Mark Thornton presents a one-minute primer on the “Skyscraper Curse.”

J. Dayne Girard writes in today’s Mises Daily: 

[A selection from Power and Market.]

By Murray N. Rothbard 

Peter Klein discusses who should make the decisions to best allocate scarce resources and time.

Peter Klein discusses who should make the decisions to best allocate scarce resources and time.  

In addition to her shorter piece on the English Levellers, Roberta Modugno has provided this longer, footnoted piece as well, including:

On this week’s edition of Mises Weekends. (Mp3, 25 minutes.) Click here for the YouTube version. Also available at iTunes.  Gerald Celente is is a trend forecaster, publisher of the Trends Journal, business consultant, and author who makes predictions about the global financial markets and other events of historical importance.

Lew Rockwell writes:

Randolph Bourne, the antiwar intellectual who contended that “war is the health of the state” was born today, May 30, in 1886. Bourne’s monograph The State, published posthumously, is available here at Mises.org. Bourne authored several other insightful pieces as well, are are collected in the 1964 collection War and the Intellectuals.