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Lincoln's New Deal
Abraham Lincoln is best known for his role as a wartime president, but his economic policies were a precursor to the New Deal. From railroad subsidies to a…
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Christine Lagarde and the Privatization of Currency
EU Central Bank President Christine Lagarde has declared that anything that might lead to private currencies must be stopped. Yet, as F.A. Hayek noted, one way…
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The Life Source Missing from Today’s Narratives
America recently celebrated Independence Day, but Americans were too quick to abandon their own individual freedoms and individual sovereignty and submit to…
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Mother O’ Mercy! Is This the End of the Cal Bullet Train?
The Trump administration has withdrawn its promised $4 billion for the California Bullet Train project because this project does not have a viable future…
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Nobody for Fed Chairman
The proper answer to who should be Fed chairman is…nobody. Nobody knows the “correct” interest rate. Original article…
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Trump’s Tariff Ship Has Sailed: The Chinese Ship Levy
President Trump is proposing a $1.5 million levy on Chinese-built ships that enter US harbors. Since a majority of cargo ships have been produced by Chinese…
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Why Classical-Liberal Constitutionalism Has Failed
The old classical liberal political tactics of constitutionalism, state building, and universal suffrage have clearly failed. Original article…
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The FTC versus Fortnite: “Consumer Protection” is Consumer Deception
The Federal Trade Commission has fined the makers of the video game Fortnite more than $500 million ostensibly for violations that have no legal basis. This is…
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WNBA Players: “Pay Us What You Owe Us”
Discussions of wages often miss the all-important economic of a worker‘s diminishing marginal value product (DMVP), and the WNBA is no exception. Original…
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The US-EU Trade “Deal” is Nothing to Celebrate
The White House is boasting about a new trade “deal” with the EU. But every supposed benefit that comes from the agreement applies only to a small subset of…
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Special Mises U Episode with David Brady, Jr.
Tho Bishop and Connor O’Keeffe sat down with Mises Summer Fellow David Brady, Jr. during Mises University last week to discuss the summer fellowship, his…
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Don’t Ship Weapons to Troubled Hot Spots
Once he took office, Trump continued Biden‘s policy of massive arms shipments to Israel. Trump even sent American bombers to attack Iran‘s nuclear facilities…
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Federal Student Loans Drive Up College Tuition Levels
Like every other government program designed to make something “more affordable,” the student loan program has managed to drive college tuition to atmospheric…
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Why Racism Can't Explain Europe's Drive for Conquest and Colonial Power
Historically, Europeans had few qualms about conquering and enslaving other Europeans. This presents some problems for the narrative claiming that injustices…
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Tariffs Mean Lost Jobs
The goalposts are continually changing (more like fallacy-hopping), but one would-be goal of tariffs needs to be confronted—tariffs for domestic job…
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Axe the Bank of Portugal Before It Does More Harm
The Federal Reserve is not the only central bank in the world doing monetary and economic damage. Portugal's central bank, working as a branch of the European…
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Can Surveys Provide Insight Into the State of the Economy?
Surveys used to gauge optimism or pessimism about the economy may be interesting to read, but unless they are the product of sound and realistic economic…
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Key Elements of a Market-Based Health System
Most people believe that ours is a “free-market” healthcare system, but nothing could be further from the truth. A true market-based system as explained here…
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Understanding Stablecoins and US Crypto Policy
Recorded live at the 2025 Mises University, Bob talks to PhD student Jason Priddle to understand the GENIUS Act—a landmark piece of legislation aimed at…
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Closing Remarks and Awards Ceremony
Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 26, 2025. Mises University is the world's leading instructional program in the Austrian School of…
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The Canadian Arctic Fur Trade: A Case Study of Freedom
Daniella Bassi tells the remarkable story of the Arctic fur trade as a real-world case study in stateless order. In early 20th-century northern Canada, Inuit…
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Inflation: True or Out of the Blue
On this episode, Mark Thornton gives a crash course on the sleight-of-hand world of inflation, how it really works, why the official story doesn’t add up, and…
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Energy Transition as a Tool for Fascist Capitalism
Europeans are being forced into an energy transition through debt-fueled spending that will lead to permanently higher energy prices and stifle European…
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Human Reason as the Foundation of Civilization
Human reason, wrote Ludwig von Mises, is the basis for civilization itself. Western civilization, he said, was built upon economic progress that sprang from…
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Economic Inequality
Is economic inequality really the crisis it's made out to be, or is it a misunderstood feature of a healthy, free market society? Mark Thornton dismantles the…
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Environmental Conservation
Timothy Terrell challenges the mainstream view that markets fail to protect the environment, arguing instead that government intervention often distorts land…
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How Psychology Is Catching Up with the Reality of Human Action
Modern psychology has been at odds with the praxeology of the Austrian School, as psychologists have tended to see humans as passive and reactive, while…
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Economics of Interventionism
Lucas Engelhardt explores the economics of interventionism, tracing Ludwig von Mises’s core argument that state interference in markets is both self-defeating…
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Four Reasons Why College Degrees Are Becoming Useless
If education and career skills are what you want, a college or university may be a waste of your time and money. Original article…
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Busting the "Free College" Myth
