Mises Wire

Today's Mises Daily: Economist Philipp Bagus talks with us from Europe about the Swiss franc, the euro, and what the future holds for the debt-laden governments of the Eurozone.

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard details the increasing level of Greek defiance to its ECB overlords in the wake of a left-wing, populist uprising in recent Greek elections.

The old Keynesian idea that war is good for the economy is not taken seriously by anyone outside the New York Times op-ed page. But much of the discussion still focuses on macroeconomic effects.

Yesterday when I went for my infusion, I brought two items of reading material with me; The Wall Street Journal and Steve Horwitz's forthcoming paper in the Spring 2015 issue of Social Philosophy and Policy, "Inequality, Mobility, and Being Poor in America."

Mark Thornton has been making the rounds as usual, with a variety of new podcast and radio interviews across the country.

Mark Thornton explains to the Daily Caller what the ECB (and the Fed) are up to.

For as long as political and ideological movements have sought to engage large followings, they have embraced slogans and catch phrases that give pithy expression to their views, aversions, and objectives.

Robert Higgs recently published "Two Ideological Ships Passing in the Night" in the Jan 2015 issue of Econ Journal Watch.

Has the Mises Institute been taken over by huge corporations?

Over the weekend Target Liberty posted a very compelling interview with Friedrich Hayek that I had never seen before.