Another Recession Sign: Part-Time Work Is Growing Faster than Full-Time Work
The Bureau of Labor Statistic (BLS) released new jobs data on Friday. According to the report, seasonally adjusted total nonfarm jobs rose 517,000 jobs, which was well above expectations. The words used by the media to describe the report included
The State Uses Trauma as a Weapon against Innocent People
In its unending quest for power, the state has no problem traumatizing the innocent. Original Article: "The State Uses Trauma as a Weapon against Innocent People" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon.
The Price-Gouging State
Friends and family are talking, on Facebook, about the rapid rise in the price of eggs. Their posts also report that there are plenty of eggs in the dairy sections of local grocery stores. A few people, along with some
Yes, the US Government Has Defaulted Before
The regime is trying to whip up maximum hysteria or the chances that the US government could default on its debts if the debt ceiling is not raised. Anyone whose been paying attention for a while, however, knows there's a 99.99%
Erik Schön: The Art Of Strategy
What is strategy, and is it useful for business? Business schools want you think it is the critical factor in competitive success or failure. They teach structured markets, divided up by market share, with boundaries and external and internal forces
Wholesale Price Inflation Is Slowing as Economy Worsens
A recession looks more likely every day, and the latest sign of this is slowing price growth in producer prices. After all, price inflation usually slows as the economy weakens and consumers run out of easy money. Original Article: "Wholesale Price
The New Deal and Recovery, Part 23: The Great Rapprochement
What finally brought the Great Depression to an end? We've seen that, whatever it was, it took place not during the 30s but sometime between then and the end of World War II when a remarkable postwar revival occurred instead
Why Libertarians Should Support the Multipolar World
Current international tensions have intensified a debate that has existed for at least a decade between two radically different views of the world and international relations: the unipolar world and the multipolar world. When libertarians disagree on foreign policy, the
Have you ever known that person that has a ton of great ideas but never gets them done? That’s the renewable energy industry
From the WSJ (Investors Plow Into Renewables, but Projects Aren’t Getting Built): Even as developers plan an unprecedented number of grid-scale wind and solar installations, project construction is plummeting across the U.S. Despite billions of dollars in federal tax credits up for
The “True” Money Supply: A Measure of the Supply of the Medium of Exchange in the U.S. Economy
The "True" Money Supply (TMS), developed by Professor Murray Rothbard and myself,1 is an admitted imperfect attempt to provide a statistical measure of money that is consistent with the theoretical definition of money as the general medium of exchange in