How Big Is Government in the United States?
How big is government in the United States? The answer depends on the concept used to define its size.
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Fed Tries to Figure Out How to Raise Interest Rates by a 1/4 of 1%
The Fed has been messing with interest rates for a century and suddenly they have forgotten how to raise interest rates?
A Reality Check on Defense Spending
Time reports that Rand Paul has come out in favor of a sizable boost to defense spending.
Europeans Overcoming Their Apoplithorismosphobia
Europeans have long been fearful of the prospects of price deflation, but now that it has arrived they have embraced it.
Money Emergence in Video Game Worlds
One great thing about innovation in gaming is that the more complex and realistic games get, the more they begin to mirror real-world economic principles.
Does a Growing Economy Require an Expanding Money Supply?
Money's main job is simply to fulfill the role of the medium of exchange. Money doesn't sustain or fund real economic activity. The means of sustenance are provided by saved real goods and services.
Skewing the ‘Food Insecurity’ Numbers
Federal surveys that measure "food insecurity" are so hopelessly skewed, as to be useless.
Join Us in the NYC Area
Register here for our upcoming Mises Circle in Stamford, Connecticut, on Thursday, May 7.
The Man Behind Singapore’s Transition to Economic Powerhouse, Lee Kuan Yew, Dead at 91
Lee Kuan Yew , who led the successful effort to turn Singapore into a economic and financial powerhouse, died Monday at age 91.
Guido Hülsmann Talks Financial Repression
"Financial Repression is the name we give to all the different government interventions in which governments seek to improve their own bargaining position with financial markets."
