Mises Wire

Per Bylund

Matthew Feeney writes on the Cato Institute blog about taxi deregulation. As expected, Feeney comes out in favor of deregulation, but also—which should perhaps be equally expected—manages to completely undermine the case for the market.

Carmen Elena Dorobăț

Despite little liberalization, global trade grew rapidly over the last decades only to collapse in 2009. Was this growth healthy, though?

Mark Thornton

The Economic Crash that Cured Itself: A Conversation with James Grant about the Depression of 1921.

Ryan McMaken

Mises Daily Weekend by David Gordon: Thinkers Who Challenged the State

This essay is adapted from David Gordon’s talk at the Costa Mesa Mises Circle. Click here to register for January’s Houston Mises Circle.

Mark Thornton

The Central Bank of Canada Warns of Housing Bubble

Ryan McMaken

If cryptocurrencies like bitcoin are being used as money, and if Carl Menger correctly tells us that money must have some kind of antecedent value, then as economists it becomes our job to discover what exactly is that antecedent value. 

Ryan McMaken

Today's USA Today includes a Q and A about falling oil prices which hints at how the feds and the media will frame the discussion over the economy in coming months.

Mises Institute

Grove City College will host the eleventh annual Austrian Student Scholars Conference, February 20-21, 2015.

John P. Cochran

The only real long run solution to Fed generated higher inflation, slower growth and instability is institutional reform that would support a bottom up movement driven by competition in currencies and eventually a market determined sound money.