1929: Then and Now
mises.org — Early 1955 finds the American public swamped by forecasts of prosperity and boom. Economic advisers to governments, corporations, universities, labor unions and other groups seem to have resolved in unison to assure the people that a depression like that of the 1930s has been banned forever from the American scene. (Submitted by chris1234) More...
Store em If You Got em
mises.org — Cigarettes are so valuable that they are being stolen by the truckload to be sold in high-tax states -- like New Jersey, New York, and Washington. But individual counties also ladle taxes on each pack leading to smuggling within a single state with varying county tax rates, reports the Wall Street Journal. "It's a big business and it's getting hor (Submitted by populist) More...
A Four-Step Healthcare Solution - Hans-Hermann Hoppe
mises.org — It's true that the US health-care system is a mess, but this demonstrates not market but government failure. To cure the problem requires not different or more government regulations and bureaucracies, as self-serving politicians want us to believe, but the elimination of all existing government controls. It's as simple as this... (Submitted by brilovett) More...
Why I Pay with Two-Dollar Bills
mises.org — The paper you use can make a statement about what you believe. (Submitted by jatucker) More...
Krugman's Intellectual Waterloo
mises.org — And what about Krugman's strawman protests that he didn't cause the housing bubble, much less the Enron scandal or Kennedy's assassination? The man is willfully missing the point. What is damning about these quotes is not that he necessarily caused anything. What is devastating about them is that they expose the intellectual bankruptcy of his econ (Submitted by populist) More...
Austrian Recipe vs. Keynesian Fantasy
mises.org — The current crisis has revealed the Keynesian roots of mainstream economics. The only debate has been the type and size of bailouts and stimulus packages. All this suggests to me that this crisis is a "market test" for mainstream economics. Never before have so many academic economists held such primary roles in the economic policy of the federal (Submitted by inactive) More...
Mises Institute: Obama Sounds Like an Echo
mises.org — Obama's foreign-policy moves during his first hundred days have already caused some to lose their hope for peace in this dawning Age of Obama. But not me. My entire American experience has been defined by war or the threat of it. Peace to me would feel positively un-American. So I never had any hope to begin with. (Submitted by RonPauls) More...
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