Mises Wire

Jeff Deist and Adam Vass Gal discuss why the State is a villain of the downtrodden.

Patrick Barron writes:
Recently a friend sent me the updated Wikipedia link about the newly formed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank that has been in the news so much, mostly gathering glowing endorsements that this is a great undertaking.

If you use public roads or other government "services," does this mean the government can regulate everything you do? 

In case you needed proof that voting has nothing to do with enhancing freedom or controlling government, witness the government's enthusiasm for making voting mandatory. 

Greece's government said that the country would have to choose whether to pay back 450 million euros to the International Monetary Fund on April 9th or pay salaries and pensions.

Per Bylund spoke about why Sweden is held up as an example of socialist success on the Political Badger show. 

When the US Government implements a new law or policy, it's here to stay. No amount of complaining from the taxpayers will lead to a swift reversal in Obamacare, or the TSA, or the US Patriot Act, or NSA spying, or Net Neutrality, at least not without years of "studies" and hearings, and a national "debate."

In Monday, the Washington Post looked into some of the groups behind the "Less Marx-More Mises" signs found among the anti-Dilma Rousseff protestors in Rio. They found Kim Kataguiri.

Joseph Salerno's paper "A Modest Proposal for Reining in the Bernanke Fed" is now in the Top 10 in downloads on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) in the category of "Response to Financial Crisis." (no kidding!) SSRN is the primary depository of working paper in economics and the social sciences. You can download Joe's paper here for free.

Profit is bad, the left tells us, but if you're really cool, you're allowed to make huge profits and no one will mind.