The Fable of the Cats
The comparison has by now been made so often that it may qualify as a platitude. I mean that between stablecoin issuers and "wildcat" banks, the fly-by-night scams that supposedly flooded the antebellum United States with notes nominally worth some
Biden’s Economic Team Predicts Long-Term Slow Growth
What is noteworthy about the depressing title to this article is its source. In a case of uncommon candor, President Biden’s economic team has announced that once the artificially high, stimulus-juiced GDP (gross domestic product) measurements of the next two years subside,
The Tacit Third Wave
The turn of this decade was the worst of times, as COVID-19 was declared as a global pandemic by the World Health Organization. It forced countries into lockdowns, pushed healthcare systems beyond their limits, and tested our ability to withstand
The Not So Wild, Wild West
The growth of government during this century has attracted the attention of many scholars interested in explaining that growth and in proposing ways to limit it. As a result of this attention, the public-choice literature has experienced an upsurge in
Interview with Tho Bishop: Economic Populism and the Role of the Mises Institute
The following is the first part from an interview between William Yarwood (WY), digital media officer for The Mallard, and Tho Bishop (TB), assistant editor at the Mises Institute. The article has been edited for clarity, originally published at MallardUK.com. WY:
There’s a New “Study” Showing 26% of Americans Are Right-Wing Authoritarians. There’s Nothing Scientific about It.
“1/4 of Americans Qualify as Highly ‘Right-Wing Authoritarian’ New Poll Finds,” runs a recent headline from Business Insider. This shocking headline is only one of many similar articles reporting on a recent study. If the headline’s implications are true, this is
Nepal’s Budget for the fiscal year 2021-22: The Future of Chure
Nepal- a small country spread over approximately 1, 47, 000 km2 is sandwiched between India and China, two countries having the largest population count in the world. In spite of this, Nepal has managed to maintain its cultural identity and
Milkha Singh – A Tribute
The Indian sporting Legend ‘Milkha Singh’ or ‘The Flying Sikh’ as he was commonly known, was born on 20th November 1929 at Govindpura, Punjab province, British India (present day Punjab, Pakistan). He was born to Sikh parents of Rathore Rajput
With Home Prices Soaring, Shoppers Fear Buying at the Top of a Bubble
Google reported in April that the search question “When is the housing market going to crash?” had spiked 2,450 percent in the past month, according to Diana Olick of CNBC. “Why is the market so hot?” searches had doubled in just
The Global Minimum Corporate Tax Exposes the G-7’s Hypocrisy
Austrian school economists have long demonstrated that monopolies only tend to form as a result of government intervention, and “natural monopolies” have virtually never actually existed. Nonetheless, we are continually told by political and academic “experts” that unregulated economies inevitably