Mises Wire

Ryan McMaken
Shawn Ritenour reviews Randall Holcombe's new Austrian econ textbook Advanced Introduction to the Austrian School ofEconomics in Libertarian Papers.  (I interviewed Dr. Holcombe about the book in The Free Market.) 
Matthew McCaffrey

Last year, British entrepreneur Mike Watts made headlines when he opened England’s first private toll road in more than a hundred years. The road has now been closed, but its brief history provides a sad (and all-too-typical) example of how government sabotages entrepreneurs and hurts their customers.

Randall G. Holcombe

... is that you know who your enemies and opponents are.

Ryan McMaken

Just in case you have any thoughts that people at the Fed might have become slightly less dovish on inflation, rest assured, they have not. 

Carmen Elena Dorobăț

As of this week, when Eurozone price inflation reached negative levels, ECB's Mario Draghi decided to throw caution to the wind and brace “for further measures, which could, if needed, be implemented in a timely manner”. Estimates for the European QE program are around €500 billion, but the overall size and timescale will most likely remain open-ended.

Ryan McMaken

Some observations from others...

Ryan McMaken

The film’s most redeeming quality can be found in the fact that it makes the US intelligence apparatus look useless and inept.

Ryan McMaken

A French students writes on today's violent attack on French journalists.