It’s official. It is now The United States of America v. Donald J. Trump.

A Los Angeles Lakers jersey worn by basketball legend Wilt Chamberlain is expected to sell for more than $4 million in a forthcoming Sotheby’s auction.  Chamberlain wore the jersey in the fifth game of the 1972 NBA championship series between the Lakers and the New York Knicks, which was won by the Lakers.  The previous record for Chamberlain memorabilia was set just a few months ago when another jersey worn by Wilt as a Philadelphia Warriors’ rookie sold for a mere $1.79

Michael Huemer has made my life easier. One of my tasks at the Mises Institute is to teach praxeology to students, and doing so involves explaining a priori knowledge (i.e., what we can know just by thinking about it), a notion which many students find difficult to grasp. The task becomes even harder when you add that the a priori knowledge in question is “synthetic” knowledge that isn’t analytically true but that we can still know to be true just by thinking about it.

Why have central banks settled on a 2 percent price inflation target? Project Syndicate asked four economists about this target and whether it is still appropriate. I’ll summarize their answers and then consider Mises’s position on “stabilization policy.”

The tyrannical threat of the biomedical security state is ever present.

While those that cheered for lockdowns, vaccine mandates, and the shutdown of the global economy retreat to the back pages of the news, the World Health Organization and their ilk are already gearing up for the next crisis. The covid scare may have lost its political potency, but you can be sure that “public health emergencies” will continue to be a powerful tool for future control.