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IRAN: Everything You Need To Know But Were Too Afraid of the Israel Lobby To Ask
Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/iran-everything-you-need-know-were-too-afraid-israel-lobby-ask
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The Fallacy of “Measuring” Inflation
While we often speak of measurements of inflation (such as "inflation went up by three percent"), in reality, one cannot accurately measure it, given official…
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The Texas Floods and Political Opportunism
As the Texas floodwaters receded, politicians like Chuck Schumer twisted facts about the tragedy to score a political win. Examining what went wrong to prevent…
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The Homeownership Rate Is Lower Now than it Was 45 Years Ago
Now is the time to admit that easy-money policy and corporate bailouts—imposed in the name of increasing homeownership—has only made housing more unaffordable…
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Riots Are a Symptom of the Statist Disease
President Trump cracked down on the latest version of the LA riots by calling in the National Guard. However, much of the violence that accompanied those riots…
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Political Machine Rolls on Regardless
Don‘t kid ourselves. The federal government is hurtling toward disaster with its destructive activities underwritten by the Federal Reserve System. It‘s best…
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What If We Were on a Gold Standard?
Twentieth and twenty-first century monetary history shows us how our government, step-by-step, removed the monetary gold standard and introduced their fiat…
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The Mythology of Methodological Collectivism
A central belief of collectivists is that people think collectively, too. Whether one is a member of a class, religious group, or ethnic group, collectivism…
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Essays in Austrian Economics: Honoring Joe Salerno
This week, Bob talks with economist and Mises Institute research fellow, David Howden, co-editor of The Next Generation of Austrian Economics: Essays in Honor…
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Tariffs Destroy Consumer Choice
Although President Trump has claimed that tariffs will ultimately raise our standard of living, they really are taxes on consumers. Furthermore, tariffs also…
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The Futility of Price Stability Policies
Monetarists have long believed that the Fed should pursue policies of low inflation in order to counter the effects of lower prices through enhanced…
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Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal: A Controversial Reality
Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/israels-nuclear-arsenal-controversial-reality
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Rights, Fights, and the Economy of Self-Defense: Why MMA Facilitates the Right to Self-Defense
Mixed martial arts is a brutal, imperfect, occasionally ugly sport. But it’s also one of the most honest epistemic systems we have when dealing with…
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An Excellent Casey for Anarchism
Has anyone besides Murray Rothbard made a compelling case for state-free anarchy? In this week‘s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon extols Libertarian Anarchy…
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Who Really Invented Bitcoin?
In this episode of Minor Issues, Mark Thornton revisits a prophetic 1970s address by Nobel laureate F.A. Hayek that laid the intellectual groundwork for…
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Methodological Individualism in Historical Analysis
Modern historians depend heavily upon sweeping narratives and their take on the US War of Secession is no exception. Yet, the use of methodological…
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Privacy and Fungibility: The Forgotten Virtues of Sound Money
Governments have so corrupted money that we forget that sound money, by providing both fungibility and privacy, has been a defense against overreaching…
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Leo XIV and Rerum Novarum
When Cardinal Robert Prevost was named Pope, he took the name of Pope Leo XIV. Leo XIII authored Rerum Novarum, which is the basis for Catholic social teaching…
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The American Revolution Was a Free-Trade Revolution
The British complained of unfair competition from goods supplied by the American colonists. So the state intervened to manage trade and make it “fair.” But the…
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Return to First Principles to End Wars in the Middle East
Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/return-first-principles-end-wars-middle-east
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American Independence and the Seeds of Big Government
When the American Revolution broke out, the American colonies were perhaps the least-taxed place on earth. How did this country move from that position to the…
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The 1775 Two Step That Led to American Independence
Regardless of Oval Office revisionism, Americans should never forget that their nation was forged in resistance to political slavery and claims by distant…
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The Spirit of the Declaration of Independence: Secession, Division, Disloyalty
The Declaration of Independence is about radical opposition to state power. The Declaration takes a stand against political vices like unity, loyalty, and…
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The Federal Reserve Is Covering Up Its Financial Losses
Alex Pollock, an expert on Federal Reserve policy, joins us to talk about how the Fed has backed itself into a very bad financial corner, and there is no…
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Half of June's Job Growth Was in Government. Manufacturing Jobs Fall.
June's job growth was hailed in the media as proof of a strong economy. Except there's a problem: fully half of these new jobs were government jobs. Original…
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Was the American Revolution Radical?
The American Revolution wasn’t a polite disagreement with Britain. It was a people-powered upheaval that shattered empires, inspired global revolutions, and…
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Emphasizing the Mirage, Downplaying the Reality
As housing prices have skyrocketed in Ireland, the government did what governments do all too often: impose rent controls. Such interventions into the housing…
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The Labour Party Is Undermining the British Economy
Britain‘s Labour Party won an overwhelming victory at the last election, and Prime Minister Keir Starmer has already following the script of Labour when it was…
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Why The Phrase "The Jewish State" Is Propaganda
Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/why-phrase-jewish-state-propaganda
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Iran's Central Planning Policies Harm Its Economy
Central planning thwarts Iran’s economy. Many Iranian government officials blame their nation’s economic demise on Western countries sanctions and not their…
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After 50 Years of US-Government-Sponsored Housing Finance: Why Are Houses So Unaffordable?
