Mises Wire

I have lived in Auburn, Alabama, for more than three decades and have never seen a Super Sized Construction Crane. Last week, two were erected in the middle of town.

Commentators have called the last Republican debate "thermonuclear" and similar adjectives, but not "ill-mannered", which it was. Is this because good manners no longer matter? Or, do good manners actually count against you?

The precarious and hostile coexistence between central banks and cash just ended. Earlier today the European Central Bank's Governing Council voted to withdraw the 500-euro note (worth $558) from circulation.

Does he realize what this would do to jobs?

As anger builds at the arrogance of central bankers, it’s becoming ever clearer that there is no plan for monetary policy to return to “normal.” As Robert Murphy explained at our recent event in Houston, the Fed’s magic trick just won’t work.

Drafting women into the military has suddenly become the latest frontier in achieving "equality." If we want real equality though, we need only agree to never force men into coerced service to the state, either.

Wilhelm Röpke died on this date fifty years ago. He was an excellent economist thoroughly grounded in a realistic view of human action and who, therefore, continually fought against the dehumanizing effects of Keynesian and mathematical economics.

In this respect, the European Commission is actually less bad than the US government. The EU apparently still uses 500-euro notes, whereas the Us abolished it's $500 and $1,000 notes back in the 1930s.

Rothbard's book is considered the standard on the subject of the 1819 crisis, yet the NY Fed authors seem reluctant to speak his name.