Mises Wire

• People variously comment on the wonderful charts that appear on Mises.org.

Tallying up the government payroll used to be a somewhat reliable way to measure the size of government.

• Does poverty create terrorists?

Incredibly, Donald Rumsfeld compares the current situation in Iraq,

Here is the report mentioned in the blog by Robert Blumen.

The Economist has run a major section examining the housing bubbles that are popping up around the world.

Today’s Wall Street Journal has a front-page story focusing on the question, “

I wish to elaborate on an article that was blogged by Jeff Tucker (

• Deflation hysteria spreads to Eurozone (BBC)