An End to the Bizarre CDC Rent Moratorium
Many landlords just received a crash course about how irrelevant their property rights are in Washington. Original Article: "An End to the Bizarre CDC Rent Moratorium" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon. Narrated by Michael Stack.
There’s Nothing Profreedom about “Nudging” People with Government Policy
The July/August 2021 Cato Policy Report hosted a friendly debate between Cass Sunstein and Mario Rizzo. Sunstein is a Harvard Law professor, a onetime member of the Obama administration, and coauthor of Nudge and other books advocating public policy applications of behavioral economics. Rizzo
Afghanistan: A Tragically Stupid War Comes to a Tragic End
Sunday’s news reports that the Biden Administration mistakenly killed nine members of one Afghan family, including six children, in “retaliation” for last week’s suicide attack which killed 13 US servicemembers, is a sad and sick epitaph on the 20 year
Macroeconomic Data Is a Tool for Government Intervention
In a free, unhampered market, businesspersons in the pursuance of their goals will not require macroeconomic indicators. Entrepreneurs require an entirely different kind of data than what government data provides. Original Article: "Macroeconomic Data Is a Tool for Government Intervention" This Audio
Preserving Capital through Bankruptcy
The New York Times recently published a piece entitled “When Kmart Moved Out, Churches and Flea Markets Moved In.” The article, penned by Kevin Williams, provides an instructive subtitle: “The retailer’s former stores are being used by tenants that might
British Columbia’s Supreme Court Gets an F in Healthcare Economics
Canadian hospitals operate under fixed budgets dictated by the government. When this tax revenue is depleted before the end of the year, as often happens, new patients are put on a waiting list. This problem isn't getting any better. Original Article:
Central Banks Can’t Taper in this Slowdown
Recent macroeconomic data from the United States should worry us. Amid the reopening and the biggest fiscal and monetary stimulus in recent history, and with all the possible tailwinds from policy decisions, consumer confidence has plummeted to the lowest level since 2016. Retail
China’s Military Strength Has Been Greatly Exaggerated
At this point, most everyone is now familiar with a certain narrative about China. Namely, the narrative about how China will soon be the most economically powerful country in the world, and how its military power will soon eclipse that
Review: Chaining Down Leviathan: The American Dream of Self-Government, 1776–1865
How is it that America became a “strong but limited” government, and the world’s richest and most free country? That is the central question both considered and answered by Luigi Marco Bassani in his new work, Chaining Down Leviathan: The
Ulrich Möller: The Video Game Industry Points to the Future of Organization Design
Austrian economics has a lot to say about how to organize firms for maximum value generation. Austrian principles point to the delegation of entrepreneurial judgement to the front-line employees who interact directly with those who actually create value: users. The military