Sometimes terrible things happen without any human malfeasance, and the novel Wuhan coronavirus may in fact be one of those things. It is entirely plausible the virus emerged from “ wet markets “ in the Hubei Province of China rather than as a fumbled (or worse, intentionally released) bioweapon cooked up by the Xi Jinping government. We may
The remarkable life of Ron Paul began in Pittsburgh 84 years ago today, in 1935—seven months after Elvis Aaron Presley came into the world. We wish him a very happy birthday, and many more years of health and productivity. It’s a rare person who peaks later in life, but Dr. Paul manages to do just that. Anyone who meets him notices his energy,
The dull, tired, whiny Old Gray Lady has another opinion piece about America’s slavish devotion to free market orthodoxy, but this time with a slight twist: it’s economists themselves to blame for the anti-government revolution. Yet while the article’s title held promise —” Blame Economists for the Mess We’re In ,” it turns out the author had
Was Mises for open borders, as the term currently is used? The short answer is “No,” as Professor Ben Powell from Texas Tech University explains in a new academic paper titled “ Solving the Misesean Migration Conundrum .” But Powell goes further than merely explaining Mises’s view— he also proposes a solution to the problem of immigrants
[The following is excerpted from a Foreword by Jeff Deist to our upcoming hardcover version of Henry Hazlitt’s classic Economics in One Lesson. Hazlitt was indeed a self-taught economist, but first and foremost he was a journalist . As a result, everything Hazlitt wrote exhibits great clarity and economy of words-- making him the perfect choice
Jeff Deist joins Rick Sanchez to weigh in on the European Central Bank’s introduction of negative interest rates and why it signals a global recession.
Do central bankers really think negative interest rates are rational? “Calculation Error,” which Bloomberg terminals sometimes display , is an apt metaphor for the current state of central bank policy. Both Europe and Asia are now awash in $13 trillion worth of negative-yielding sovereign and corporate bonds, and Alan Greenspan suggests negative
The best people in the world support the Mises Institute. 5,112 people to be exact. Will you join them? Who are they? People just like you. Average people who happen to care deeply about human liberty and human flourishing. People who care about real economics. People who oppose state power, central banks, and war. People who care about truth and
Self-help is largely a disreputable genre, in main because most answers to life are found internally, through trial and error. Digital charlatans, many of whom lack any real success in life beyond their dubious roles as “life coaches,” litter our social media feeds. The fundamental question goes unasked and unanswered: “Why should anyone listen
The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics by Michael Malice All Points Books/St. Martin’s Press 2019 307 pages Conservatism, Michael Malice famously remarks, is progressivism driving the speed limit. Malice’s latest book, aptly titled The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics, documents a movement of sorts to
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