Mises Wire

Maybe the Monkey Kingdom needs a Federal Reserve

Tags: Value and Exchange

01/31/2008 • Jeffrey A. Tucker

From Wired:

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%.

Genetic Discrimination Saves Lives

01/30/2008 • David Leo Veksler

Thanks to recent technological innovations, companies like 23andMe are now able to offer comprehensive genetic profiles that

NYC Secession for Self-Determination and Self-Rule?

01/30/2008 • Justin M. Ptak

Emboldened by Mayor Bloomberg’s testimony in Albany this week that the city’s taxpayers pay the state $11 billion a year more than they ge

Last Knight Live Blog 25 - Kraus

01/30/2008 • Lorenz Kraus

Chapter 18, Émigré in New York, opens the fourth and last part of the book, Mises in America.

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.