Bernie Quigley at The Hill predicts that in 2014:

Ron Paul rises to senior mentor, with conservatives advancing a libertarian perspective and Austrian economics and bringing conservatives new thinking and new outlook as military issues rise in Asia.  

I have written about the housing bubble in Norway here, here, and here. Reuters reports that housing prices in Norway are finally expected to fall in 2014, but not by much. Their report indicates little chance of a big crash.

I attended this year’s ASSA conference in Philadelphia. The big story for most attendees was the weather, with a big winter storm leading to delayed and cancelled flights and trains, missed connections, and a slight damper on enthusiasm. It is a huge conference with several thousand participants and hundreds of sessions, panels, receptions, and other events. As you can imagine, with that much activity, the activities included the good, the bad, and the ugly.

James Grant in the WSJ discusses Roger Babson, Irving Fisher, and John Moody:

As I noted in this Mises Daily article from 2012:

Tatsuya Iwakura strikes again. This time, he’s translated ‘What Must Be Done’ by Hans-Hermann Hoppe. Here is the English version, and here is the Japanese version at Amazon. This is a monograph. Summary:

WirtschaftsWoche: Herr Professor Hoppe, derzeit haben staatliche Eingriffe in die Wirtschaft und in die Gesellschaft wieder Hochkonjunktur. Viele Bürger wünschen sich mehr Staat und weniger Markt.