[After reading Peter Klein’s interview in Mises Daily today , you’re probably thinking to yourself: “I would love to read more on this, and I want to do it right now.” So, here is the full 3,000-word original version of the interview, thanks to eTalks. -ed] Editor’s Note: Peter Klein , is Executive Director and Carl Menger Research Fellow of the
Interviewed by host Alan Butler, Mark Thornton discusses the current economic situation, the end of Prohibition, the Articles of Confederation, and several other interesting topics.
By Laurence Vance The so-called Bush tax cuts were, unfortunately, set by Republicans to expire at the end of 2010. Although they were extended, with modifications, and then extended again, with more modifications, this Republican blunder has led—like so many of their other actions—to an increase in the welfare state. The Bush tax cuts, the
From The Financial Times: The international financial crisis has sparked calls for a radical rethink of economics teaching, with critics calling for professors of the dismal science to pay more attention to finance and history. But students from the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution have had their hopes for a course on financial crashes
Interviewed by host Alan Butler, Mark Thornton explains why the Crack-Up Boom phase of a fiat money collapse is one of the scariest economic phenomena in human history. Listen here.
By Butler Shaffer Before anyone jumps to the conclusion that I am insensitive to the fate of the 239 persons aboard Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, and to their families and friends, let me assure you that I empathize as much as others with the suffering inflicted upon these people. But there is something more significant about the presumed deaths
By Murray Rothbard From Anatomy of the State : What the State fears above all, of course, is any fundamental threat to its own power and its own existence. The death of a State can come about in two major ways: (a) through conquest by another State, or (b) through revolutionary overthrow by its own subjects?in short, by war or revolution. War and
by David Stockman From David Stockman’s Contra Corner . Remarks to the Committee For The Republic, Washington DC, February 2014 (Part 5 in a 6-Part Series) Go to Part 1. World War II soon delivered another blow to the old-time fiscal religion. Not only did that vast expansion of war production fuel the illusion that New Deal statism had
Frank Hollenbeck sends along this video explaining in further detail his discussion from the weekend’s Mises Daily .
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