Mises Wire

The Federal reserve has bowed to the interests of Wall Street and the financial sector, yet again.

While fewer people work in manufacturing jobs today, American workers make more stuff than ever before, thanks to huge strides in productivity. Meanwhile, many people working in the much-maligned service sector make more than those still in manufacturing.

Job growth in the United States is weaker than one might believe based on the "we've created millions of jobs" mantra.

Nowhere are bigger gains being made in the battle of ideas than in Brazil.

Many people have figured out that Wall Street and Washington, DC work together to rig the game in Wall Street's favor.

In this interview, Claudio Grass talks to economist and Mises Institute Senior Fellow Thomas DiLorenzo. Dr. DiLorenzo covers central bank monetary policies, Keynesian economics, the economic “recovery,” political correctness, and more.

Murray Rothbard examines the origins of the Federal Reserve in light of the history of the Progressive movement.

The consequences of our government’s rigged society are all around us, be it the increasing reliance on food stamps, a far reaching tax system, or the gratuitous examples of well-connected elites enriching themselves from state intervention.

If you seek speculative plays to make you millions, this is not the book to read. The authors of Austrian School for Investors have a much more important goal: to make the reader "more sober, steadfast and responsible."

Fetter's neglected work is the source of some of the greatest insights in Austrian economics, and deeply influenced Mises, Rothbard, and others.