After more than fifty years of U.S. government-sponsored housing finance, Why has home ownership not increased and why are houses unaffordable? Original…
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A Half-Century after New York City’s Fiscal Collapse, the City’s Politicians Have Learned Nothing
Voters in last week‘s Democratic Primary in New York City had to choose between a socialist and a crony capitalist. They chose the socialist. Fifty years ago…
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Establishment Democrats Created the Conditions for A Socialist Victory
The democratic establishment is upset that socialist Zohran Mamdani beat their candidate, Andrew Cuomo, in New York City’s mayoral primary. But the blame for…
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Republicans and Big Government
Contrary to popular myth, every Republican president since and including Herbert Hoover has increased the federal government's size, scope, or power. Over the…
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A Big Beautiful Bill for the Military-Industrial Complex
The Republican insistence on increasing military spending is the main reason Congress cannot cut taxes without increasing the debt, making cuts in domestic…
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The American Revolution Was a Culture War
The Boston Tea Party was an opening act in what came to be a violent culture war and war of national liberation. And it helps us understand how America in 2020…
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Trump’s Strike Against Iran: Weapons of Mass Overreach
Another president, another “strike for peace.” Trump’s assault on Iran wasn’t about safety. It was another step in the long tradition of unchecked executive…
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A Free Market Would Preclude Today’s Headlines
Our media, higher education, and, of course, governments tell us that our social and economic problems are due to capitalism. Yet, what we see are governments…
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The Economics of Nuclear Weapons
The fact remains that the strategic value of nuclear arms lies almost totally on the side of defense. Original article…
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Methodological Individualism in Historical Analysis
To better understand history, we must understand how people thought and acted in the context of their times and the prevailing worldviews of that era…
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Will New York City Become the New Socialist Paradise?
Socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has emerged as a serious challenger to Andrew Cuomo in the race for mayor of New York City. If Mamdani wins, he…
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Silent Cal Had a Lot to Say
His policies took more than a million people off the income tax rolls, and 98 percent of Americans paid no income tax at the end of his term. As a result…
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Critics of Capitalism Misunderstand Economic Success
In a free society, legitimate economic success does not fall from the sky or come by force. Behind every fortune lies effort, risk, savings, time, discovery…
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How Government Ruins 4th of July Travel
If we were to claim independence from the modern-day royalty of the beltway, the markets will ensure better holidays in the future. Original article…
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Unemployment Claims Reach the Highest Since 2018 (Ex Covid)
With the exception of the "covid panic" and the mandated lockdowns, etc., last week was the highest total for ongoing unemployment claims since early 2018…
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The Young Rothbard: An Uncomfortable Neoclassical Economist
Speaking at the recent Rothbard Graduate Seminar, Dr. Joseph Salerno traces Murray Rothbard‘s intellectual development while in the economics Ph.D. program at…
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SCOTUS Strikes a Blow against Public School Indoctrination of Young Children
The Supreme Court has told Maryland parents their children do not have to sit through militant LGBTQ+ indoctrination classes, violating their religious values…
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Steve Hanke on Hyperinflation, Currency Boards, and the COVID Lockdown Debacle
Bob hosts Steve Hanke, Distinguished Senior Scholar at the Mises Institute and Professor of Applied Economics at Johns Hopkins University, to discuss his…
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A New Online Resource: Libertarian Literary and Media Criticism
The site can also host blogs and announcements related to Austrian economics and libertarianism in the humanities. Original article…
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Why Recessions Are Not about Declining GDP
A recession is defined by negative economic activity over several months with an accompanying decline in GDP. However, given the actual makeup of GDP, it is…
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The Entrepreneur and the Summer Blockbuster
This summer, Hollywood is celebrating the 50th anniversary of its summer blockbuster “Jaws.” The making of such films provides a good analysis of how…
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Mexico’s Energy Sector Goes Backward
The government argues that restoring state control protects Mexico’s resources from foreign exploitation and ensures that profits benefit Mexican citizens…
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Two Sixties Rock Songs That Celebrate Capitalism’s Greatest Creation
For millennia prior to the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, the vast majority of men, women, and children toiled from dusk to dawn and beyond just to keep…
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Review of Greatness and Ruin by Ricardo Duchesne
Western Civilization has brought great advances in culture and economics, yet no one is more relentless in trying to destroy this civilization than western…
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President Trump: End the War Now!
Unfortunately, President Trump has severely damaged his credibility by embroiling us in a war that is not our war. Original article…
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Political Moralizing about the History of Slavery
Historically, slavery has always been held together by violence, including slavery in the US. However, the actual history of slavery here is much more complex…
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The War They Promised Not to Start
In this episode of Minor Issues, Mark Thornton features his recent appearance on the Liberty and Finance podcast. Mark pulls back the curtain on the…
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Fumes of a Failed System: Bolivia’s Gasoline Crisis
Bolivians are finding out the hard way that socialist energy means price controls, and price controls mean fuel shortages and long gas station lines. Socialism…
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President Trump’s Interventionism
Regardless of your view of the current conflicts, one fact is indisputable. President Trump’s actions violate our traditional non-interventionist foreign…
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What the Modern Luddites Miss: Technology Makes Us Wealthier
Contrary to the expectation of the Luddites, we have only become wealthier than before and workers today enjoy much higher standards of living than workers in…