Sunday of the Blind, or the Failed Revolution
Revolutions and protests, violent or peaceful, only momentarily overcome the habit of civil obedience La Boétie talks about.
Mises Wire
US Soldiers Are Paid Significantly More than Civilians with Similar Skills and Education
For years, Americans have been often exposed to a persistent myth that American military personnel are shamefully underpaid and generally taken for gr
FOMC: We’ll Raise Rates Some Day; We’re “Hawkish” Now
The Fed's Federal Open Market Committee released a brief statement on its decision to not raise the federal funds rate. The language sounds very familiar.
The War on Cars Is a War on Workers and the Poor
Government planners are fond of dreaming up new ways to force people out of their cars. But automobiles have long been a boon to ordinary working people who can access less expensive goods and better jobs because of them.
Spectre
James Bond is not a name that's typically mentioned in discussions of humble foreign policy or the importance of enforceable property rights.
Robert Shiller Imagines What Consumers Should Want, While Ignoring What They Do Want
Neoclassical economists make too many assumptions and decree that the desires of consumers must conform to some external definition of what's "rational." But consumers like to decide for themselves what they want, and when they want it.
There’s More to Money than Hyperinflation
It’s common to paint Austrians as doom-and-gloom prophets of economic collapse, with little to offer besides paranoid predictions of hyperinflations and monetary collapses lurking around every corner.
Pew: Homicide Rates Cut in Half Over Past 20 Years (While New Gun Ownership Soared)
The Pew Research Center reported last week that the murder rate was cut nearly in half from 7 per 100,000 in 1993 to 3.6 per 100,000 in 2013.
The Fed Can’t Raise Rates, But Must Pretend It Will
The Fed has a difficult balancing act. To maintain the current easy-money induced boom, it must not raise rates. But at the same time, it must also act as if it might raise rates some day, or savers will abandon the credit markets.
Mises Weekends: Dr. Michel Accad
On the latest episode of Mises Weekends, Jeff Deist and Dr. Michel Accad discuss practicing medicine in the Age of Obamacare.
