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?
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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.
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Joseph Salerno Appointed to Mises Institute’s New Peterson-Luddy Chair in Austrian Economics
Professor Joseph Salerno, Academic Vice President at the Mises Institute, was installed to the new Peterson-Luddy Chair in Austrian Economics on March 13, 2015 at the 2015 Austrian Economics Research Conference.
Selgin Rides Again
Like a good guy in an old Western determined to put things aright, George Selgin has once again arrived on the scene shooting from the hip--an
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.
