We are less than a month away from the election and it can’t be over soon enough. In the latest strange turn, several DC libertarians came out against prosecuting unlawful politicians and in support of a government-managed “common market,” rather than genuine free trade that can be imposed unilaterally. In DC, regulators continue to expand their power, while special interests are trying to create a monopoly in prescription lenses. Meanwhile central bankers continue their assault on cash, while suppressing saving worldwide and continue to botch their own forecasts.
On the bright side, at least Peter Klein had kind things to say about this year’s economics Nobel Prize winners.
If election season has you down, join Lew Rockwell, Roger Stone, Bob Murphy, and Jeff Deist in Dallas-Ft. Worth on November 5, to discuss The End of Politics.
Mises Weekends is on hiatus as we retool our format and our studio. After next week, Mises Today will feature Jeff and a revolving slate of guests discussing current events from an Austro-libertarian perspective. These quick-take shows will air once or twice every week, depending on what’s happening in the world. Mises Weekends will continue to air on Fridays, but will focus more exclusively on Austrian economics and related academic subjects. As always, the goal is to reach more people through more channels — and in an age of social media, audio and video formats increasingly dominate. So stay tuned for great new content from the Mises Institute!
In lieu of a new episode of Mises Weekends, on Saturday the BBC radio will be broadcasting an episode of their show In The Balance which features Jeff, Dame DeAnne Julius, a founding member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England, and Usha Thorat, a former Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India in Mumbai.
And in case you missed any of them, here are the articles featured this week on the Mises Wire:
- The Case for Unilateral Free Trade by Louis Rouanet
- Repealing the 17th Amendment Won’t Fix the Senate by Ryan McMaken
- How We Lost Economics by Jeff Deist by Jeff Deist
- Thanks to Central Banks, Saving Rates Are Declining Worldwide by Ryan McMaken
- Libertarians Shouldn’t Dream of Hillary’s Common Market by Tho Bishop
- Learning from the British Election of 1722 by Gary Galles
- Is Voting Immoral by Murray N. Rothbard
- Our Prospects are Bright by Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.
- Latest Regs Show “Consumer Protection” Can Justify Pretty Much Anything by Brittany Hunter
- Will Eliminating Cash Save the Economy? by Frank Shostak
- How Columbus Revolutionized the Global Economy by Ryan McMaken
- The 2016 Nobel Prize: Incentives, Property Rights, and Ownership by Peter G. Klein
- Health-Care Cronies Seek Monopoly Powers over Contact Lenses by Beth Johnson
- Why Hillary Clinton Is Not Like Edward Snowden by Tho Bishop
- The Fed Who Cried “Growth” by Jonathan Newman
- Japanese Consumers Not Afraid of Deflation by Mark Thornton
