The Onion is overlinked, but this is too funny not to post: WASHINGTON--According to a report released Tuesday by the Brookings Institution, a Washington-based think tank, the recent influx of exceedingly affluent powder-wigged aristocrats into the nation’s gentrified urban areas is pushing out young white professionals, some of whom have lived in
From Wired : The researchers first trained chimpanzees in the basic rules of trade: you give to me, I give to you. They used apple slices, which chimps generally like, and grapes, which chimps really like -- think Winnie the Pooh and honey. The chimpanzees picked up the concept quickly, perhaps because they’re accustomed to trading grooming
A blog this huge and old has trouble finding a viable native search. Google helped us with a cool new widget on the sidebar to the right. Try it out and see what you think.
There is this term in the software world: upgrade. You think it might mean upgrade but it doesn’t necessarily. Sometimes it means two weeks of maddening frustration, searching forums, waiting, crashing, workarounds, headaches, screaming, cursing, and contemplated defenestrations . So it has been with the Mises blog, but after all of this, the
I can recall reading this article by Michael Lewis when it first appeared, but it holds up 6 years later. It is his detailed out of how a 15-year old made the big bucks on Wall Street through day trading -- until the SEC cracked down for reasons that are oddly unclear. It also reminds us of one good thing about working at the New York Times.
While the politicians run around the country telling us of their plans to make our lives better--what wizardry they command, merely to make speeches, pass laws, and print paper and thereby make us prosperous and secure!--free enterprise is busy actually accomplishing this, and with little or no fanfare. This is the thought that struck me when I
The NYT offers a solution to the drug problem in the U.S. but it is out of fantasy land: “The federal government needs to do more to slow the flow of money and guns that finance and arm the cartels in Mexico and Central America. There is little hope of ever defeating the traffickers abroad if the government isn’t doing enough to reduce demand at
What is the Mises Institute?
The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.
Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.
