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Mises Daily Tuesday by Matt McCaffrey: "The Mises fellowship has been the single most important influence in my development as a scholar," writes Matt McCaffrey.

Are Rising Subprime Mortgages a Small Sign of Big Things to Come?

In Europe so far; Germany has been repatriating gold since 2012 from the US and France, The Netherlands has repatriated 122.5 tonnes a few weeks ago from the US, soon after Marine Le Pen, leader of the Front National party of France, penned an open letter to Christian Noyer, governor of the Bank of France, requesting that the country’s gold holdings be repatriated back to France, and now Belgium is making a move.

Mises Daily Monday: James Grant Explains "The Forgotten Depression".

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.

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

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

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.

The Central Bank of Canada Warns of Housing Bubble

Mises Daily Friday: Government Save Us From "Overpriced" Chinese Food