January's Top Ten Most-Read Articles

02/01/2017Mises Institute

January's top ten most-read articles by page views. These do not include hits for mises.org articles reprinted on other high-traffic sites like ZeroHedge and Business Insider:

No Country Should be Bigger than This by Ryan McMaken
A Tariff with Mexico Will Ensure Americans Pay for Border Wall by Tho Bishop
The Dangers of a Universal Basic Income by Nathan Keeble
What Trump Could Do by Jeff Deist
Restaurants Eliminate Waiters in Response to Minimum Wage Hike by Ryan McMaken
How Bad Entrepreneurial Judgment Killed Half-Life 3 by Matt McCaffrey
Which States Rely Most on Federal Spending by Ryan McMaken
What Republicans Miss About Healthcare Reform by Tho Bishop
What Puerto Rico Can Teach Us About the Minimum Wage by Brittany Hunter
Will Automation Make Us Poor? by Arron Bailey

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Living Libertarian: Brief Biographies

David Gordon

Why do people become libertarians? What attracts them to Austrian economics?

The Menendez Indictments: Understanding Business as Usual in Washington

Connor O'Keeffe

Official Washington is shocked—shocked!—at the alleged influence peddling by Senator Robert Menendez. But it is the pursuit of empire and attempts by Washington to meddle everywhere that make such peddling so profitable.

The Dangerous Myth of a "Soft Landing"

Daniel Lacalle

If the only antidote offered to prevent a 2008-style contraction is monetary easing, then the risk of stagflation is even higher. Without drastic cuts to deficit spending, or a recession, the likely outcome is stagflation.

The Fed Holds the Fed Funds Rate Steady—Because it Doesn't Know What Else To Do

Ryan McMaken

If we read between the lines, it is apparent that the Fed is hoping that price inflation will fall to politically acceptable levels without any additional tightening, and without a recession. But "hope" is all the Fed has.

Stop Trying to "Contain" China in Southeast Asia

Jeremy Powell

President Biden is trying to entice Vietnam to enter into an alliance with the USA to try to "contain" China and its Asian ambitions. This will not end well.

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