In a recent analysis by Forbes of social media presence and web traffic, the Mises Institute repeatedly ranked in the top three when compared to like organizations in web traffic, Youtube subscribers and other metrics. In this case, the Mises Institute is compared to “think tanks,” and although the Mises Institute is an educational and research organization and not a think tank, you get the general idea.
Here, Ron Paul discusses Crimean secession:
“That is our how our country was started,” he said. “It was the right of self-determination, and voting, and asking and even fighting for it, and seceding. Of course libertarians were delighted with the secession of the various countries and units of government away from the Soviet Union, so yes, we want the people to make the decisions.”
by David Stockman
Remarks To The Committee For The Republic, Washington DC, February 2014 (Part 1 of 6 Parts) [From David Stockman’s Contra Corner.]
Lets hear it for the Austrian School. Yes, after much soul searching and research the Washington Post’s resident Marxist E.J. Dionne has discovered why things are not getting done in Washington the way he would like. Yes, it is the Austrian School of Economics.
Yesterday’s video featuring Jeff Deist and Ron Paul has been added to Youtube. This version is also slightly longer:
One way to make a Keynesian bristle is to tell him that Keynesian theory at its core is little more than the discredited belief of “underconsumption.” Now, the standard “underconsumption” theory is built upon the premise that unless an economy can “buy back” the products that are created, the economy will drift into crisis as inventories pile up, layoffs occur, and the economy implodes into a perverse equilibrium — and stays there unless government intervenes to save the economy.
In the aftermath of the demise of bitcoin bank Mt. Gox comes a few startling revelations. A newly released “Crisis Strategy Draft” confirms some unfortunate truths long suspected of its handling of clients’ bitcoin deposits. (The document might be a fake, but I’ll accept it as legitimate until proof otherwise surfaces.)
After the stock market collapse of 2008 and a decline of 3.4 percent for U.S. GDP in 2009, investors rushed to stash funds in emerging markets (EM) where economies were growing at a 3.1 percent annual rate. But the US stock market fell in January of this year largely due to financial trouble in emerging markets. The economies of EM nations, such as, Brazil, Russia, India, Turkey, Thailand, and China, have deteriorated in part because of the withdrawal of US dollar investments from them.
