My resource page: LearnAustrianEconomics.com .

Is that a threat or a promise?

Maurice Taylor , who heads tire manufacturer Titan International, told the French government yesterday that his firm would not take over a money-losing Goodyear factory. “How stupid do you think we are?” he demanded. I have visited that factory a couple of times. The French workforce gets…
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Tucker Max gives six reasons (n.b.: some bad language). I’ll add a seventh: if you want to study constitutional law in law school, you would be happier studying economics under Paul Krugman. A few samples from Tucker Max (the text that follows is his): 1. “I like arguing…
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Robert Wenzel destroys him , of course. Weisenthal tweeted that all the proof you need that the Austrians are a “cult” is that they have invented “their own language.” His evidence? Austrians define inflation in terms of an increase in the money stock rather than as an increase in…
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Says Politico . But who knows what this means? For some people, it doubtless means Congress isn’t moving fast enough to shovel them free stuff.

Earlier this month I was asked by a group in Cleveland, Texas, to give an overview of recent U.S. economic history for a beginner audience. This was the result.

In his first public address since his loss to Barack Obama, Mitt Romney will address CPAC , the famed conservative gathering, next month. I attended and spoke at CPAC in 2009, 2010, and 2011. There I finally met people I knew must exist but had honestly never seen before: college-age…
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Richard Viguerie is offering $10,000 for a plan to take the Republican Party back from the “big government Republicans” and put it in the hands of “limited government, constitutional conservatives.”

The Mises Institute ‘s Mark Thornton talks sacred cows and U.S. history.