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On the Tom Woods Show:

Jeff Peshut has posted a nice article indicating the full dimensions of the stagnating recovery in labor markets.  Peshut focuses on the absolute level of employment and the rate of growth of employment rather than looking solely at the far rosier unemployment rate.  He shows that the employment growth rate was far lower during the Greenspan

Interviewed by Paul Molloy, Mark Thornton talks about the economics of prohibition.

Former New Orleans, La. Mayor Ray Nagin was convicted of 20 counts of corruption, while found not guilty on one count. Nagin was the mayor of the Crescent City from 2002 to 2010, shepherding the city through the devastation of Hurricane Katrina and the rebuilding that began immediately after. But during the rebuilding phase, Nagin required

The Daily Bell features a wide-ranging and engaging interview with Richard Ebeling , Professor of Economics at Northwood University.  Ebeling is one of the leading scholars in the history of Austrian economics, especially the works and thought of Ludwig von Mises. and has written voluminously in the area.  Ebeling is also a key figure in the

Jane Bussman is a British comedienne who moved to Los Angeles in the late 1990s. She wrote for a number of TV shows, including South Park, for a while. She then drifted into celebrity journalism interviewing the likes of Anna Nicole Smith, Britney Spears, and Aston Kutcher. She eventually chucked it all and sought to cleanse her soul by traveling

Small, New University Does Something Radical -- Only Hires Professors Who Want To Teach And Only Admits Students Who Want To Learn . HT to Walter Grinder

Some restaurants in Florida and California have tacked on a surcharge to their diners’ food and beverage bills to help defray the looming costs of the Affordable Care Act.  The Gator’s Dockside chain of restaurants  in Florida has  added  a 1 percent surcharge while Republique, a trendy restaurant in Los Angeles, is increasing patrons’ tabs by 3

Frank Shostak writes in today’s Mises Daily:   Most economic commentators blame the weakening in economic data on bad weather conditions that have gripped much of the US. On this way of thinking the economy remains strong and short setbacks are on account of consumers and businesses putting off purchases. However, this should reverse, so it is

Apparently, it does not take much Artificial Intelligence to flummox academic scientists. In 2005, three MIT graduate students developed a simple computer program that generates gobbledygook texts . They then added their names to one of them and submitted it as paper to an academic conference. It was quickly accepted. The heroic hoaxsters then