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The French Far-Left Downplays Government Debt in Order to Spend Even More
Jean-Luc Mélenchon—the leader of the French far-left party “La France Insoumise”—says it's no problem that the French government's debt now tops more than 100%…
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Tracing Jefferson’s Libertarian Thought in the Declaration of Independence
Many largely accept Jefferson’s statements about rights, liberty, consent, criminality, and the role of government, however, many come short of adopting…
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Birthright Citizenship and the Supreme Court
Automatic citizenship for the children of foreign nationals on US soil will only further politicize immigration and increase calls for more limits on migrants…
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Patriotism Shouldn’t Apply to the Debauched Dollar
The dangers posed by a paper fiat currency were well-known even in the early days of the U.S. republic. Original article…
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Slavery Was Propped Up by Government: A Misesian Analysis
Bob walks through what Ludwig von Mises wrote about slavery in Human Action, arguing that the institution was not — as the 1619 Project claims — the foundation…
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Why History Refuses to Stay Planned
As technology and AI grow more sophisticated, people commonly believe that they also are eliminating uncertainty. Nothing could be further from the truth…
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Culture, the State, and the Problem of Liberty
The modern state has become not only the guardian of political order but also the architect of cultural identity. We must separate culture from the state…
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Surprise, Surprise. Government Capital Stock Is Deteriorating
Despite the eternal promises of members of Congress, government office space is rapidly deteriorating. Unfortunately, Congress has no plans to deal with the…
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The Birthright Citizenship Ruling Will Create More Conflict over Immigration
This decision—as with birthright citizenship in general—will increase political conflict over the presence of foreign nationals—both legal and illegal—within…
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A Backwards History of Money
Money did originate from the state, no matter how many times contemporary monetary theorists might claim otherwise. Original article…
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The Supreme Court and the Supreme Fed
With its new ruling in Trump v. Cook, the Supreme Court demonstrates it does not understand central banking or the Fed. Clarence Thomas, however, saw through…
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A Libertarian Critique of Birthright Citizenship
It is important to change our political culture, which treats "democracy," or the "right" to vote, as the supreme political good. Original article…
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Bitcoin Is Not Freedom: The Delusion of Digital Escape
While Bitcoin in its early days promised freedom from the tyranny of fiat currency, those days are gone. Instead, Bitcoin owners are now satisfied if its value…
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Why Bernie Sanders’s AI Bill Is Fascistic and Dangerous
Comparing Sanders to fascism may seem unusual, but it should not be forgotten that the main leaders of Italian fascism, including Mussolini, were initially…
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Calhoun’s Answer to the Abolition Petitions
What role does the Constitution play when one state has a different understanding of “American values” than another? Unfortunately, the responses have been…
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From 2008 to the Coming Reset: Larry Lepard's Case for Sound Money
Bob sits down with fund manager and author Lawrence Lepard to discuss his book The Big Print, which argues that the core problem with modern America is not…
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What Causes the Business Cycle?
Lew Rockwell takes on the deepest puzzle in economic theory: why booms and busts recur so regularly. He lays out the Austrian answer—credit expansion and…
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The State of Financial Markets Tells Us What Investors Really Believe
Mainstream economists claim that understanding and observing reality is not really “doing economics.” Instead, they believe that all we need are abstract…
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On July 4, Will You be Celebrating the Founders or the Status Quo?
