Over at Mises Canada I explore the following unfortunate facts concerning Canadian debt: Household debt to GDP in Canada is around 95%, higher than at any time in recent history. In fact, this statistic is up nearly 20% since the global credit freeze of 2008. Government debt is not doing much better. It too is higher than it has been for 14 years,
After last week´s decision by HSBC to halt its policy of not honoring large withdrawal requests by depositors comes news of the Russian bank “My Bank” implementing its own run-protection measure. “My Bank”, one of Russia´s top 200 lenders by assets, has introduced “a complete ban on cash withdrawals until next week.” In my discussion of HSBC´s
The first issue of the Journal of Prices & Markets is now available as a paperback. Published by the Ludwig von Mises Institute of Canada , JPM is a journal that seeks to improve the understanding of the role of markets in the economy. The inaugural issue includes articles and reviews by Walter Block, Pete Boettke, Ben O’Neill, George Bragues,
Featured in this issue of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics (Vol. 16, No. 4): The Marginal Efficiency of Capital by Edward W. Fuller How Entrepreneurship Theory Created Economics by Christopher Brown and Mark Thornton Driving the Market Process: “Alertness” Versus Innovation and “Creative Destruction” by Samuel Bostaph Legal
Over at Mises Canada today , I write about the real wolves lurking in the economy. By now many of you have probably seen the “Wolf of Wall Street”, the story of a fraudster who managed to swindle millions from his clients. Leonardo DiCaprio has been lambasted for romanticizing the life of the real-life “wolf” he recently won best actor for at the
New from Associated Scholar Antony Mueller: Beyond Keynes and the Classics. Outline of the Goods Side/Money Side Model of the Business Cycle and Macroeconomic Configurations Antony P Mueller UFS - Federal University of Sergipe - Universidade Federal de Sergipe January 20, 2014 Abstract: This paper presents the goods side/money side (GS/MS) model
[The Chris Christie bridge scandal has highlighted some of the pitfalls of political control of the highway system. In this selection from Chapter 21 of The Privatization of Roads and Highways , Walter Block discusses some issues related to the privatization of roads. Block address the issue of traffic congestion throughout the book. ] Question:
Already in mailboxes is the January edition of The Free Market , the Mises Institute’s monthly. In this issue, Ryan McMaken writes on the AMC show Hell on Wheels and the transcontinental railroads: Hell on Wheels wastes no time in making it quite clear that this is not the story of heroic entrepreneurs or industrialist visionaries. It is the story
Over at Mises Canada , I’ve started the coverage of the Sochi Olympics . Countless sporting records will be broken in Sochi over the next two weeks. Surprisingly perhaps, the biggest record was already broken before the games ever begin. With some estimates running as high as $65 billion, the Sochi Olympics are ten times more expensive than the
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