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The Fed Desperately Tries to Maintain the Status Quo
The Fed Desperately Tries to Maintain the Status Quo During the press conferences of recent FOMC meetings, millions of well-educated investment professionals have been sitting in front of their screens, chewing their fingernails, listening as if spellbound to what Janet Yellen has to tell them. Will she finally raise the federal funds rate that has […]
Should everyone vote?
Should everyone vote? It’s election time in Canada, and as usual ad campaigns on TV, radio, print, and even Facebook are urging “everyone” to vote. But is that such a good thing? To ask it another way: Is it really a good thing to tell people who are ignorant of law (so they don’t know […]
The TPP is Supply Management
The TPP is Supply Management Despite the talk from the establishment about how the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is about global free trade – and therefore Canadian cows, chickens and cars can no longer be protected by supply management – the reality is, is that the TPP is supply management. It’s supply management on an international level so […]
Bishop: Ben Carson Upsets Washington Post for Questioning Fiat Money
Bishop: Ben Carson Upsets Washington Post for Questioning Fiat Money Tho Bishop writes: Neurosurgeon-turned-Presidential candidate Ben Carson has been under attack this week by our PC-enforcers in the media. While most of the media scorn has been directed at Carson’s defense of gun ownership following last week’s shooting in Oregon – Matt O’Brien of the Washington Post slapped at Carson […]
Inside Ground Zero Of Canada’s Recession
Inside Ground Zero Of Canada’s Recession In the past year, we have extensively profiled the collapse of ground zero of Canada’s oil industry as a result of the plunge in the price of oil, in posts such as the following: “Canada Crude Contagion: Calgary Home Prices Drop Most In 2 Years“ “Canada’s Biggest Oil Casualty […]
Why Economics Matters
Why Economics Matters This article is a selection from a June 19 presentation at a lunchtime meeting of the Grassroot Institute in Honolulu at the Pacific Club. The talk was part of the Mises Institute’s Private Seminar series for lay audiences. To schedule your own Private Seminar with a Mises Institute speaker, please contact Kristy Holmes at the Mises Institute. First let me say that what we today […]
We Are All Preppers Now
We Are All Preppers Now Damian McBride is the former head of communications at the British treasury and former special adviser to Gordon Brown, erstwhile Prime Minister of the U.K. Yesterday he tweeted some surprising advice in response to the plunge in global equities markets.; Advice on the looming crash, No. 1: get hard cash in a safe […]
How Keynes Almost Prevented the Keynesian Revolution
How Keynes Almost Prevented the Keynesian Revolution October 30, 1929. A brisk autumn’s day in Manhattan. The Savoy-Plaza Hotel’s thirty-three stories cast a long shadow over Central Park. At the base of the hotel a financier lies freshly fallen, motionless, while his last breath, wrenched from the lungs by force of impact, is now a […]
The War On Cash: Why Now?
The War On Cash: Why Now? You’ve probably read that there is a “war on cash” being waged on various fronts around the world. What exactly does a “war on cash” mean? It means governments are limiting the use of cash and a variety of official-mouthpiece economists are calling for the outright abolition of cash. […]
Keynesians Wrong About Stimulus, Coming AND Going
Keynesians Wrong About Stimulus, Coming AND Going In a previous post here at Mises CA I chronicled the hole Krugman keeps digging for himself regarding the botched warnings over the so-called “sequester” in 2013. Specifically, Krugman’s latest excuse is to say that when he argued back in 2013 that the sequester was a “fiscal doomsday machine” and […]
