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Nobody follows the Billboard charts anymore. In an age of music downloads, the “Top 40” ranking is pretty meaningless.

September 29 marks the 134th anniversary of the birth of Ludwig von Mises, the tallest giant of the "Austrian School" of economics. Although Mises is not a household name, Nobel laureate Friedrich Hayek once referred to him as "the master of us all."

With a Congress enamored of military spending and elective wars, there's no end in sight for the tax and spend policies that ensure bigger and more lavish treats and amenities for government contractors and military agencies alike.

Mises Daily Monday | Andrew Syrios writes: 

The most effective revolutions are in fact silent, slow, stubborn, and most importantly, peaceful.

In his article last week on the United States’

Peter Klein will give this year’s Raciti Memorial Lecture on entrepreneurship (October 21

The Pope is touring North America this week, promoting a variety of interventionist “solutions” to global warming, poverty, and more. But a far more powerful religious figure, Janet Yellen, continues to pull the levers of the global financial system.

Social media exploded with outrage this week after American investor Martin Shkreli purchased the rights to sell the drug Daraprim and raised the p