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The Iran War Brings More Inflation and New Strength to the Yuan
Beyond the initial oil shock, the Iran war is also laying the foundation for ongoing monetary inflation and price inflation, with no real change to the US…
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Rothbard on Interventionism: Writing the Last Chapter of Economic Theory
Professor Joseph Salerno traces how Rothbard's mastery of the praxeological method led him to the controversial but logically airtight conclusion that business…
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Big Government vs. Small Business in America
America has a long history of vibrant small business. But small business went into decline in the twentieth century, and it wasn't just due to large scale…
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Government Planning Doesn’t Fix Economies
Hayek and Mises warned that centrally planned economies fail, and that intervention breeds inflation, instability, and boom-bust cycles. Yet socialism is…
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The Mantle of Science
In this 1960 essay, Murray Rothbard warns critics of scientism not to concede the very term science to positivist methodology. He reclaims scientia as “correct…
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On the Shoulders of Shrinking Giants
Professor Lucas Engelhardt examines how mainstream economics has deliberately abandoned the history of economic thought, and why Austrian economists must keep…
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Visualizing The Boom-Bust Cycle with Roger Garrison
In memory of Roger Garrison, Bob walks through Garrison's famous capital-based macroeconomics diagrams, showing how they translate the Mises-Hayek theory of…
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War, Gold, and the Fed’s Next Move
On this episode of Minor Issues, Mark Thornton replays two short interviews: one recorded with Daniela Cambone weeks before the outbreak of war in the Middle…
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It’s Not Anarcho-Tyranny, It’s Interventionist Non-Intervention
Combining binary and triangular interventions, the state coercively taxes citizens to pay for its services, monopolizes certain services, and then is…
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Sterile Money, Fiat Sex: The End of Growth, in One Lesson
Dr. Catherine Pakaluk connects the dots between fiat money, the sexual revolution, and collapsing birthrates, arguing that a culture built on “sterile” choices…
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From Vienna to Madrid: A Libertarian Vision of Scientific and Moral Truth
Jesús Huerta de Soto traces the Austrian school's intellectual roots from the Spanish scholastics to Rothbard, making the case that anarcho-capitalism is the…
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(Classical) Liberalism Has Not Failed, and We Need It Now More Than Ever
The Ralph Raico Memorial Lecture, sponsored by Murray and Florence Sabrin. Presented at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama. Below is a written version of…
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Remembering Paul Ehrlich (Even If We Would Rather Not)
Neo-Malthusian Paul Ehrlich recently passed away, but not before his false doomsday claims made his a very wealthy man. Original article…
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No, We Cannot “Afford” This War with Iran Either
Leftists sarcastically asking where the money for this war will come from are right about the GOP’s hypocrisy, but wrong to imply that it actually means…
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Roger Garrison and the Sustainable Growth of the Austrian School
Generations of scholars come and go; a few, including Roger Garrison, make their mark on the field and inspire future generations to do the same. Original…
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Rothbard Never Abandoned His Principles
As we continue to celebrate the centennial of the birth of Murray Rothbard, Wanjiru Njoya reminds us that he never compromised his principles and stood for…
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Gold Is Sounding the Alarm on Debt, the Dollar, and the Next Crisis
Daniela Cambone interviews Dr. Mark Thornton on why gold’s surge signals a deeper breakdown: collapsing confidence in dollar assets, runaway deficits, and…
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Popular Interest Rate Theory Describes but Fails to Explain
Milton Friedman and others tried to explain interest rates using liquidity, economic activity, and inflation expectations. These things, however, only describe…
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Cultural Marxism Masquerading as True History
Modern academic historians have been captured by the cultural Marxists, no matter how much they deny the obvious truth. Original article…
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Is Another Stone Age in the Making?
As war drums beat again, this time against Iran, we ask ourselves if recklessness from Donald Trump and European and Israeli leaders is pushing us to…
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The Theory of the Bottom 99%
On the latest episode of Minor Issues, Mark Thornton tackles the “Austrians don’t care about the poor” smear, arguing that Austrian monetary theory is designed…
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Rothbard at 100: Five Economic Insights That Still Matter
In commemoration of Murray Rothbard’s 100th birthday, Bob shares five “greatest hits” from Rothbard’s economics, covering deficits vs. inflation, monopoly…
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Only Power Can Check Power
The radical classical liberals of the past were not so naive as to think that words on paper would prevent the abuses of the central state. Allowing the…
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The Strait of Hormuz is On Fire
On this episode of Power & Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho look at the economic fallout from the war in Iran. How has Iran been able to control the Strait of…
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The Duke Lacrosse Case 20 Years Later: How Durham Law Enforcement Promoted a Criminal Conspiracy
The Duke Lacrosse Case would never have been a legal item had not the police and prosecutors of the case lied and broken the law on numerous occasions. Here is…
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Launching a War on Iran Was No Act of Courage
As recent history shows, there are few things more courageous for a president to do than face down the ever-accelerating, wealth-draining, conflict-amplifying…
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Iran War Hype, Gold, and the Fed’s Debt Bubble
On the latest episode of Minor Issues, Mark Thornton appears on Arcadia Economics with Chris Marcus during a volatile week for gold and silver amid the…
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Why The Iran War Won't Go the Way Trump Hopes
The Trump White House can't decide on a reason for why it went to war. But one goal is clearly regime change. Ryan McMaken and Zachary Yost discuss the many…
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Rothbard and the American Revolution
As we celebrate the Centennial of the birth of Murray Rothbard, we look at his commentary on the American Revolution, where it promoted liberty and where the…
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Operation Ajax (1953): The CIA’s Template—and Warnings for Today
The current US conflict with Iran has its roots in the CIA-backed coup in 1953, which removed a democratically-elected prime minister and replaced him with the…
