Looming Bank Failures Point to More Price Inflation as Real Wages Fall Again
Even if Powell is sincere in this stated desire to slay inflation with more rate hikes, recent bank failures will put the Fed under enormous pressure to end its rate hikes and to once again embrace easy money to save the
Did Colonialism Impoverish Africa and Asia? Perhaps Not
Revisiting the legacies of colonialism to indict Western imperialism has become a fashionable pastime for leading academics. Many argue that colonialism erected permanent roadblocks to thwart the progress of ex-colonies. Western colonialism is so vilified that any attempt to present
The Theory and Practice of Conspiracy
Collusion was a way of life with state-chartered enterprises. Little has changed, as firms with political connections still gain profits from their collusion with the state. Original Article: "The Theory and Practice of Conspiracy" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by
Some bad economics at the Department of Energy
From E&E News (DOE: Major LNG project ‘would not increase’ CO2) from June 2022: A proposed liquefied natural gas project in Alaska would not raise greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new federal environmental review that assumes LNG exports elsewhere will
The Outbreak of World War I: A Libertarian Realist Rebuttal
As you may have noticed, those dreaded “forces” seem to have rematerialized—in the headlines, in the journals, in the pages of bestsellers: those historical, material, political, or ideological forces that supposedly make conflict between some set of groups, classes, or
A Bank Crisis Was Predictable. Was the Fed Lying or Blind?
Welcome to Whose Economy Is It, Anyway?, where the rules are made up and the dollars don’t matter. Or at least that seems to be the view of the Yellen regime. Original Article: "A Bank Crisis Was Predictable. Was the Fed
Are Bank Failures a Sign of More Trouble Ahead?
The failure of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) on March 10 was the second largest bank failure in US history. Just two days following SVB’s collapse, Signature Bank joined the record books as the third largest bank failure in US history.
American Dissident: The Legacy of Murray Rothbard
Murray Newton Rothbard, perhaps the greatest enemy of the state in the second half of the twentieth century, would have recently celebrated his ninety-seventh birthday had he lived. Men are not salmon, those unique creatures that swim against the current. Most