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Economists Don’t Use Mathematics ‘the way physicists or biologists or engineers use it.’

06/04/2015 Ryan McMaken

In a recent methodological flare-up among economists, Paul Romer accuses Robert Lucas , among others, of "mathiness":

Rockwell: We Need a Separation of Banking and State

06/04/2015 Mises Institute

In this essay from 2001, Lew Rockwell discusses what were then new mandates on banks to spy on all depositors and investors. Such efforts are now commonplace, of course, and have merged into the current war on cash.

Appetite for Risk or Appetite for Destruction?

06/03/2015 Joseph T. Salerno

The policy of the Bernanke-Yellen Fed to whet investors’ appetite for risk by maintaining short-term interest ra

First Mises Video to Reach 1,000,000 Views?

06/03/2015 Ryan McMaken

We just noticed that this video on The Fed and money — originally made in the mid 90s — has received over a million views since it was posted on Youtube in 2006

Japan’s Demographic Atom Bomb

06/03/2015 Mises Institute

Andy Sirkis: Japanese people and government officials are well aware of the problem. People fret and say that “something needs to be done”, but there is little analysis of the disastrous economic and geopolitical effects and no analysis of the causes and potential solutions. People really have their heads buried in the sand, perhaps because they think it’s going to be someone else’s problem when the country’s population falls from 125 million to 85 million and half of the remaining people are elderly.