Football Parking 2025
Wall Street admits the US is in the midst of an economic slowdown
“Though it may have been controversial, the July jobs report helped confirm the notion that the U.S. economic engine is sputtering.”
Ukraine’s Army opens its ranks to 60-year-olds
Militaries on the verge of collapse often recruit old men and young boys.
Netanyahu to urge ‘full conquest’ of Gaza
Netanyahu will urge a meeting of the security cabinet on Tuesday to support the full “conquest of the Strip” according to reports in Israeli media.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Pitches Eyeball-Scanning World ID to Bankers
Altman is pushing a single global AI-controlled source of ID verification.
From Bad to Worse, Irish Rent Control
Since submitting my last piece on this subject, the Irish government has produced their proposals for “revising” the system of rent control in Ireland.
From Bad to Worse, Irish Rent Control
Mises University 2025
I’d like to begin by telling you something about how I founded the Mises Institute in 1982 and what we are trying to accomplish. Forty-five years ago, when I was contemplating the creation of a Ludwig von Mises Institute, the Austrian School of economics, and its Misesian branch in particular, were very much in decline. The number of Misesian economists was so small that all of them knew each other personally and could probably have fit in Mises’s small living room. This is a world that young people today, who find Austrian economics all over the place, can hardly imagine.
Cold War 2.0 Heats Up
Last week the nuclear rhetoric between the US and Russia made some of us feel like we were transported back to 1962. Back then, Soviet moves to place nuclear-capable missiles 90 miles off our coast in Cuba led to the greatest crisis of the Cold War. The United States and its president, John F. Kennedy, could not tolerate such weapons placed by a hostile power on its doorstep and the world only knew years later how close we were to nuclear war.