Have you ever wondered why power plugs have the shape they do? The common American Type A design dates back to the original 1920’s two-pin plug design. Why are we still using 1920’s technology to power electric devices when virtually every other household technology has experienced rapid change and evolution? It turns out that everything about
The New York Times reports that FEMA wasted over $100 million of ice that was intended to help to hurricane victims . One frustrated truck driver had to drive 2,000 pounds of ice around for 4,100 miles, being redirected half a dozen times, and waiting up to a week (with the engine running) for FEMA to make up their mind. 59% of the purchased ice
Google under scrutiny, Officials say it’s dodging taxes by building on federal land : “Any for-profit entity of (Google’s) magnitude using land owned by the people should not escape paying their fair share,” said Larry Stone, Santa Clara County’s tax assessor. If Google were to build its campus on county land, he estimated, it could generate as
In the latest of a series of rulings, a federal judge has issued a $1.45 billion judgment against Morgan Stanley for not keeping records of email communications . Partly in response to such rulings, many corporations now have detailed email retention policies and keep years of email records. But this is a lose-lose situation for companies: five
What is the Mises Institute?
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.