Bovard: ‘Nowadays, We Have Elections in Lieu of Freedom’
In case you needed proof that voting has nothing to do with enhancing freedom or controlling government, witness the government's enthusiasm for making voting mandatory.
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Reuter’s Reports that Greece Says it Will Run Out of Money on April 9
Greece's government said that the country would have to choose whether to pay back 450 million euros to the International Monetary Fund on April 9th or pay salaries and pensions.
Repeal, Don’t Reform the IMF
A responsible financial institution would not extend a new loan of between 17 and 40 billion dollars to a borrower already struggling to pay back an existing multi-billion dollar loan. Yet that is just what the International Monetary Fund (IMF) did last month when it extended a new loan to the government of Ukraine.
For April 1: Exclusive Mises Institute Interview with Ben Bernanke!
First, he started up a new blog, and now Ben Bernanke has agreed to an exclusive interview with the Mises Institute for Mises Wire. We sent our correspondent Mateusz Machaj to speak with Ben about business cycles, 100 percent certainty, and why it’s different this time.
Margin Debt At All Time High
Not only are stock markets near all time highs, the amount of margin debt is also at all time highs. Margin debt is money borrowed to leverage the purchasing power of portfolios.
Bylund on Sweden’s Alleged Socialist Successes
Per Bylund spoke about why Sweden is held up as an example of socialist success on the Political Badger show.
The Difference Between Starbucks and The State
When the US Government implements a new law or policy, it's here to stay. No amount of complaining from the taxpayers will lead to a swift reversal in Obamacare, or the TSA, or the US Patriot Act, or NSA spying, or Net Neutrality, at least not without years of "studies" and hearings, and a national "debate."
Who Are Those Free-Market Protestors in Brazil?
In Monday, the Washington Post looked into some of the groups behind the "Less Marx-More Mises" signs found among the anti-Dilma Rousseff protestors in Rio. They found Kim Kataguiri.
Salerno’s “Modest Proposal” paper is in Top 10 Downloads
Joseph Salerno's paper "A Modest Proposal for Reining in the Bernanke Fed" is now in the Top 10 in downloads on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) in the category of "Response to Financial Crisis." (no kidding!) SSRN is the primary depository of working paper in economics and the social sciences. You can download Joe's paper here for free.
Huge Profits Are OK, As Long as You’re Hip and Cool About It
Profit is bad, the left tells us, but if you're really cool, you're allowed to make huge profits and no one will mind.
