Mises Wire

Vineer Bhansali at PIMCO argues that negative-yielding bonds act more like insurance policies than financial assets:

Indeed, negative-yielding bond markets tend to behave more like insurance policies than as investment assets. This is because, with a negative zero-coupon bond, a fixed income investor, like an insurance policy buyer, pays up front for protection-- in this case a premium-- for expected principal return in the form of a return of less principal at the negative rate.

It is hardly a relief for British households that £100 worth of consumer goods will now cost them around £99.90, when other prices in the UK economy are experiencing a rapid inflation. 

On calls for protecting Fed "independence" in the name of controlling inflation: "This is the Johnny-one-note of the Fed’s defense of its unbridled power."

Uber, Lyft, and similar rideshare companies represent a direct threat to state-controlled taxi cartels and their (increasingly unsellable) medallions.

Judge Napolitano points out that if government is spying on everyone, it's not spending it's time on spying on those who are most likely to actually use violence against others. 

Contemporary supporters of an expanded role for government are increasingly moving away from calling themselves liberals toward referring to themse

Medicine has gone the way of economics in preferring aggregates to specifics, although such methods do little to explain the needs of individual patients. On the other hand, the turn toward large-scale aggregation does help the government to centrally plan health care policy.

Mario Rizzo suggests that if you want to be remembered as an economist, you should be an Austrian.

The New York Times reports on how the Japanese internment camps are passing out of living memory, and how imprisonment impacted the economic and physical lives of the prisoners. 

Are bees really dying off, and can the government solve the problem?