The first full week of 2016 has been an eventful start to the year.
In Oregon, the Federal government’s control over most of the American west continues to cause issues with ranchers — even though they themselves enjoy benefits from the arrangement. On Tuesday, President Obama continued the bipartisan assault on gun rights with an argument reliant on inflated statistics. Meanwhile, Rand Paul finds Mises, Bernie Sanders still hasn’t learned that price controls are bad, and Americans are voting with their feet for lower taxes.
On the global stage, China’s unsustainable economy continues to show signs of weakness, while new data shows Krugman is still very wrong about Europe, and socialism has done funny things to Venezuelan exchange rates.
We also took a moment to consider the legacy of Murray Rothbard twenty-one years after his passing. Luckily the ideas of Rothbard, Mises, and the rest of the Austrian school have never been more widely spread, in large part due to the work of a new generation of scholars that have come through the Mises Fellowship program.
Our latest Mises Weekends focuses on the Switzerland referendum on 100 percent reserve banking. Our friend Claudio Grass, managing director of Global Gold in Switzerland, joins Jeff Deist to give his thoughts. Who’s behind the referendum? How have the Swiss public reacted? Does it have a chance?
Jeff and Claudio offer comprehensive analysis you won’t get anywhere else.
And in case you missed any of them, here are this week’s featured Mises Daily articles and some of our most popular articles at Mises Wire:
- Why Austrians Are Not Neoliberals by Philipp Bagus
- Are We Headed for Another Bust? by Frank Shostak
- "Paradise for an Austrian Researcher" by David Sanz Bas
- Venezuela's Bizarre System of Exchange Rates by Emiliana Disilvestro and David Howden
- End Injustices Now, Not Later by Gary Galles
- On Gun Control, Obama Looks like Reagan and Bush by Ryan McMaken
- Rand Paul Echoes Mises on Money by Tho Bishop
- Oregon and the Problem of Federal Lands by Ryan McMaken
- Remembering the First World War: the Centennial of the 1916 Slaughters by T. Hunt Tooley
- Guns Don't Cause Suicide by Ryan McMaken
- The Basic Lessons of Keynesian Economics by Joseph Salerno
- Police Departments Overflowing with Extra Time, Money by Ryan McMaken
- Would President Sanders Repeal Dodd-Frank? by Tho Bishop
- Census Data Shows People Are Fleeing High-Tax States by Ryan McMaken
- Most Market Criticism is Simply Poor Science by Per Bylund
- Murray Rothbard by David Gordon
- A Call to Activism from the Late Margit von Mises by Jeff Deist
- Rothbard's Legacy, 21 Years Later by Ryan McMaken
- Cultural Marxism Explained in 7 Minutes by Joseph Salerno
- Paul Krugman is Still Wrong on Europe by Louis Rouanet
- How The Feds Got All That Western Land (and Why It's a Problem) by Ryan McMaken
