Thanks to Helio Beltrão and Instituto Ludwig von Mises Brasil for Definindo a Liberdade, the new Portuguese-language translation of Ron Paul’s book Liberty Defined: 50 Essential Issues That Affect Our Freedom. From the summary:
A new NBER paper documents a strong, secular increase in US corporate borrowing during the Keynesian era.
by Ron Paul
The reaction of Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) to last week’s revelations that the CIA secretly searched Senate Intelligence Committee computers reveals much about what the elites in government think about the rest of us.
“Spy on thee, but not on me!” The hypocrisy of Sen. Feinstein is astounding. She is the biggest backer of the NSA spying on the rest of us, but when the tables are turned and her staff is the target she becomes irate.
In a review of Diane Coyle’s GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History, aptly titled “Measuring the Unmeasurable,” James Grant highlights many of the difficulties involved in aggregate statistical attempts to measure economic activity. Grant summarizes critical problems in one succinct sentence, “Imagine deciding which nation produces what in a global supply chain. Or correcting price for quality improvements.
Keynesians Again Revive the Phillips Curve Folly Robert Higgs has provided a most applicable biblical passage that very aptly describes the continuing knee jerk revival of the Keynesian follies during this Fed-Bush-Obama Great Recession and Great Stagnation:
“As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.” Psalm 26:11.
Pete Boettke at Coordination Problem highlights the excellent work by Ben Powell in the Misesian tradition (links added).
Here is my recent interview on Power Trading Radio with John O’Donnell and Merlin Rothfeld. We discuss, among other things, for a look at the growing currency war as well as the battle for natural resources around the world.
They regularly interview Austrian economists on Friday afternoons at 6:00 pm Eastern and give away a gold coin to listeners. Listeners can also submit questions to the experts.
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.”
