Mises Wire

Today is F. A. Hayek’s birthday (and, incidentally, mine).

Mark Thornton explains why the government’s latest unemployment numbers are a sham, and the labor market is nowhere near recovered.

With the Dow Jones closing above 16,600 for the first time ever last week, investors are overjoyed by the signal this sends.

Janet Yellen spoke to lawmakers today.

Like Peter Lewin,

By Sterling T. Terrell 

Thanks to Contrpoints for the French translation of Robert Higgs’s article that appeared

…newspapers buzzed with the news that former Secretary of State Richard Olney declined President Woodrow Wilson’s request that he serve as the firs

Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century has drawn raves from the many uncritical pundits and academics on the left.