After the US jobs report and Fed speak, the market scaled back the odds of a 50 bp cut at the September 17-18 FOMC meeting. It settled last week slightly below a 30% chance. The odds were shaved for the second consecutive week. Fed officials have indicated that the full employment mandate is now of greater significance given its growing confidence that inflation is heading back toward its 2% target. Next week's August CPI and PPI are likely to be consistent with...
Read More »America Now Has Fewer Employed Workers than It Did a Year Ago
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....
Read More »Conceptual Clarity in Dismantling Economic Jargon
It might seem like common sense to say that good ideas should be clear, but the notion that good ideas should be obscure and inaccessible to laymen has long been prevalent in academic circles. Murray Rothbard describes Keynes’s General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money as, “not truly revolutionary at all but merely old and oft-refuted mercantilist and inflationist fallacies dressed up in shiny new garb, replete with newly constructed and largely...
Read More »Is Artificial Intelligence the Next Easy-Money Bust?
Since early 2022, the big buzz in the tech industry, and among laymen in the general public, has been “artificial intelligence.” While the concept isn’t new—AI has been the term used to describe how computers play games since at least the 1980s—it’s once again captured the public’s imagination.Before getting into the meat of the article, a brief primer is necessary. When talking about AI, it’s important to understand what is meant. AI can be broken down into seven...
Read More »Where Will All the Money Go?
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....
Read More »Bitcoin, Ether & Co.: Die Performance der Kryptowährungen in KW 36
So bewegten sich die einzelnen Kryptowährungen in der Kalenderwoche 36: [embedded content] Tags: Featured,newsletter
Read More »Bitcoin-Derivate im Fokus: NASDAQ plant Einführung von Indexoptionen
• NASDAQ will Anlegern per Bitcoin mehr Risikostreuung anbieten<br> • Bitcoin-Optionen seit Mitte des Jahres an der NYSE<br> • Bitcoin-Optionen vs. Bitcoin-Index-Optionen<!-- sh_cad_1 --> <h2>US-Techbörse NASDAQ will Bitcoin-Indexoptionen anbieten</h2> Ende August 2024 reichte die US-Technologiebörse NASDAQ bei der Börsenaufsicht SEC... [embedded content]...
Read More »The Taboo Against Truth: Holocausts and Historians
“Speaking truth to power” is not easy when you support that power. Perhaps this is the reason why so few Western historians are willing to tell the whole truth about state crimes during this century.Last fall the Moscow News reported the discovery by two archaeologist-historians of mass graves at Kuropaty, near Minsk, in the Soviet republic of Byelorussia. The scholars at first estimated that the victims numbered around 102,000, a figure that was later revised to...
Read More »The Origin of Money: Menger vs. Graeber
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....
Read More »Libertarianism vs. Microlibertarianism
Libertarianism is a consistent and principled philosophy that is absolute in scope and universal in application.We can begin with this classic description of libertarianism by libertarianism’s greatest theorist, Murray Rothbard (1926–1995):Libertarianism is not and does not pretend to be a complete moral, or aesthetic theory; it is only a political theory, that is, the important subset of moral theory that deals with the proper role of violence in social life....
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