While I was out for lunch, I decided to get a haircut and renew the tag for my vehicle. So I got all my paperwork together and pulled around the rear-facing Lee County Satellite Department of Haircutting and Styling Annex, Building 32.b.5 and carefully zigzagged through the tightly packed and confusingly arranged parking lot. I glanced through all
The number of honey-producing bee colonies is higher than it has been in 20 years, according to the newest USDA data. After consistent decline from the late 1980s to the early 2000s, there has been a recent rise in the number of colonies due to federal regulations promoting bee health —scratch that—beekeepers responding to changing prices of
Dan Price, the CEO of Gravity Payments, took a $930,000 pay cut to raise the minimum salary of his employees to $70,000. The plan was announced in April 2015, and set to be completed over the course of three years. Both his employees (especially the ones with a larger pay increase) and proponents of income equality celebrated the move. It garnered
Anti-market and pro-socialist rhetoric is surging in headlines (see also here , here , and here ) and popping up more and more on social media feeds . Much of the time, these opponents of markets can’t tell the difference between state-sponsored organizations like the International Monetary Fund and actual markets. But, that doesn’t matter because
It seems today’s theme is “we’re winning!” In Ludwig von Mises is Winning , Tho Bishop includes a Google Trends graph comparing the Mises Institute to other organizations. The Mises Institute has been at or near the top for a few years now, according to the Google Trends data, which bases its measure on search interest from people looking up
The last financial crisis and recession drove many to the writings of Austrian economists and the Mises Institute. In fact, I’m in that cohort. And every time the Fed makes headlines, I see this crowd getting larger . Sub-Groups Within the Anti-Fed Party Even with this December 2015 episode, with the media abuzz over a 0.25 rate increase, many are
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released November employment data today . The media is calling it a “solid U.S. employment report”, with most of the job categories increasing. The main statistic, total nonfarm employment, increased 211,000. This is 111,000 more than what Janet Yellen reportedly wanted to see to justify a momentous 0.25 Fed funds
The federal government began lending to students in 1993, pursuant to a reauthorized Higher Education Act, signed by Bush Sr. From 1993 to 2006, the federal government’s student loan portfolio swelled, from $353 million to $109 billion , which amounted to 23% of total student loan debt. The percent of student loans owned by the government hovered
What is the least you would be willing to be paid to verify business addresses or phone numbers for a database? If you had a large online inventory and wanted simple word tags to describe each one of your products for search engine optimization, how much would you be willing to pay somebody to trudge through your product images and generate tags?
In Janet Yellen’s Q&A with the House Financial Services Committee, Rep. Tom Emmer asked about the possibility and consequences of negative interest rates. Emmer (R-MN): “Will the Federal Open Market Committee ever rule out going to negative interest rates?” Yellen: “’Rule out’ is something we tend not to do. [...] If circumstances were to
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The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.
Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.