Diminishing Economic Growth: Is the Fed to Blame?
Uber and the Economics of Tipping
Remember (Mises U Alum and economist) Ken Zahringer’s great short article about tipping?
Fortunately, CNET noticed, and called Ken up to apply his tipping insights to ridesharing programs. From the article “To tip or not to tip drivers, that is Uber’s question”:
How Economic Aggregation Hides the Problems of Interventionism
Ending the War on Drugs
A Liberal Education At a Zero Price
Frank Bruni saw a woman swoon and sway back in the 1980s, and the recent memory of it caused him to call for increased federal support for liberal arts education.
How Free Markets Enhance Freedom of Choice
Mark Thornton on Cybersecurity
Mark Thornton comments in WND‘s article on recent cyber-security breaches. Thornton notes that, when breaches do occur, “Most, if not all of the time, the customer isn’t harmed; it’s the company that’s harmed. As a result, banks and retailers seek out enhanced security so criminals are less likely to be able to detect patterns.”
Philipp Bagus: Europe 25 years after the fall of the iron curtain
Thanks to Xiong Yue for providing Chinese subtitles to Philipp Bagus’s 2014 talk at the European Parliament about the fall of the Berlin Wall. There are English subtitles too, which are very helpful because the EP has managed to mess up the audio in multiple places.
Presented to the Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy Group at the European Parliament, live streamed on November 12, 2014.
(Although the video thumbnail is not showing, the video does work as of the time of posting.)