Americans got two terrifying reminders today of the importance of armed citizens and our Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms; not only for our own individual defense, but for the defense of others and our communities.  An attacker at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia was able to kill one ROTC cadet and critically injure another before he was stabbed to death by another cadet in the classroom where the ROTC course was taking place. Just hours later, a man in a truck plowed through the front doors of a synagogue in Michigan,…

This article was originally published by George Pickering at The Mises Institute.  As Mark Thornton has detailed in his brilliant book, The Skyscraper Curse, Austrian School economists’ unique theory of the business cycle has given them a distinct advantage in foreseeing oncoming economic crises: from Ludwig von Mises’s 1920s predictions of looming bank failures, to Thornton’s own 2004 warnings of the housing bubble and its consequences. Contemporary Austrians continue to apply this theory when scrutinizing the anxious landscape of today’s economy, looking for early warning signs of where central bank monetary manipulation will manifest itself next. However, depending on the course which…

I met 67-year-old Charlie Gandy at the last Walmart on the xTx trail. He still had 943 miles left to go — including long linkages through the Chihuahuan Desert with no water, bracing segments on narrow roadways, and a thicket of property lines in a state that’s 95% private land. A friend of Gandy’s and fellow long-distance Texas route developer put the challenge in perspective. Lawrence Walker contributed to the Texas portion of the Southern Tier bike route in the ‘90s. “Sure, it was hard, but I didn’t have to borrow a donkey to try to find Gatorade 400 miles…