Mises Wire

During the late 19th century and early 20th, a confluence of circumstances transformed the United States into an industrial giant.

John Nash, who won the 1994 Nobel Prize in economics, praised the gold standard in a recent talk at Fordham.

Think of General Motors as the metaphor of the Keynesian economy in one company -- massive simultaneous spending on unsustainable capital investmen

Robert Murphy and Robert Higgs have said this for months, but

So, Joe Stiglitz is weighing in on the crisis with an article with

This question was put to

Several weeks ago the Southern Economics Association held its 78th annual meeting.

There’s been a good deal of discussion lately of the legitimacy of corporations: see my posts

Walter Block rightly notes that Loyola University New Orleans and Grove

It was a dead heat. General Motors sold 9.37 million vehicles worldwide in 2007 and lost $38.7 billion.