The BOJ’s Unchartered Territory
You’d think that after 10-plus years of economic recession, despite having forced interest rates down to near-zero levels in their
Mises Wire
Herbener in WSJ
Jeffrey Herbener has the top letter to the editor in the Wall Street Journal today ($).
Central Banks, No Jurisdiction
Gold Bugs Get their Answer (Insight): Gold bugs have for years contended that the price of
Economists Quotations
Charles McCann is finishing up editing a Dictionary of Quotations by Economists (or some similar title) for English publisher E
That Criminal Waksal
I just read this morning that Samuel Waksal, former ImClone’s former CEO, has been sentenced to 87 months to prison for his “crime”
Rand and Martha
An emailer sent me these lines from Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, a conversation between a government official and a businessman:
Japan no longer a ‘saving power’
The Daily Yomiuri reports that the Japanese savings rate is converging towar
Backgrounder on Freddie
For an overview of the GSEs and the mortgage boom: see Chri
