2021-05-10

Update May 10 2021: SNB intervening. Sight Deposits have risen by +3.6 bn CHF, this means that the SNB is intervening and buying Euros and Dollars: The change is +3.6 bn. compared to last week.

2021-01-26

Should skepticism of the 2020 election, fueled by a new administration’s actions, finally convince 50+ million Trump supporters that the barbarians in the Beltway do not represent him, then Trump’s presidency will be—despite his own actions—the disruption that America’s elites truly feared.

Original Article: "Trump’s Potential Legacy: 50 Million+ Enemies of the State"
This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon. Narrated by Michael Stack.

2021-01-22

Although advocates for covid-19 lockdowns continue to insist that they save lives, actual experience keeps suggesting otherwise. On a national level, just eyeballing the data makes this clear. Countries that have implemented harsh lockdowns shouldn’t expect to have comparatively lower numbers of covid-19 deaths per million.

2021-01-14

In the early 1980s few outlets existed for anyone interested in the Austrian school of economics or robust libertarian scholarship. Few universities taught Hayek, much less Mises or Rothbard. Libraries and bookstores carried little of interest for serious economists and thinkers in the old liberal tradition.

2020-11-30

In terms of their widespread application and rapid implementation, covid-19 policies have been the most egregious violations of Canada’s constitution, ever. But my opinion doesn’t matter, because judges are the only people allowed to interpret the constitution—a convenient arrangement for the government.

2020-11-26

On October 25, 2020, 78 percent of Chilean voters went to the ballot box to approve rewriting the country’s constitution, largely viewed as Latin America’s most stable constitution.

2020-11-20

It should be self-evident that a just and moral political regime can only exist in the long term if a sufficiently large number of people actually believe in it.