Today's Mises Daily: Many people think of their investments and their money in the bank as their savings, but savings and money are not the same thing. Nor will creating more money create more savings.
The banking system in the United States today functions largely as a spy agency for the federal government.
Discussed by Michael Oliver on Jay Taylor Radio.
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.