If New Yorkers wanted to help students by paying for their tuition, they would have already done so on their own. Original article…
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America’s Syrian Civil War
In Syria the damage is done, and future generations will continue to suffer from the cruel folly of those convinced they know how to run everyone else’s lives…
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An Honneth Effort
In this week's Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon takes on Alex Honneth's The Working Sovereign. While Dr. Gordon acknowledges that the author gives an…
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MMTers Love When Governments Burn Money
Even when MMT advocates are correct that colonial governments at times burned money after receiving it for tax revenues, they still manage to get both the…
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Money for Nothing: How Higher Ed Became Scammy
Tim Terrell offers a critical examination of higher education’s economic structure, exploring how federal subsidies, credential inflation, and misaligned…
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Bureaucrats in the Deep State
Tate Fegley analyzes the deep state through the lens of Austrian economics, showing how bureaucratic insulation, lack of economic calculation, and political…
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An Open Letter to Treasury Secretary Bessent
Dr. DiLorenzo has some words for Secretary Bessent about the true role of the Fed and its record in this open letter. Original article…
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What Henry Hazlitt Knew and What You Should Know About Inflation
Bob Murphy examines Henry Hazlitt’s treatment of inflation in Economics in One Lesson, highlighting key insights on monetary expansion, Cantillon effects, and…
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The Covid Fiasco: Reflections Five Years Later
Through a detailed, real-time narrative, Tom Woods examines the inconsistencies, unintended consequences, and bureaucratic incentives behind lockdowns, mask…
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Modern Monetary Theory
Bob Murphy and Jonathan Newman take on the rising popularity of Modern Monetary Theory and explain why it stands in direct opposition to Austrian economics…
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Private Property and Customer Safety: Starbucks Learns a Hard Lesson
The news that Starbucks is closing sixteen stores due to customer safety concerns exposes the lack of police protection in cities and the problems with…
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Game Theory
Lucas Engelhardt challenges conventional applications of game theory by integrating the Austrian perspective on entrepreneurship, showing how creative action…
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Growth of the Austrian School
Paul Cwik and Shawn Ritenour revisit the often-overlooked "forgotten Austrians" who extended Mengerian economics beyond Vienna. From Wicksteed and Fetter to…
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Do WNBA Players Really Want to Be Paid What They Are Owed?
At the recent WNBA All-Star game, players wore T-shirts with the message, “Pay us what you owe us.” If one uses the discounted marginal revenue product as a…
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The Virus That Was Born an Orphan: The Origin of SARS-CoV-2 and the Silence of Institutions
When the covid madness was imposed upon the world five years ago, the lockdown advocates claimed they were just “doing science.” In reality, they were ignoring…
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Rothbardian Analysis of the Constitution
Patrick Newman offers a Rothbardian critique of the US Constitution, arguing that rather than establishing a framework for limited government and individual…
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Economic and Social Consequences of Inflation
Inflation isn’t just about rising prices. It’s a systematic distortion of economic signals, fueling inequality, eroding social mobility, and undermining real…
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The Political Economy of Policing
Tate Fegley examines how the structure of state-run police departments—lacking profit-and-loss mechanisms—leads to systemic inefficiencies, distorted…
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Growth versus Prosperity
Shawn Ritenour critiques mainstream growth models that emphasize abstract inputs like capital accumulation and technological innovation, arguing instead for a…
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Race and Discrimination
Are markets a friend to minorities? Economist Walter Williams thought so, and Wanjiru Njoya explains why. Her lecture cuts through critical race theory dogma…
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Repugnant Markets
Sandra Klein takes on dwarf-tossing, horse meat, and human organ sales to show how moral squeamishness isn't a market failure, it's just a preference. Recorded…
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Objections to Capitalism
Timothy Terrell tackles the most common objections to capitalism, from inequality myths to profit “villainy,” and offers a principled, empirical defense of…
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Will an Iran Cyber Attack Panic Usher In a New Patriot Act?
In the wake of the US bombing of Iran, media outlets are warning about Iran retaliating with cyber attacks on the West. As the public fear of attacks…
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The Democrats are Their Own Worst Enemy
The Democrats are performing an autopsy of their 2024 electoral failures, but without mentioning Biden, the Harris campaign, their alienation of certain…
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Minimum Wage
The minimum wage is harmful, racist, sexist, and completely unnecessary. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 22, 2025. Mises University…
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Competition and Monopoly
Competition is a relentless, dynamic process of entrepreneurship and discovery. Tom DiLorenzo exposes how antitrust laws, rooted in flawed theories of monopoly…
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The Austrian Theory of the Business Cycle
Paul Cwik unpacks Austrian Business Cycle Theory, explaining how artificial credit expansion triggers unsustainable booms and inevitable busts. He walks…
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Austrian Capital Theory
Patrick Newman introduces Austrian capital theory: how savings, time, and production structures drive economic growth. Without capital goods and roundabout…
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Secession Is Inevitable. War to Prevent It Is Optional
The answer lies not in doubling down on political unity, maintained through endless violence or threats of violence. Rather, the answer lies in peaceful…
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Calculation and Socialism
A modern socialist economy is impossible. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on July 22, 2025. Mises University is the world's leading…
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I, Mises University
Just as no one in the world could possibly make something as simple as a pencil all by himself, as the great Leonard Read explained in his famous essay, I…