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Ryan McMaken

Editor, Mises Wire and The Austrian

Tags Bureaucracy and RegulationEducationThe EnvironmentStrategyTaxes and SpendingPolitical Theory

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Ryan McMaken (@ryanmcmaken) is a senior editor at the Mises Institute. Send him your article submissions for Mises Wire and The Austrian, but read article guidelines first. Ryan has degrees in economics and political science from the University of Colorado, and was the economist for the Colorado Division of Housing from 2009 to 2014. He is the author of Commie Cowboys: The Bourgeoisie and the Nation-State in the Western Genre.

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Americans Have Much More Living Space than Europeans

US Economy
03/11/2019Power & Market

The average American dwelling unit is at least 50 to 75 percent larger than the average European unit.

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There's No Evidence that Women Were "Forced" to Enter the Work Force "Just to Keep Up"

Labor
03/11/2019Power & Market

There's no evidence that women "had to" enter the workforce just to maintain the standard of living of the mid-twentieth century. In fact, female workforce participation was increasing right as real wages and household incomes were going up sizably.

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Europe's Latest Attack on Free Speech

Politics
03/11/2019Power & Market

p> A European court has ruled that people can be fined and prosecuted in criminal court for saying things about religious figures. Specifically, saying things about the Muslim prophet Mohammad is verboten, and state punishment is appropriate:

The European Court of Human Rights has...

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New Houses Are Getting Smaller — But They're Still Much Larger Than What Your Grandparents Had

Blog03/08/2019

The size of new houses has shrunk since 2015. (Houses are still two-thirds larger than they were 50 years ago.) But will local governments let developers build smaller, simpler, more affordable housing?

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Fed Reports Big Drop In Household Net Worth for 4th Q 2018

Global Economy
03/07/2019Power & Market

The Federal Reserve Board of Governors today released a new report today noting changes in net worth for households and nonprofit organizations.

As a result, the Drudge Report featured, at the page top, the headline " Households see biggest decline in net worth since the financial...

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