This decision is a major victory for Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne, who has long advocated the potential for block chain, the technology behind bitcoin, to decentralize — and revolutionize — the financial services industry.
The European Central Bank (ECB) made waves recently with its decision to lower interest rates on its deposit facility to -0.30%. That means that banks wanting to park their money at the ECB have to pay the ECB for that privilege.
As I mention in today's Daily, one of the really exciting developments in the continued growth of the Austrian school is what is going on in Brazil.
Today, just one day prior to the announcement of the FED’s decision as to whether or not they will raise rates, the financial headlines are awash w
Students don't care about Keynes when school is out. To the extent that Mises and Hayek get a school "bump", students stay interested even when school is out.
Pew recently reported on how the homicide rate in the US has been cut in half over the past twenty years, even as gun ownership has greatly expanded in the US. The US public, meanwhile, thinks the murder rate is increasing.
Luckily for us all, Mises survived the war and went on to live a life that fundamentally altered the world. He overcame the Nazis, academic blacklists, and the personal hardships that tends to haunt any man who refuses to sacrifice his principles.
The Mises Institute has been named the 9th Most Influential US Think Tank by TheBestSchools.org, a leading online resource for campus and online education.
An opinion piece in today's WSJ on the collapsing Brazilian economy extensively quotes a spokesman for Mises Institute Brazil, as well as cites articles from the institute's website.