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The War We've Been Waiting For
Trump has brought the US into war with Iran. Ryan, Tho, and Connor talk about the initial execution, the domestic fallout, the global costs, and what may come…
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Trump's Iran War Shows How American "Democracy" Really Works
When it comes to foreign policy, what matters are powerful interest groups. The ordinary voters who pay all the bills don't matter. The interest groups pushing…
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The Duke Lacrosse Case Exposed the Rot in Higher Education, the Media, and the Justice System
It has been 20 years since the Duke Lacrosse Case dominated the news media. It was a story in which false narratives of guilt pushed by corrupt police and…
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Rothbard and War
Those who believe in the free and unhampered market economy should be especially skeptical of war and military action. War, after all, is the ultimate…
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Trump’s War with Iran Is Even More of a Disaster than People Realize
The problem with this new campaign in Iran is not merely that it will likely have bad near-term consequences, but that it represents the American government…
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The Iran War Exposes the Farce of American "Representative Democracy"
The current war is a timely reminder that the US ruling elites regard the US taxpayers and ordinary Americans as little more than inconvenient afterthoughts in…
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Banning Congress, Not Markets: The Insider Trading Dilemma
Bob uses Trump’s call to ban congressional insider trading as a springboard to explain why, from an Austro-libertarian perspective, insider trading and…
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War Guilt in the Middle East
Into the heart of the peasant and nomadic Arab world of the Middle East there came, on the backs and on the bayonets of British imperialism, a largely European…
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The Fight for Liberty and the Beltway Barbarians
Are we emphasizing “the negative”? In a sense, yes, but what else are we to stress when our values, our principles, our very being are under attack from a…
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Fiat Inflationary Nightmare: How to Reform the Financial System
On this episode of Minor Issues, Mark Thornton appears on Reinvent Money with Paul Buitink for a “state of the system” conversation. Mark breaks down the US…
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Massachusetts 1690: The First Western Fiat Experiment
When the Massachusetts colony issued its own unredeemable paper money in 1690, it was with the promise that it would soon be redeemable in specie. Like all…
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What Is the State of the Union?
On this episode of Power and Market, we feel compelled to discuss this week's State of the Union speech. Ryan and Tho are joined by Dr. Jonathan Newman to…
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Creative Destroyer: The Apolitical Story of the Surgery Center of Oklahoma
Dr. Keith Smith recounts how the Surgery Center of Oklahoma and the Free Market Medical Association are exposing the hospital–insurance cartel—posting honest…
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'Nature-Al’ Entrepreneurship: Being Green Without the State
Dr. Timothy Terrell explains how entrepreneurs and property rights can protect forests, wildlife, and open spaces better than bureaucracies, using real-world…
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The Bill of Rights Against the States
We are told that the Bill of Rights is the bedrock of our freedom, yet this same Bill of Rights ultimately has been used as a weapon against state sovereignty…
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In Defense of National Borders
The current outburst of protests against President Trump’s enforcement of immigration laws is overshadowing a question that is not being asked: Can we defend…
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We Act in a World of Uncertainty, Not Probabilities
Human action involves people engaging in unique events in which outcomes often are uncertain, when expertise and planning often do not give us the results we…
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Class Conflict, the Jacksonians, and Exploitation
In a truly free market, there is no class conflict. In the presence of the state, however, things are different because various groups jockey with each other…
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Anarcho-Tyranny and the UK Grooming Gangs Scandal
The rise of the grooming gangs in Great Britain and the refusal of Britain’s Labor government to intervene speaks volumes about the contempt that British…
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Trump’s Iran Buildup Is Based on a Lie
If the Iranian regime were truly trying to sacrifice their entire country to commit a nation-level nuclear murder-suicide against Israel and the US, they would…
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How to Change the World: Entrepreneurship vs. Politics
Dr. Per Bylund contrasts the futility of politics with the quiet power of entrepreneurship, showing how innovative businesses like Uber and Amazon actually…
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Grading Trump’s First Year: the Border, DOGE, Debt, Energy
Ryan McMaken joins John Stossel to grade President Trump’s first year of his second term. They walk through the biggest issues shaping the country—government…
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Entrepreneurship and Free Markets in the Age of AI
Dr. Peter Klein explores whether AI can ever replace human entrepreneurs and central planners, arguing from Mises’ calculation problem that even “thinking…
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The Decline of Small Business in America
Ryan McMaken traces the rise and squeeze of America’s small business economy, showing how tariffs, industrial policy, the Fed, and “too big to fail” bailouts…
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Rothbard and Eminent Domain: Confused History and Legal Sleight of Hand
Governments at all levels abuse their “privilege” of eminent domain, the taking of private property for government use. Murray Rothbard understood that…
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From Tariffs to Gold: Reading the Regime
On this special episode of Minor Issues, Mark Thornton shares his recent interview with Darrell Thomas on VRIC Media. Mark explains how Keynesian ideas…
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Milei Defends Capitalism and Austrian Economics at the WEF
This week, Bob walks through Javier Milei’s 2026 address to the World Economic Forum, explaining the Austrian and neoclassical ideas behind Milei’s defense of…
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Nock’s War on the State
Before Murray Rothbard, there was Albert Jay Nock laying intellectual broadsides against the tyranny of the state. While Nock (unlike Rothbard) never called…
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The End of Artificial Employment
AI is not the killer—it is the coroner. Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/end-artificial-employment
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Antebellum Federal Protections of Slavery
Unfortunately, slavery was not just propped up by policy in the slave states, but federally. It is often overlooked that the federal government—not just slave…