Empty Malls and Shopping Centers: How Government Fuels Malinvestments
The empty shopping mall: a story of how government actions created a huge malinvestment in western Pennsylvania. Original Article: "Empty Malls and Shopping Centers: How Government Fuels Malinvestments" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon.
It’s Too Early to Tell If We’re in a Period of Real Disinflation
Are asset inflation and its bellwether, the euro, really heading into a new spring following a winter marked by the now-fading scare of Fed disinflation (alternatively described as “restrictive monetary policy”)? A computer powered by artificial intelligence might well conclude
Imperialist Nonsense: The US Takeover of the Philippines
Robert Kagan is a well-known neoconservative historian who believes that America ought to exercise a “benevolent hegemony” over the rest of the world. In his just-published book, The Ghost at the Feast: America and the Collapse of World Order, 1900–1941
Episodic Release in Ohio: Train Derailment Forces Controlled Burn of Toxic Chemicals
From NPR on February 8th (Residents can return home after crews burned chemicals in derailed tanker cars): "About 50 cars, including 10 carrying hazardous materials, derailed in a fiery crash Friday night on the edge of East Palestine. Federal investigators say
How Should a Nation Determine Its Heroes?
How do societies determine who their heroes are? We know that often those seen as heroes actually made a country worse off. Original Article: "How Should a Nation Determine Its Heroes?" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon.
An Age of Liberty in the Polish Commonwealth
When proposing alternatives to the state, libertarians should look back at the basics of political philosophy and find historical examples that illustrate the achievement of the goals of individual freedoms and self-government. The most common mistake is to think of the
Concentrate Where the Murders Are Concentrated
Progressives like to claim that "America" has a "gun violence problem." However, the "gun violence problem" happens to exist in places where progressives dominate the government. Original Article: "Concentrate Where the Murders Are Concentrated" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher
If you need an example of a negative externality for your class today then here is a good one from NOAA
From NOAA Research News (One facility makes a big contribution to Salt Lake’s winter brown cloud): The 2.4 million people who live along Utah’s Wasatch Front experience some of the most severe winter particulate matter air pollution in the nation. Now,
Why the 1787 Constitution Did Not Bring Republican Government to America
One of the many myths that schoolchildren are taught in the name of American exceptionalism is the idea that the Americans finally embraced a republican form of government at the Constitutional Convention in 1787. This, we are told, was revolutionary. The
The (horrible) gift of government shutdowns?
The US government did not shut down in FY 2023. That is immensely unremarkable