Mises.org has been pushed very hard to comment on the Bitcoin issue, and I’ve probably read and sent 10 articles around for review. We’ve run nothing on it just because the right piece that takes full account of both the technology and robust monetary theory just hasn’t been written. In the meantime, it seems that Bitcoin is tanking.

Amazon.com vs the Taxman is still in the news. Numerous states are still trying to stick their paws into Amazon’s pot to grab some of the company’s dough by nailing it with their sales tax laws.

This is just the latest empirical example backing up William Anderson’s arguments showing that water is distributed by political means. But it also shows that very little is used by the suburbs even though one of the central talking points of the environmentalist left for years has been that urban “sprawl” itself a result of government intervention - is using up all the resources. In reality, it is the agricultural interests, who get sweetheart deals for cheap water, who are using up the resources. http://mises.org/daily/1557

     Occupy Wall Street (OWS) is exploding like a force of nature into the streets and around the globe. Libertarians are deeply conflicted in their responses to the protest because the movement’s message is deeply flawed and often cacophonous.

Here are three principles we should employ if we want to distinguish between 1. The long-run effects and the short-run effects of policies and programs aren’t always the same. We might incur short-run costs in order to get long-run benefits. Similarly, short-run benefits might come with long-run costs. 2. Interventions don’t occur in isolation, and they don’t stay

I have a long, fairly detailed and systematic blog post up at The Libertarian Standard discussing the demands of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement for an end to “corporate personhood,” and a host of related issues:

Corporate Personhood, Limited Liability, and Double Taxation

by Stephan Kinsella on October 18, 2011 @ 2:56 pm

This Chronicle of Higher Education piece on anarchism and its influence on the Occupy Wall Street protests is a pretty interesting read that gets at some of the complexities of a movement that’s obviously much more than spoiled rich kids upset that they don’t have the cash to upgrade to the new iPhone but obviously much less than a thoughtful criticism of systematic distortions in the banking system.