SINGAPORE – China approved another 114 gigawatts (GW) of coal power capacity in 2023, up 10% from a year earlier, with the world’s top carbon polluter now at risk of falling short on climate targets after sanctioning dozens of new plants, research ...
WASHINGTON – The Internal Revenue Service said on Wednesday it plans to crack down on wealthy executives who may be using company jets for personal trips but claiming the costs as business expenses for tax purposes, as part of a new audit ...
LONDON – Climbing costs at HSBC have added to growing investor concerns about how big banks manage their expenses, putting executives under pressure to quickly address spending. Although banks have seen revenues balloon in the higher interest rate environment of recent years, fast-rising ...
Americans across the board have routinely spoken for term limits. Recently, however, this has been most common among Republican politicians. On January 29, Ron DeSantis announced his legislative priorities over social media as he found himself no longer focused on ...
Guido Hülsmann’s Abundance, Generosity, and the State provides readers with an explanation of the nature and causes of gratuitous goods. Hülsmann demonstrates how free markets are infused with both intentional and unintentional gratuity, and how the repressive and permissive interventions ...
The Misesian (TM): The economics behind gift giving and charity have long been a neglected topic among researchers and economists. What prompted you to launch your own investigation into the topic? Jörg Guido Hülsmann (JGH): The economic literature on gifts ...
Welcome to the first issue of The Misesian. We’ve decided to rename The Austrian magazine The Misesian to emphasize how Ludwig von Mises remains at the center of everything that that is today called the Austrian School of economics. When ...
Milton Friedman: The Last ConservativeBy Jennifer BurnsFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023; x + 587 pp. Imagine that you come across this about the “education premium” on someone’s blog: “By going to college, you are more than tripling your chances for ...
In this edition of StockCharts TV‘s The Final Bar, Dave breaks down the latest market breadth indicators, ranging from bullish (S&P 500 advance-decline line) to bearish (Bullish Percent Indexes breaking down) to everything in between. He also analyzes key growth names including ...
On this week’s edition of StockCharts TV‘s Halftime, Pete takes a look at long-term trends. Semiconductors taking it on the chin. Inflation is still a problem. Bonds are selling off, and the Fed isn’t cutting rates until, in Pete’s opinion, the unemployment ...