Mises Wire

Why Is Bernanke Trying to Fight the Bear?

Tags: Booms and Busts, The Fed

01/30/2008 • Frank Shostak

Last Tuesday, January 22, 2008, the US central bank lowered its federal funds rate target by a hefty 0.75% to 3.5%.

A Creditors’ Protection Bill

01/29/2008 • George Reisman

The Fed and the rest of the government seem to think that their job is always to be sure tha

Cheering NPR

01/29/2008 • Jim Fedako

I never thought I’d be cheering NPR, but Michelle Norris really makes Se

Too sexy for mundane tasks

01/29/2008 • Jim Fedako

I briefly watched CNN International this morn

Last Knight Live Blog 24 - Kraus

01/28/2008 • Lorenz Kraus

It is said that no other book on economics has done more to advance sound economics than Human Action: A Treatise on Economics.

The Broken Window Fallacy Reapplied

Tags: Calculation and Knowledge, Production Theory

01/28/2008 • Christopher Westley

It is not a good thing to destroy wealth.

Pillars reviewed

01/28/2008 • Jeffrey A. Tucker

Ron Paul’s Pillars of Prosperity is reviewed

Krugman Analyzed

Tags: Political Theory

01/28/2008 • Jeffrey A. Tucker

Daniel Klein writes to tell us of his new article:

Grant the Great

01/28/2008 • Max Raskin

James Grant, Jeff Tucker’s favorite New York Timer,

The great fiscal stimulus package ... of 1929

01/28/2008 • Stephen Carson

Is the myth of the “do nothing” Herbert Hoover dying?