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Distress in Commercial Real Estate Bonds Hits All-Time High
Commercial real estate in the US faces major problems despite efforts by the Federal Reserve System to prop it up. Bonds used to finance commercial real estate…
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Finding Shelter from Monetary Racketeers
We have reached this point: the government keepers of money do not even understand what money is or why inflation is harmful. To them, the real threat to the…
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Jamaica and the Failure of the Entrepreneurial State
As we see from Jamaica‘s experience, attempts by the government to be entrepreneurial misallocate resources, waste money, and achieve poor results. Original…
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The Economic and Social Consequences of Rent Control
Rent control always results in housing shortages and deteriorating housing stock. Governments and activists, unfortunately, never learn any lessons. Original…
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America’s Problem with Consumerism Is the Government’s Fault
The child-like obsession with buying stuff that American society is often criticized for around Christmas is a sought-after result of our government’s monetary…
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Cultural Marxism in America
On December 23, 2024, Wanjiru Njoya appeared on Focus Today with Perry Atkinson discusses the impact of cultural Marxism on America's understanding of history…
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The Christmas Truce of World War I
Never forget the Christmas truce of World War I, when troops refused to be pawns of empire for one blessed day. Original article: The Christmas Truce of World…
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The French Revolution
Will Americans slay our Leviathan government and restore the American dream? Or, will we fail, and continue to allow cronies, fat-cat politicians, and…
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Dr. Keith Smith: What Critics Miss About For-Profit Healthcare
Keith Smith, MD is an anesthesiologist and founder of the cash-price Surgery Center of Oklahoma. In the wake of the shooting of UnitedHealth CEO Brian…
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Digital Slavery and Playing with Fire: Money, Banking, and the Federal Reserve
On December 18, 2024, Tom DiLorenzo appeared on Business Game Changers with Sarah Westall to discuss the Federal Reserve and how it has caused never ending…
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Free Speech and Peace
On December 18, 2024, Wanjiru Njoya appeared on America At Night with Rich Valdés to discuss the importance of free speech in maintaining a peaceful…
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Is Russia a "Realist" Power?
On this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop are joined by Zachary Yost to discuss a new book, The Source of Russian Aggression by Sumantra…
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Caplan’s Errors on the UAE and Open Borders
Economist Bryan Caplan has held up the United Arab Emirates as an example of how open borders can be successful. Caplan clearly does not understand how…
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Destroying Creative Destruction: The DMA against Innovation
As Joseph Schumpeter noted, markets need “creative destruction” to survive and advance. However, Europe‘s Digital Market Act (DMA)—while written to ostensibly…
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Post-Election Prospects for Ending DEI
With the demise of the Biden administration, it is time to take a hard look at the DEI programs it imposed. While divisive, simple removal will not solve…
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Thanksgiving Day
The great free-market classical liberal William Leggett believed that Americans do not need politicians telling us on which days Americans ought to be…
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The American Addiction to Transfer Payments
Original article: The American Addiction to Transfer Payments
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The Relevance of the Natural Sciences Methods in Economics
Modern academic economics is based upon the methodologies used to study the natural sciences. However, such methodologies are inappropriate to study economics…
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Wealth and Income Inequality Are Essential for Social Cooperation
Murray Rothbard wrote that egalitarianism is a “revolt against nature.” Progressives claim that inequality harms society and is morally unacceptable, but in…
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“NAFTA Fever” and the Myth of Government-Created Free Markets
Critics of free markets claim that the 1980s and 90s were near-pure laissez-faire when, in reality, the regulatory state only got stronger. Original article…
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The Establishment’s “Principles” Are Fake
The Biden administration, and the political establishment more broadly, is scrambling to ram through policies that a majority of voters just voted against…
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Assumptions in Economics and in the Real World
Mainstream economists often base their analysis upon assumptions that do not square with reality. Austrian economics, on the other hand, is built upon…
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The Battle on Lake Geneva—Mises vs. the Statists at Mont Pelerin
The original Mont Pelerin Society meeting in 1947 featured Ludwig von Mises, whose warnings about the dangers of socialism and totalitarianism had gone…
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The Complex Legacy of George Orwell
While most of us know George Orwell as an authoritative critic of totalitarianism, few people know he was a committed socialist and a lifelong defender of…
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The Context Behind Donald Trump’s “Takeover” of the American Right
While it is often framed in the media as a battle between principled conservatives and an angry, non-ideological movement focused solely on personal loyalty to…
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The Corrupt Nature of DEI
Even though DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) has taken a beating in some state legislatures, it still has a corrupting influence, especially in higher…
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Totalitarianism Begins with a Denial of Economics
Totalitarianism is not compatible with a functioning economic system based upon free exchange and private property. Such regimes depend upon historicism and…
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Wanted: Critics of Austrian Economics
Austrian economics today needs critics. It doesn‘t need the critics (like Paul Krugman) who cannot give valid and accurate criticisms, but rather people who…
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Your Kids Are Already Communist, and College Will Make It Worse
Modern American culture is statist to the core. The typical school curriculum tells students that capitalism is evil and socialism is good. This only gets…
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Legalizing Drugs: How to Make America Great Again
Is the black-market economy immune to inflation? It would seem that the price of illegal pot has been declining or steady for several years while legal pot is…
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2025’s Federal Deficit May Be the Biggest Ever
If you thought federal deficits and spending would go back to normal after the covid panic, you were wrong. If anything, deficits are now on track to be bigger…
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What's More "Wicked" than the Crime of '73?
