I found this site fun (but not useful) when building my lake. Thanks for subsidizing my entertainment budget. After all you paid for the photos shown here via your taxes. Looks like they have a boat dock in the development where Mises Rd is located.
In an article titled “ How To Defang All The Banks Once for all “ author J. N. Tlaga takes on “the dean of the Austrian School of economics” to argue that “Fractional reserve banking per se cannot produce new money out of thin air.” Using a set of examples, his main argument is that, contrary to Mises, fractional reserve banking and full 100%
Judging from this news report at CNN, it appears that the judge in Martha Stewart’s trial is not going to allow her to present a defense. “Among the limitations: Stewart’s lawyers can’t say she was being prosecuted for proclaiming her innocence in the case or for asserting her First Amendment right to free speech. The defense also is barred from
South Euclid loses out on tax windfall since the city charter wasn’t updated to tax lottery winnings. “It’s not a good day for the city,” Mayor Georgine Welo said Monday. “We were all excited until we went to go for the money and learned that we are not entitled to it. We are very saddened by the news.” So instead of feeling happy about the good
Pardon my french. The governmental disinformation campaign on deregulation continues. First there was the California energy crisis and now the northeastern blackout. According to this article in Newsday the final investigative report concludes that deregulation played a role in the Aug 14th blackout. As you can surmise from the article the
Part of the problem with using U.S. antitrust laws to shake down domestic corporations is that the same strategy can be used by foreign countries to implement trade protectionism and increased taxation against those same companies—as is evidenced by the current European attack on
I woke up this morning to an apparently normal universe. I saw what looked like the usual fair over at CNN, an article titled “A return to gas lines and rationing?” . Upon reading it I discovered I was in an alternate universe where news articles actually contain sound economic reasoning. I haven’t decided yet if I wish to get back to my own
When Guliani ran for mayor of New York in 1993 he mocked that the OTB, a government agency, was “the only bookie joint in New York that loses money.” The current crisis hitting the Dutch health ministry indicates that its agency is “the only ‘joint’ joint in Netherlands that loses money.” The governmental marijuana is less potent and more
What is the Mises Institute?
The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.
Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.