Mises Wire
The Week In Review: November 7, 2015
There were many state and local elections in the US this week, but few of them will result in anything that will combat widely held and popular errors about central banking, drug prohibition, and the global environment.
LIVE! Mises Circle in Phoenix
Live broadcast of Ron Paul, Lew Rockwell, Jeff Deist, William Boyes, and Charles Goyette in Phoenix, Arizona.
Activists Seek to Impoverish Thai Villagers to Save Monkeys from “Slavery”
Farmers have been using monkeys to harvest coconuts in Thailand for hundreds of years. But now, animal rights activists have decided that these farmers should have their livelihoods destroyed in order to save the monkeys from "slavery".
Life Expectancy: If Denmark Were a US State, It Would Rank Equal To or Worse Than Sixteen US States
The OECD released new life expectancy data this week. The agency then blamed the US's slightly lower numbers on not enough government spending on health care. This rather oversimplifies the matter, to say the least.
For WHO, Red Meat Is a Red Herring
The World Health Organization has declared that eating meat will kill you. But the WHO's war on meat is not really about your health. It's about "saving the planet" from the latest industry that has been deemed "unsustainable" by global elites.
Yellen on Negative Interest Rates
In Janet Yellen's Q&A with the House Financial Services Committee, Rep. Tom Emmer asked about the possibility and consequences of negative interest rates.
DEA Releases New Drug Overdose Death Figures: Guns Safer than Prescription Drugs
"Drug overdose deaths are the leading cause of injury death in the United States, ahead of deaths from motor vehicle accidents and firearms."
Much of that “Redistributed” Wealth Goes Back to the Same Groups That Paid For It
Americans and Europeans redistribute a lot of wealth. But that doesn't mean it goes from high-income people to low-income people. In fact, a lot of government money goes back to the income groups that it came from. After the government takes its cut.
Samuel Moyn and Christian Human Rights
Samuel Moyn, a distinguished intellectual historian, argues that both Catholics and Protestants began in the 1930s to defend human rights and dignity, giving these ideas a conservative interpretation.
