I have previously reported about a friend of mine and her experience with Obama Care. Earlier this year her catastrophic health insurance was canceled as insufficient under Obama Care regulations. Her monthly premiums would have increased by several hundred percent to get the cheapest available qualifying coverage. Instead she was given a “better” plan that cut her premiums by more than 90% of what she was paying for her catastrophic coverage.

It was reported today that Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen earns over $200,000 as head of the world’s biggest central bank. Amazingly, there are at least 113 employees at the Fed’s Washington DC headquarters that earns more than she does!

MADRID (MarketWatch) — $201,700 a year doesn’t seem like chump change. That’s what the Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen earns as head of the world’s biggest central bank.

In this interview, Mark Thornton covers some basics about the Austrian School and the current economic situation.

Unfortunately this team seems to be covering up a possible risk to children, especially black children.

For years, some parents of autistic children have claimed a link between their children’s condition and vaccines. One vaccine in particular has been mentioned: the MMR (Mumps, Measles, and Rubella).

As an academic and economist, few things are as frustrating and mind-boggling as the fervor with which people embrace and display their economic illiteracy. It appears some, and an increasing number of them, consider it to be a quality or even a moral advantage to remain ignorant of basic economics.

Board member Dr. Don Printz has donated to the Institute a magnificent bronze bust of libertarian pioneer Leonard E. Read (1898-1983), founder of the Foundation for Economic Education and friend of Ludwig von Mises, Henry Hazlitt, Ron Paul, and Lew Rockwell.

More photos are here.

Mark Thornton on PressTV:

In a sense wealth disparities do indicate recessions because they have the same cause as the boom-bust cycle in the economy, that is, when the central bank - the Federal Reserve of the United States - reduces interest rates to very low levels, they cause a boom in the economy which leads to an inevitable bust in the economy,” Thornton, senior fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, told Press TV in a phone interview on Wednesday.

Summary by Luis Rivera III:

Here Dr. Walter Block, host Daniel Rothchild and other guests go over a number of topics including:

One of the more important monetary theorists of the mid to late 1900s, Leland Yeager, Ludwig von Mises Professor of Economics, Emeritus, at Auburn University, recently turned 90. The Mises Institute last week hosted a reception his honor. Multiple tributes to Professor Yeager are available at the free banking blog.  Well worth reading to anyone interested in monetary economics.