Mises Wire

Here’s a simple quiz:

For a mayor running for reelection, which situation would cause the most worry?

This segment of “This American Life” is act

• Panic of 1792
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Leonard Read’s classic “I, Pencil” is a staple of introductory economics classes the world over.

While the real world has switched from defined benefit pension plans to defined contribution plans (e.g.

In 1998 Paul Krugman declared “It’s Baaack” in a silly article heralding the return of the Keynesian liquidity trap, a chimera th

Four years after housing prices peaked the number of foreclosures

State court judges in New York a

One year ago today a major earthquake devastated Haiti’s capital city of Port-au-Prince.

I’ve disagreed before with J.