Writes Justin Raimondo in Antiwar.com : “As an extra, added bonus: we now have the Mises blog – where you can read the latest about the issues that really matter, written by scholars and students associated with the Ludwig von Mises Institute, from a pure free-market perspective.”
From Justin Raimondo: An Iraqi street vendor says: “’The prices are better because there’s no government now,’ he said, expressing no regrets.” Cited in the Los Angeles Times
Reports the Los Angeles Times : “Baghdad businessmen join the reconstruction gold rush and find new ways to make a quick dinar. But competition can be cutthroat.”
“Freddie Mac, the big buyer of mortgage loans, fired its president yesterday, contending that he failed to cooperate with an internal investigation into its accounting practices,” says Alex Berenson in the New York Times .
Remarkable story on a central bank that cannot afford the paper to print more currency. In short, the story underscores the commercial foundations of civilization itself. Harare (AP) - Zimbabwe lurched closer to economic collapse Friday as banks ran out of money, fuel and power shortages worsened, factories slowed production and pay phones were
Business at New York bars and restaurants has plummeted by as much as 50 percent in the wake of the smoking ban — and the drop has already sparked layoffs and left some establishments on the brink of shutting their doors, a Post survey has found .
“Ted Turner is a worried man. His media career is gone with the wind. His faith in the United Nations looks naive. He thinks humanity’s on the verge of extinction, and he’s down to his last billion,” says FORTUNE .
The suicide bombing in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia , reminds me of a drama that has long taken place on American soil. It has to do with crimes committed against the bourgeoisie in areas Americans euphemistically refer to as “bad neighborhoods.” In the Tom Wolfe novel Bonfire of the Vanities , an investment banker inadvertently takes a wrong turn and
The newest member of the Hillsdale College economics faculty is Robert Murphy, Kuzweg Fellow this summer at the Mises Institute.
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