Since Bitcoin’s introduction in 2009, the IRS has left users in the dark about the tax liability of their assets. On Tuesday, the IRS clarified its position on the tax status of virtual currencies, and it’s official: Bitcoin is property and not currency, at least as far as the...
Can you smell that? It is the smell of panic in the air. As I have noted before, when financial markets catch up to economic reality they tend to do so very rapidly. Normally we don't see virtually all asset classes get slammed at the same time, but the...
Murray N. Rothbard used to say that it is impossible to convince the economically illiterate with reductios ad absurdum. Why? This is because the very purpose of this type of logical argument is to embarrass our friends on the Left (and the Right too, sad to say, see below) by...
On Wednesday December 12, 2012 Fed policy makers announced that they will boost their main stimulus tool by adding $45 billion of monthly Treasury purchases to an existing program to buy $40 billion of mortgage debt a month. This decision is likely to boost the Fed’s balance sheet...
Jeff Deist | MISES
Perhaps no economic pronouncement in history has been anticipated, discussed, predicted, dissected, and reported like the Federal Reserve’s momentous decision today not to raise interest rates.
The outpouring of relief witnessed today by the financial press is nothing short of cathartic. Fear and anxiety, built up over...