The Opportunity of a Lifetime
A hedge fund in New York known to Mises is looking for two interns for this summer. “I thought Mises was a good place to look given that our world views are the same. Qualifications: smart, hungry to succeed, finance education,
Josiah Neeley Gives the Other Side on What Happened with the Texas Power Freeze
Josiah Neeley is the Texas Director and Resident Senior Fellow in Energy for the R Street Institute. He has a lively discussion, pushing back on some of Bob’s previously articulated points regarding the recent Texas freeze and blackouts. Mentioned in the
Rob Bradley Gives a Brief History of US Electricity Regulation, with Lessons for the Recent Texas Freeze
Rob Bradley is an expert in the history of US energy markets. He explains the role of Sam Insull (co-founder of General Electric) in showing what a free market in electricity would look like, and then criticizes Texas’ ERCOT as
The Border Crisis Is the Latest Example of Government “Efficiency”
By nearly any standard, the US government’s administration of border control is a disaster. If the goal is to limit border crossings, things are a mess. If the goal is to facilitate more legal immigration, things are a mess. If the
Central Planning by Business Is Not the Same as Central Planning by Government
Advocates of capitalism say: “CENTRAL PLANING DOESN’T WORK!” Also advocates of capitalism: “CORPORATIONS DO WORK!” Sensible socialist: “Uhhh … aren’t corporations all centrally planned?” This is a relatively new, and even imaginative critique of markets which has recently been circulating the meme-o-sphere. It looks
The fading American Dream : Rise in hate crime against Asian Americans
In San Francisco, an 84 year-old Asian man died of brain hemorrhageafter being violently shoved to the ground by a teenager. In Georgia, a man on a shooting spree ended up killing 8 women, 6 of them were Asian. In Washington D.C.,
Money Isn’t Neutral: Why Economic Stabilization Schemes Are Counterproductive
For most commentators economic stability refers to an absence of excessive fluctuations in key economic data such as real gross domestic product (GDP) and the consumer price index (CPI). An economy with constant output growth and low and stable price inflation
The Western Lands and Foreign Policy in the Early Republic
[Part II of Rothbard's newly edited and released Conceived in Liberty, vol. 5, The New Republic: 1784–1791.] The Old Northwest With the cession of the claims of Virginia and other states to the lands of the Old Northwest, and the passage of its Ordinance of