In his Financial Times article “The curse of weak global demand,” Martin Wolf writes that today’s most important economic illness is chronic demand deficiency syndrome. Wolf argues that despite massive monetary pumping by the central banks of the US and the EMU, and the policy of lowering interest rates to around zero, both the US and the EMU, economies have continued to struggle.
We first printed this list in 2007:
Bettina-Bien Greaves took careful notes during Ludwig von Mises’s New York seminars. Whenever he made a comment that suggested research paper or book, she jotted it down on a note card. She kept all these note cards and has generously agreed to share them with the public by sending them to us.
The Mises Institute is pleased to make them public for the first time.
Discussing his recent article on Downton Abbey’s Dirty Secret on the Exceptional Conservative Show.
On the Butler On Business show to discuss football, the economy, and more.
Richard Ebeling writes:
On Thursday, November 13th, I was interviewed on the “Boom-Bust” segment on RT television on Ludwig von Mises and the Austrian Theory of the Business Cycle, especially in terms of its important and continuing relevance in the context of current Federal Reserve monetary policy with its easy money policies and interest rate manipulations of the last several years.
In case you missed it live, here’s is the archived interview with Jeff Deist on Power Trading Radio from November 21.
The “Wells Fargo Economics Group” opines in its daily email:
The meltdown in oil prices has been touted in the media as the salvation of the consumer and business alike, the proverbial Rudolf the Red Nose Reindeer that saves Christmas. Other have correctly cautioned that the collapse in oil prices threatens certain high-cost producers, notably the shale oil producers in the US and Canada.
World War I marks one of the great watersheds of modern history. With its end the transformation of the entire Western world from monarchical rule and sovereign kings to democratic-republican rule and sovereign people that began with the French Revolution was completed. Until 1914, only three republics had existed in Europe — France, Switzerland and after 1911, Portugal; and of all major European monarchies only the United Kingdom could be classified as a parliamentary system, i. e., one in which supreme power was vested in an elected parliament.
