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Floods, Snow, and Opportunity Cost
A reminder that economics applies even to floods and snow. Everything choice is a trade-off and subject to opportunity cost.
Another Way to Reduce Access to Health Care
Outlaw emergency rooms that aren’t owned by politically well-connected hospitals.
Winter 2013 Issue of QJAE Now Online
Featured in this issue of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics (Vol. 16, No. 4):
Minimum Wage Mendacity
With President Obama’s State of the Union Address and its associated campaign prominently featuring increased minimum wage, tired arguments for rai
Canada’s Tidal Wave of Credit
Over at Mises Canada I explore the following unfortunate facts concernin
More Bank Runs Coming
After last week´s decision by HSBC to halt its policy of not honoring large withdrawal requests by depositors comes news of the Russian bank “My Ba