Mises Institute President Jeff Deist discusses the the Mises Institute and Austrian Economics on the Korelin Economics Report radio program. Click on Segments 7 and 8 to hear or download Jeff’s segment of the show. (Audio, approximately 20 minutes.)

Overstock.com’s CEO Patrick Byrne explains some reasons why Overstock now accepts Bitcoins:

Everyone loves (or loves to hate) these two articles about Ebenezer Scrooge’s many great economic services to humanity. Butler Shaffer writes in “The Case for Ebenezer“:

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This article from the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics is an appreciation of economist B.R. Shenoy by Sandeep Prakash.

Dave Howden, editor, has announced the release of the first issue of the new  The Journal of Prices & Markets from the Ludwig von Mises Institute of Canada. This journal should be a great new outlet for Austrian influenced economists to complement QJAE and RAE. HT to all who worked so hard bring this new journal to fruition and congratulations to all the vol. 1 authors.  

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Jeff Deist has joined the Mises Institute as President, following many years as an advisor to Ron Paul and as a tax attorney specializing in mergers and acquisitions for private equity clients. Jeff was Congressman Paul’s chief of staff during the 2012 election, and his press secretary in  Congress from 2000 to 2006. He and his wife Paula have two children.

Recently, Peter G. Klein appeared on the “The Wilkow Majority” radio program. In this excerpt, host Anthony Wilkow and Peter Klein discuss government intervention in healthcare and some of the resulting unintended consequences and market distortions.  

Block’s Defending the Undefendable has needled and irritated an entire generation of readers and compelled many to re-examine long-held beliefs in favor of the logic of libertarianism. Now comes volume 2, with a foreword by Ron Paul, that promises more such irritation for future generations.