How Nigeria’s Central Bank Inflates the Money Supply
The Nigerian central bank uses all the same tools as other central banks. And it uses them a lot. Original Article: "How Nigeria's Central Bank Inflates the Money Supply" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon. Narrated by Michael
The Oklahoma National Guard Refused the Vax Mandate. The Pentagon Is Not Pleased.
In a surprising development, Republican Governor Kevin Stitt has refused to implement the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate. This has placed the Governor directly at odds with Pentagon brass and with the White House as it aggressively attempts to enforce its latest
Why Care about Inequality?
Why Does Inequality Matter?by T.M. ScanlonOxford University Press, 2018, 170 pp. T.M. Scanlon, who taught philosophy for many years at Princeton and Harvard, is one of the leading moral and political philosophers of the past fifty years or so. Though far
The Toxic Politicization of Society
Tho Bishop, guest-hosting A Neighbor's Choice, interviews Jonathan Newman, author of The Broken Window. Tho and Jonathan discuss the supposedly transitory aspect of inflation, the overshadowing of economics by central planning, Keynesian economics, and more. Purchase The Broken Window online at Mises.org/BWindow.
Homicide Rates in 2020 Rose to a 24-Year High. Is This a Crisis of State Legitimacy?
By mid 2020, it was already becoming clear that the United States was experiencing a spike in crime. Indeed, by midyear, numerous media outlets were already reporting remarkably large increases in homicide in a number of cities. It was clear
Is the Constitution Broken beyond Repair?
The Broken Constitution: Lincoln, Slavery, and the Refounding of AmericaNoah FeldmanFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021, 368 pp. Noah Feldman, who teaches at Harvard Law School, has in this excellent though flawed book given us an account of Abraham Lincoln which lends
Is Price Stability Really a Good Thing?
One of the mandates of the Federal Reserve System is to attain price stability. It is held that price stability is the key as far as economic stability is concerned. What is it all about? The idea of price stability originates
Industrial Policy—a.k.a. Central Planning—Won’t Make America Great
China's industrial policy has been marked by many failures and few successes. Rather, China's real growth has been fueled by the regime's limited turn to markets. Original Article: "Industrial Policy—a.k.a. Central Planning—Won't Make America Great" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored
Kyle Rittenhouse and the Evil of Generalized Justice
In a decent society, real justice is specific and not general. In criminal matters especially, justice should be temporal and rooted in the facts of the instant case. Greater societal concerns, along with the identity of defendant and victims (sex, race, religion, notoriety, social
Deconstruction: Using Literature to Promote Marxism
What Is Deconstruction? Unlike the more structured curriculums of high school mathematics or science, the course load and topic choice for upper-level English classes is left largely undefined. For Advanced Placement classes, the College Board only focuses on necessary skills, leaving