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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Are Bank Failures a Sign of More Trouble Ahead?

Ron Paul

Some have wrongly blamed the current bank failures on the Federal Reserve’s interest rate increases. The real problem is how the Fed encouraged the entire financial system to get addicted to easy money.

It Turns Out That Hundreds of Banks Are at Risk

Peter St. Onge

Federal authorities want us to believe that by bailing out Silicon Valley Bank, they have prevented a financial crisis. Instead, we will have a crisis with bailouts.

Central Bank Digital Currencies Would Bring Hyperinflation

Daniel Lacalle

The only thing that saves citizens from much higher prices is the fact that the transmission mechanism of monetary policy is independent and diversified. Imagine if that transmission was direct and had only one channel, the central bank itself.

Help Us Publish Professor Hülsmann's New Book

Jeff Deist

Only the unhampered capitalist economy allows full and unfettered charity to flourish in society. Dr. Hülsmann’s new book makes the case for private property, sound money, and private charity as the building blocks for a healthy society.

No, We Don't Need More Nuclear Weapons

Ryan McMaken

Advocates for more military spending tell us the taxpayer must pay to expand the US's nuclear arsenal. Because of China. In truth, the US's arsenal is in no danger of not "keeping up."

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