Writing for Entrepreneur, Dr. Per Bylund outlines “3 Ways the Sharing Economy Changes Entrepreneurial Opportunity.”

The purpose of any market is to find and create new resources to satisfy consumer needs. Innovation increases over the years allow companies to achieve better results using fewer resources. Industrialization pushed this process to new heights, and today’s information age promises another leap in this process of economic resource creation.

In Planning for Freedom, we find Mises commenting once more on the ravages of World War I as he discusses the Hindenburg Program: had it had time to come to fruition, he suggests, “it would have transformed Germany into a purely totalitarian commonwealth.” Well, the war ended two years later, and the military dictatorship of Hindenburg and Ludendorff had indeed done much to create a totalit

Barron’s is writing about skyscrapers and the Skyscraper Curse:

The Bigger Asia Builds, The Harder It Falls: Could the opening of the world’s second largest building in the heart of Shanghai portend a financial crash?

They also quote me on the subject:

Enough economic warning signs are going off that the mainstream media is finally coming to grips with the fact that the debt and fiat money-fueled economy simply isn’t quite as solid as the Federal Reserve and other central planners would have us believe.

The Wall Street Journal, for example, put together a wonderful graphic highlighting the Fed’s habit of being overly optimistic on their GDP predictions.

For Spain, 1492 was a transcendent year. The discovery of the New World and the vast hordes of gold and new riches was a springboard vaulting Spain from a barely-known kingdom in medieval Europe, to the most influential global power of the day.

Supply siders are always so cocksure of themselves that it is fun to gloat a little—alright, a lot—when their forecasts go awry, which they frequently do.  Remember back in 2006 when Arthur Laffer smugly dismissed  Peter Schiff’s concerns about the housing bubble and assured us that there was no recession on the horizon?  

According to the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a recession is defined as a “significant decline in economic activity spread across the economy, lasting more than a few months.” Often, this is understood as two consecutive quarters of negative economic growth as measured by a country’s GDP.