August’s Price Inflation Soared, and That Means Earnings Fell Yet Again
The Federal government's Bureau of Labor Statistics released new price inflation data today, and the news wasn't good. According to the BLS, CPI inflation rose 8.3 percent, year over year, during August, before seasonal adjustment. That's the seventeenth month in
How the Fed Helped Create Another Calamity: The Ongoing Emerging Market Debt Crisis
When in March the Federal Reserve finally moved to belatedly embark on a series of rate hikes to slow the hottest inflation in the United States since the 1980s, it signaled impending trouble for many emerging market economies. Often unable to
Per Bylund: The Austrian School Approach to Business versus the Business School Approach
Business is a form of applied economics. Its purpose is to make people’s lives better. Profit is the signal from society that business is doing a good job in the customer’s estimation. This is a completely human system, a form
The Nilar: A Pan-African Gold Currency
African countries emerged as “independent” nation-states in a context of a debt-based fiat money system, the fiat dollar standard. Independent is in quotation marks because Africa’s countries’ independence is nominal. That is said with due respect and gratitude to all
Everything You Love You Owe to Capitalism
Original Article: "Everything You Love You Owe to Capitalism" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon.
Epistemological Relativism in the Sciences of Human Action
[This paper was originally presented at the Volker Fund's Symposium on Relativism, 1960.] La Condition Humaine" by René Magritte (1898–1967) I. Introduction Up to the 18th century, historians paid little or no attention to the epistemological problems of their craft. In dealing
Looking at the Economic Myth of the “Soft Landing”
According to commentators, countering inflation requires monetary authorities to actively restrain the economy, with “experts” believing that higher interest rates need not cause an economic slump. Instead, they believe that the Fed cab orchestrate a “soft landing.” It is questionable,
When Honesty Is Disincentivized, Don’t Be Surprised That Trickery Abounds
Economists often deplore the corruption in developing countries, but when institutions are corrupt, don't expect people to have the incentive to be honest. Original Article: "When Honesty Is Disincentivized, Don't Be Surprised That Trickery Abounds" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored
The Enclosure Movement and the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions
Few technological changes have been criticized as much as the enclosure movement, strongly associated with the British Isles, but actually rooted in the Netherlands. Consider this definition of the movement offered by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF): The Enclosure Movement
Biden Declares “MAGA Republicans” Enemies of the State
The optics of the event were likely the idea of a proud Biden staffer leaning into the “Dark Brandon” aesthetic that has become popular among regime loyalists on Twitter. To Americans outside of this Very Online echo chamber, the imagery