Using the heavily marketed movie "Wicked" as his news hook, Bob explains that the beloved Wizard of Oz movie involved an allegory of the bimetallism debates of…
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Why Politicians Love Tariffs
Mises Institute President Tom DiLorenzo joins Ryan McMaken to look at the many ways that the taxes, known as "tariffs," destroy wealth and empower the state…
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Progressivism and the Murder of a Health Insurance CEO
Progressives are openly cheering the murder of the CEO of UnitedHealthcare. However, it was progressive legislation that created this healthcare crisis in the…
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Contrived Scarcity and Antitrust Lawsuits—“It’s Not a Bag, It’s a Birkin”
Birkin bags are pricey and the producer restricts its potential buyers. Unfortunately, disgruntled customers who don’t want to follow the company’s rules are…
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Discrimination and Opportunities for Women
Wage differences between men and women often are automatically attributed to sex discrimination against women. However, as research has shown time and again…
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Entrepreneurial Profit Follows Good Decisions, Not Exploitation
Employing the Labor Theory of Value, Marx claimed that entrepreneurial profits arise from exploitation of workers. In reality, entrepreneurs earn profits when…
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Historical Revisionism: What It Is and What It Is Not
Historical revisionism is nothing new, and recent attempts to label an “antiracist” approach to history have wrongly been called “revisionist.” To better…
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How the Government Created Exorbitant Insulin Prices
Progressives blame the free market for insulin prices and want to impose price controls. But, government regulation is to blame. Original article: How the…
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Sound Money Movement Chalks Up Seven State Legislative Victories in 2024
Not all news from the gold and monetary fronts is bad. In fact, gold made a number of advancements in seven states, including exemptions from taxes and…
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The Limits to Public Opinion and the Failure of Democracy
The watchword among progressives this election season is: “Nothing less than our democracy is at stake.” In truth, democracy itself is not in danger, but one…
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What Is Consent?
Buchanan and Tullock‘s The Calculus of Consent influentially applies economic ideas to politics, focusing on methodological individual. However, there are a…
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David Glasner on the Sraffa-Hayek Debate
David Glasner is a UCLA-trained economist specializing in monetary theory and the history of economic thought. He has disagreed in print with Murphy's take on…
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Fiscal Folly
Mark Thornton discusses why increased government spending not only explains ongoing wayward increases in the GDP, employment, and stock price numbers, but also…
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Trump Faces a Mess of an Economy
Interest rates, inflation, home prices, and federal spending all pose big challenges to a Trump administration that is ill-prepared to deal with the…
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The FBI Has Been Political from the Start
The Washington political establishment is alarmed that President-elect Trump wants to appoint Kash Patel as FBI director, claiming that Trump’s choice will…
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A Brief History of Tariffs and Stock Market Crises
Tariffs don‘t just raise consumer prices. They also affect capital flows and, on numerous occasions, have triggered stock market crises. What tariffs don‘t…
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Does the Fed’s Lowering the Interest Rates Strengthen Economic Growth?
The Fed lowers interest rates ostensibly to “stimulate” the economy. But while the Fed claims it is strengthening the economy, it actually weakens it through…
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Lessons from Reconstruction
Using state power to enforce social orthodoxy is always a recipe for disaster. Radical Republican governments in the post-war South attempted to do just that…
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Markets Made of Glass—How the Fed Destroyed Economic Resilience
For nearly 30 years, the Fed has pursued an easy-money policy that has made the economy increasingly dependent upon the next round of “stimulus.” Reversing…
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Slavery and Collective Guilt
Modern progressives are obsessed with collective guilt, demanding that Americans pay reparations for slavery even though it ended in the US 160 years ago…
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The Economics of Prepping
While people who “prep” for disaster (called preppers) are ridiculed by political elites and their media, their actions are perfectly rational. In this…
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The Indian Rope Trick
The political theorist Anthony de Jasay takes on the left‘s ideas of equality, and David Gordon is there to agree—and disagree. Jasay likens the left‘s view of…
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“Victory Plan” or Deadly Delusion? Zelensky’s Perilous Five-Point Plan
The darling of America‘s political elites, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, now touts a “Five-Point Plan” that surely will extend the war and ultimately…
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The Cultural Background of Ludwig von Mises
Originally published in the Mises Institute's Studies in Classical Liberalism series in 1999. The text of this essay is available at…
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Don’t Knock Nock
Contrary to anti-freedom myths, "greedy" business owners don't decide what prices will be for goods and services. Original article: Don’t Knock Nock
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How Intellectual Property Laws Stifle Innovation
Supporters of intellectual property laws claim that people will not innovate unless they are protected by such legislation. In reality, people are more likely…
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Nine Months of Javier Milei as President of Argentina: A Critical Assessment
Capitalism is characterized by the private ownership of capital, coming from Lockean homesteading principles, and not from state coercion and force. Original…
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The Establishment Media Is Unaware of Its Growing Irrelevance
The outcry from establishment media figures following the decision by the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times to not endorse a presidential candidate shows…
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The Political Theology That Maintains State Power
While it is tempting to think of state power as being maintained by sheer force, it still needs a “theological” justification, be it secular or religious. The…