Sour Grapes: Politicians launch scorched earth campaign against own city in bid to raise taxes
It turns our that after the voters of Colorado Springs rejected a tax increase for the city, the city’s politicians ordered their public relations
Mises Wire
Taki on Hoppe and the Austrians
An interesting article from Taki about the writer’s time with Hoppe
Another Episode of the Great Unemployment Mystery
The ADP report on unemployment looks terrible: private sector hiring mostly stagnant overall.
Would a War on Immigrants Turn Out Like the Wars on Drugs and Terror?
Probably. Here’s Ryan McMaken, from the LewRockwell.com Blog:
Economics, Left-Liberalism, and Bleeding-Heart Libertarianism
John Tomasi is guest-blogging for Bleeding-Heart Libertarians on a research agenda for bleeding-heart libertarians.
Powell on Myths About Immigration
Benjamin Powell knocks out three of the myths about immigration: they’re a drag on the economy (false!), they take our jobs (false!), and they lowe
Knowledge and Markets: a Lesson from McDonald’s
I write this from the playground at a McDonald’s just off of Interstate 81 in Harrisonburg, Virginia, where we’ve just finished a predictable McDon
Should we be writing about fundamentals or wrangling over difficult internal issues?
Let’s just take it for granted that there needs to be a division of labor: some people covering fundamentals and others working on difficult inside
Unpaid Internships, Labor Legislation, and Inequality
People respond to incentives. When governments change incentives, people respond in ways that produce unintended results.
