Top Ten for 2012

As the year winds down, it is customary to look back and see what we can see. The top ten most popular blog posts from last year are as follows:

1.  The Myth of Smaller Government

2.  U.S. Economy Grows at 2%?

3.   Austrian Student Scholars Conference 2013

4.   Herbener to Testify on Federal Reserve

5.   Titanic Fact and Fiction

6.   America's Youth Embrace the Entitlement Culture

7.   The Economist Magazine on Austrian Economics

8.   Ritenour Quoted in U.S. News and World Report

9.  Freiling on Power and Market

10. Fraud: The Cause of the Great Recession

 The top ten all-time most popular posts are as follows:

 1.The German Hyperinflation

2.  Wages Sticky Downward?
3.  The Myth of Smaller Government 4. Businesses Cannot Simply Pass on Taxes to Consumers  5.  Confusing GDP with the Economy 6.  U.S. Economy Grows at 2%? 7. Austrian Student Scholars Conference 2013 8.  The Lack of Coincidence of Wants 9.  Herbener to Testify on Federal Reserve 10. John Stuart Mill Was a Masochist

Foundations of Economics is Two Years Old!

Two weeks ago, this blog turned two years old. Since its inception it has been my intention to provide basic economic analysis to economic theory and policy. I intend that policy to be firmly rooted in the property foundations of economic analysis, taking account of the nature of man and the created order. For those who are interested, the ten all-time most popular blog posts are as follows:

10. Black Tuesday, Federal Reserve Edition

 9. Titanic Fact and Fiction

 8. Capital in Proverbs

 7. Responding to Economic Recession: Like Japan, Like the United States

 6. Businesses Cannot Simply Pass on Taxes to Consumers

 5. Herbener to Testify on Federal Reserve

 4. Wages Sticky Downward?

 3. The Lack of Coincidence of Wants

 2. Confusing GDP with the Economy

and the all-time most read post on Foundations of Economics is. . .. .

 1. The German Hyperinflation

Top Posts of 2010

Foundations of Economics Year in Review:

The most popular posts of 2010:

1.   Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Inflation?

2.   Making the Economy Worse Through Mortgage Subsidies

3.   Responding to Economic Recession: Like Japan, Like the United States

4.   Inflation and Government Spending Do Not Provide Prosperity

5.   Don't Politicize the Fed?

6.   Instructor's Manual and Study Guide Now Available

7.   Bernanke: Apoplithorismosphobist-in-Chief

8.   Fighting Poverty with Capitalism

9.   Augustine and Property Rights

10. Voluntary Exchanges and the Free Market

Thanks to my readers, commenters, and correspondents.

Happy New Year!