Pew recently reported on how the homicide rate in the US has been cut in half over the past twenty years, even as gun ownership has greatly expanded in the US. The US public, meanwhile, thinks the murder rate is increasing.
Luckily for us all, Mises survived the war and went on to live a life that fundamentally altered the world. He overcame the Nazis, academic blacklists, and the personal hardships that tends to haunt any man who refuses to sacrifice his principles.
It's the age-old question: is success the result of natural talent or simply hard work? This problem is especially important for entrepreneurs.
In the latest episode of Mises Weekends, Jeff Deist and Yuri Maltsev discuss Socialism, Fascism, and Trumpism.
ZIRP has created massive asset bubbles throughout the world economy, but also has a diabolical impact on ordinary people who are largely disconnected to the bubbles.
The Mises Institute has been named the 9th Most Influential US Think Tank by TheBestSchools.org, a leading online resource for campus and online education.
An opinion piece in today's WSJ on the collapsing Brazilian economy extensively quotes a spokesman for Mises Institute Brazil, as well as cites articles from the institute's website.
In a capitalist world, socialists would be free to form their own socialist communities. They're largely free to do so now, although few do. This may be due to the fact that even the utopian version of socialism seems unpleasant.
The world waits to see if next week is finally the week that the Fed announces its rate hike. Can the economy survive whatever small bump the Fed deals out? Perhaps, but that won’t change the inherent instability of our current monetary regime.
Slicing and dicing statistics is no way to justify outlawing jobs for the least experience and most vulnerable workers. But outlawing jobs is what minimum wage hikes are all about.
