He builds on his Mises Daily article from this morning.

Peter Klein’s article on the debt ceiling today links also to John P. Cochran’s “The Ethics of Repudiation“ and Murray N. Rothbard’s “ Repudiating the National Debt.”

Also from Mises Daily on the debt ceiling:

yesterday in LRC, Thomas DiLorenzo notes:

Senior Fellow Yuri Maltsev recently lectured in Mauritius and was interviewed in Le Mauricien. Here is a portion loosely translated from the French original:

Mises Institute Associated Scholar Richard Vedder is interviewed in the Wall Street Journal and discusses the cost of a college education:

The inestimable Jim Grant of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer reminds Washington Post readers that the United States has defaulted on its debt in the past and will do so again in the future.  Almost as educational as Grant’s op-ed are the accompanying comments from beltarians who are simply shocked--shocked!--that there are people beyond its border who study u

Paul Cantor’s full series from Mises Daily is now available online: Part One: Zombie Apocalypse in a ‘DC’ Comic

Part Two: The Walking Dead and a Refuge from the Modern State

Part Three: The Economics of Apocalypse: A Tale of Two C.D.C.’s

My introduction to Austrian ideas was Hayek under the guidance of Fred Glahe. Hayek led me to Mises and Rothbard. It was Mises, much more than Hayek, that enhanced my understanding of real world economics. When I first began my own intellectual journey, it required diligence and luck to develop a library of the important contributions of the leaders in Austrian thought. Now   thanks to the Mises Institute it is easier and easier to share the insights of these intellectual, Mises, Hayek, and Rothbard, Salerno etc.

NPR has been running a series of sad stories about various taxpayer-funded activities delayed by the non-shutdown. The other day I heard one about a dinosaur skeleton that was supposed to be shipped to the Smithsonian, but will now languish in a warehouse in Montana. I could barely contain my grief.