. The ADA requires that businesses provide “reasonable accommodation” to disabled employees. Most people generally point to mandates for wheelchair ramps into businesses, or elevators to the second floor. But as with most federal regulations, the ADA goes much, much further than that. James Bovard, writing on the original legislation’s anniversary, explains:

Mathematical economics is fraying at both ends. Critics of the over-mathematization of economics keep chipping away at the spurious correlations and the theoretical equations that are either too simple or too complicated. At the other end, notable mainstream economists like Paul Romer see fundamental problems in the way economics is done today.

A barbershop that is set up specifically to serve men, must now pay $750 dollars after a Pennsylvania state investigation into “discriminatory” practices on the part of the barbershop owners. The owner, John Interval, was fined $750 after he declined to cut a woman’s hair. According to Interval: ‘I didn’t really consider it so much a discrimination thing as – it’s a barbershop… for guys,’ Interval said.”

Not sure what to make of this. The “junk silver” (90% used US silver coins) seems to have disappeared. After checking several websites that deal in such coins almost all categories (e.g. dimes, quarters, half dollars) have no inventory to sell. You can still buy bright and shiny versions of the coins at around a 20% premium over the silver value. The typical premium for junk silver is a few percentage points over the market value of the silver content.

In apportioning blame for the Greek government debt crisis, it would be difficult not to lay the major share on Greece itself. With government jobs paying three times the private sector average, a national rail service with a wage bill four times its annual revenue, a public pension system that would pay out generous benefits at fifty for anyone classified as working in “arduous” professions like hairdressing, there is no shortage of taxpayer-funded largesse running rampant through Greek society.

Our guest this weekend is Jim Rickards, the author of the New York Times bestseller The Death of Money and a well-known expert in geopolitics and global capital.

It was another volatile week for markets in the US, with the New York Stock Exchange posting its second worst week in 2015. This follows last week’s Monday panic. The Fed and Fed watchers are now all wondering if the Fed is going to ever end QE, or if fear of our weakened economy will lead to attempts at perpetual quantitative easing.

Not surprisingly, our most-read articles for August reflect uncertainty over the future of the global economy and the world’s central banks.

Here’s are the Top Ten most-read articles for August. I’m now including both Mises Daily and Mises Wire together. Some Mises Wire articles are so popular on their own, they beat out numerous featured Mises Daily articles to make the list:

1. The Unseen Consequences of Zero-Interest-Rate Policy by Ronald-Peter Stöferle