A typeface can be a very exciting thing. There’s a whole feature-length movie about the Helvetica typeface, for instance.

Here at the Mises Institute, we’ve introduced a new typeface and format for our name (feel free to just call us “the Mises Institute”), as reflected in the store’s new page, in the future Mises.org, and in our new sign at the Mises Institute in Auburn:

I’m often fearful when I learn about new feature-length movies that are explicitly libertarian because they often suffer from tiny budgets and inexperience among the actors and crew.

In this case however, the movie looks to have an adequate budget (based on the diversity and quality of shots in the trailer) and the actors have real and lengthy IMDB credits.

Poor Bosnia. Unemployment has been over 44 percent for months and months. Independence (since 1992) has brought civil war; massive deaths related to war, invasion, ethnic violence (a hundred thousand is the death toll usually given); a “mixed” economy; big government, crony capitalism.

Left, right, conservative, progressive- they all get it wrong when it come to Piketty’s  inequality shibboleth (and the proposed “solutions”).

Exhibit 1 is this drivel from Forbes, complete with light criticism of the reliably awful Peter Orzag.  Orzag (via Bloomberg) pines for a progressive consumption tax, and Forbes is A-OK with that:

With all the brouhaha going around regarding income and wealth inequality, the question that is rarely asked is why inequality is something to abhor. As I wrote last November, whether inequality is a bad thing is not the right question – what matters more is your standard of living.