Stephan Livera Interviews Bob Murphy on the Economics of Bitcoin
Stephan Livera hosts a popular podcast on Bitcoin and Austrian economics. He recently had Bob on to discuss, appropriately enough, the economics of Bitcoin from an Austrian perspective. Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest: Stephan Livera’s YouTube pageBob and Silas
It’s Time to End the Embargo against Cuba
Now that Cuban president Raul Castro has resigned the presidency of Cuba, will the U.S. government lift its six-decades-long economic embargo against Cuba? Don’t count it. Squeezing the life out of the Cuban people as a way to get regime change
Clinicians and Probabilistic Reasoning, with Dan Morgan
Our guest is Dan Morgan, MD, MS, a physician and epidemiologist in Baltimore, Maryland. He is Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Chief Hospital Epidemiologist at the Baltimore VAMC, and a fellow
Bart Jackson on How to Be CEO
Bart Jackson is a CEO, and has studied the job and the people in it via thousands of survey responses and hundreds of interviews and multiple collaborations all over the world over many years. He’s distilled his findings in two
SECOND WAVE OF COVID 19: ANOTHER THREAT TO INDIAN ECONOMY
The second wave has arrived. Every day, more evidence emerges that the second wave is no longer confined to Maharashtra. It’s no longer just a wave, but a possible tsunami, with the daily run rate of cases surpassing the first-wave
An Austrian Critique of Robert Mundell’s “Impossible Trinity”
Robert Mundell, winner of the Economics Nobel in 1999, recently passed away at the age of eighty-eight. As many of the obituaries have explained, Mundell is considered the intellectual father of the euro and was associated with the supply-side revolution
Patriotism
[Originally printed in Facts and Comments (1902)] Were anyone to call me dishonest or untruthful he would touch me to the quick. Were he to say that I am unpatriotic, he would leave me unmoved. “What, then, have you no love of country?”
Thanks to the Fed, the High-Risk, Small-Time Borrower Is Becoming a Thing of the Past
Banks and accounting trickery go together. Last year, as I remember back to my banking days, financial institutions followed the advice once proffered by one of our board members, “If we’re going to the dump, let’s take a full load.” When
George Floyd and Generalized Justice
Justice is specific, not general. It is individual, not cosmic. Original Article: "George Floyd and Generalized Justice" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon. Narrated by Michael Stack.
Why Empowering Organized Labor Will Definitely Not Help the Economy
Paul Krugman has a very prominent perch from the editorial page at the New York Times and he has used his influence, among other things, to shill for two things that are anathema to a strong economy: inflation and organized