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
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
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
European Shadow Unemployment Is a Real Problem
There is an undeniable negative trend in European employment and wages that is a direct consequence of constantly increasing intervention in the economy. Original Article: "European Shadow Unemployment Is a Real Problem" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon.
Why Mises’s Theory of Economic Calculation Still Is Relevant Today
Until the publication in 1920 of Ludwig von Mises’s work on the problem of economic calculation in socialism, there was no scientifically useful analysis of the economics of the socialist economy. With that work , and its development in the comprehensive treatise
Record Low Unemployment Indicates Trouble Ahead
Mark Thornton discusses the history of record low unemployment rates and the business cycle. See "Unemployment Rate" (UNRATE) from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis: Mises.org/MI_04_Chart Be sure to follow Minor Issues at Mises.org/MinorIssues.