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Europeans have long been fearful of the prospects of price deflation, but now that it has arrived they have embraced it.

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.

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.

Federal surveys that measure "food insecurity" are so hopelessly skewed, as to be useless. 

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Lee Kuan Yew , who led the successful effort to turn Singapore into a economic and financial powerhouse, died Monday at age 91. 

"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."

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.

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

It was just a matter of time before Western governments used the trumped up “War on Terror” as an excuse to drastically ratchet up the