Patrick Barron has said in an interview conducted by Merlin Rothfeld and John O'Donnell (both GEI contributors) on Power Trading Radio that he believes Germany should leave the European Union, reinstate the Deutschmark and declare itself a free-trade nation.
Mises Daily Tuesday by Benjamin Wiegold:
The US, Russia, Canada, Denmark, and other states are racing to take control of the Arctic Ocean. Outside of a few tiny outposts, however, these states have never "homesteaded" the region, so their claims of true ownership are fanciful at best.
Some candidates are attempting to make friends with free-market voters, but there are still plenty of voters for whom free markets are like poison.
Mises Daily Monday by Marcia Christoff-Kurapovna:
While not at all perfect, the classical gold standard of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century facilitated some of the greatest leaps in economic prosperity ever witnessed. Marcia Christoff-Kurapovna surveys the views of central bankers and economists of the time.
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.
A responsible financial institution would not extend a new loan of between 17 and 40 billion dollars to a borrower already struggling to pay back an existing multi-billion dollar loan. Yet that is just what the International Monetary Fund (IMF) did last month when it extended a new loan to the government of Ukraine.
