I often find myself disagreeing with Cynthia Tucker, the Progressive journalist and professor, so I was happy to read a recent column of hers, on the farm bill that just passed the House, and find that she and I share some common ground on our views toward government.

City officials and the Broncos have applied for the Super Bowl to be held in Denver. The Republican Party has also applied to for Denver to host the 2016 GOP national convention. Let’s hope neither of these bids is successful.

I was recently interviewed by Thomas Ressler for the industry publication Inside MBS @ ABS on the recent change in the Fed’s tapering of its Quantitative Easy program:

There are few more controversial people in political circles than Alisa Rosenbaum. But few people have heard of her, because the apoplectic responses are reserved for the new name she gave herself after she left Russia for America–Ayn Rand.

Rand has persistently been among the most demonized persons in America. Yet she sold over 30 million books, and still sells hundreds of thousands of copies every year, decades after her 1982 death, and Atlas Shrugged has been ranked behind only the Bible as a book that influenced readers’ lives.

Frank Hollenbeck discusses income inequality and central banks. This video supplements today’s Mises Daily article.

Joe Salerno discusses the economics of Price Gouging. Dr. Salerno is the Mises Institute’s Academic Vice President.

Venezuela and Argentina are the Greeces of South America,  says this Economist article.  Which may make Chile the Germany of South America, but fortunately

So the TSA finally has been officially outed by one of its former employees. Yes, the agency is a joke, and everyone working there knows it. The TSA has not prevented any terrorist attacks, nor are TSA agents “on the front lines of fighting terrorism” no matter what rhetoric we hear from Washington and members of Congress, as well as from the sycophants working for President Obama.