Fall Fundraising Campaign Starts Monday: September 26 – October 1
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This week the Federal Reserve once again failed to raise interest rates, further demonstrating that they have no plan to get out of the box they’ve trapped themselves in. In another case of déjà vu, Freddie Mae and Frannie Mac announced a new housing program that will lower lending standards. Meanwhile, in response to last weekend’s issues involving southern oil pipelines, a number of state governments have waged war on pricing by implementing laws against “price gouging.”
To see basic economics ignored time and time again by policymakers at all levels of government further illustrates the point Ludwig von Mises made about how vitally important it is to understand the subject. As Jeff Deist said at least week’s Supporters Summit in Asheville:
Mises believed everyone had a duty to learn. … And that’s at the heart of what we do at the Mises Institute: teaching sound economics to people from all walks of life.
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On the heels of the Fed’s annual meeting in Jackson Hole, “extraordinary” monetary policy may be the new normal. Janet Yellen refuses to raise rates for now, and Former Chair Ben Bernanke openly questions whether the Fed’s Treasury-laden balance sheet — swollen after successive rounds of QE — will ever be unwound. Real growth is flat, real incomes are stagnant, inflation is higher than the government admits, and millions of Americans still haven’t recovered from the Crash of ’08. Is economics broken?
Dr. Joe Salerno, professor of economics and Academic VP of the Mises Institute, joins us to makes sense of it all on the next episode of Mises Weekends.
And in case you missed any of them, here are the articles featured this week on the Mises Wire:
- Are Libertarians Too Anti-Pollution? by Ryan McMaken
- Deja vu: Fannie and Freddie Lower Lending Standards by Tho Bishop
- Indoctrination: 35 Years of the US Department of Education by Carol A. Vance & Loyd S. Pettegrew
- Laws Against “Price Gouging” Aren’t Helpful by Antón Chamberlin
- Which is Worse: A Busted Pipeline or a Politician with a Case of the Do-Somethings? by Jonathan Newman
- FOMC, Not Surprisingly, Holds on Interest Rates Again by Paul-Martin Foss
- Italy’s Earthquake: Will It Revive Their Economy? by Bernardo Ferrero
- Is it Junk or Is it Art? by Ryan McMaken
- No, Unions Don’t Increase Everyone’s Wages by Gary Galles
- No, the Fed Doesn’t Have a Plan. Yes, the Fed Really is Monetizing Government Debt by Jeff Deist
- Broken Politics, Broken Economics by Jeff Deist
- The Post-Brexit Boom is Baffling Elites by George Pickering
- Why the EU Is Doomed by Alasdair Macleod