On this July 4, Americans will celebrate 250 years of independence. However, what are people really celebrating, freedom or a militaristic regime? Original…
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Politics as Power: Elites, Inflation, and the Austrian Answer
Mark Thornton opens this episode of Minor Issues by tracing how politics shifted from the classical ideal of justice and community order into a Machiavellian…
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Hantavirus: Market versus Government Disease Control
Pandemics offer an alleged challenge to libertarians, as some argue that governments should have the power to order quarantines and impose vaccine…
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Conclusion
Rothbard’s summation: the Federal Reserve was a government-sanctioned cartel engineered by the Morgan, Rockefeller, and Kuhn, Loeb interests to enable…
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The Final Phase: Coping with the Democratic Ascendancy
With the Democrats ascendant under Wilson, the reformers repackage the Aldrich Plan as the ostensibly decentralized, government-supervised Federal…
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The Panic of 1907 and Mobilization for a Central Bank
The Panic of 1907 becomes the catalyst. Rothbard traces the response—the Aldrich-Vreeland Act and the Aldrich-led National Monetary Commission—as elites…
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Jacob Schiff Ignites the Drive for a Central Bank
Around 1906, Jacob Schiff of Kuhn, Loeb and his relative Paul Warburg launch the explicit campaign for a US central bank, rallying the American Bankers…
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Conant, Monetary Imperialism, and the Gold-Exchange Standard
The theory put into practice: imposing the gold-exchange standard on U.S. dependencies and client states—Puerto Rico, the Philippines, Mexico, and…
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Charles A. Conant, Surplus Capital, and Economic Imperialism
Enter Charles A. Conant, theorist of “surplus capital.” Rothbard shows how Conant’s claim that mature economies must export capital abroad linked banking…
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The Gold Standard Act of 1900 and After
The reformers’ first victory—the Gold Standard Act of 1900—and the maneuvering that followed, as Treasury secretaries Lyman Gage and Leslie Shaw used…
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The Beginnings of the “Reform” Movement: The Indianapolis Monetary Convention
The first organized big-business push for banking reform. Rothbard recounts how the 1896–97 Indianapolis Monetary Convention, backed by Morgan- and…
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Unhappiness with the National Banking System
Why the nation’s big banks grew dissatisfied with the post–Civil War National Banking System: an inflationary but rigid structure that lacked an “elastic…
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The Progressive Movement
Rothbard frames the 1913 Federal Reserve Act as part of the Progressive drive from laissez-faire toward centralized statism. Having failed to cartelize through…
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Greenspan: The Great Opportunist
While the pundits are insisting that the late Alan Greenspan was a committed free market adherent, his actions throughout his career spoke differently. In…
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The Myth of Nationalist Victory: The Articles of Confederation and the Bank of North America
Were stronger central government under the Articles of Confederation and a central bank really necessary to win the American Revolution, as conservative…
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Beware Tariffs! US-China Trade War is the Biggest Risk Now
Kevin Warsh's hawkishness is theater. Every Fed chair comes in tough. The Fed's real mandate is financing government debt and protecting banks. Everything else…
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The French Revolution and the War in the Vendée
Ryan McMaken looks at the little known (in America) secessionist war for self-determination fought by French counterrevolutionaries against the French Jacobins…
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On Little Bighorn Anniversary, Remember Custer’s Crimes
The famed "Custer's Last Stand" at the hands of Native Americans defending their villages is a reminder of the brutality of the US war against the Plains…
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The Death of Greenspan and Rise of Mamdanism
On this episode of Power & Market, Tho, Connor, and special guest Ryan Turnipseed pay tribute to the Maestro, consider whether Democratic Socialists are part…
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Intellectual Property versus the Unrealized
The common belief is that intellectual property rights must be in place, otherwise, entrepreneurs would be reluctant to face uncertain profitability. Well…
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Democratic Socialists: One Vote, One Time?
Democratic Socialists are winning election after election and will have a number of representatives in Congress. What will happen to our society as they…
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Greenspan Was The Perfect Fed Chair. That Is Not a Compliment
The Fed Chair’s job isn’t to stabilize the economy. It’s to use prestige, technical jargon, and mind-numbing dullness to cover for the central bank’s…
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How Greek Merchants and Philosophers Discovered Economics
Long before modern economics, the Greek philosophers were laying the groundwork for understanding human cooperation in a social setting, helping to give birth…
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Murray N. Rothbard: Toward a “Science of Liberty”
Murray N. Rothbard was a system builder in the mode of Ludwig von Mises, Frank H. Knight, and F. A. Hayek. Social, economic, and political problems are…
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From Scholasticism to Enlightenment Liberalism
The intellectual path from Ancient Greece to modernity is littered with the path of numerous philosophers, movements, and events, both peaceful and violent…
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The Medieval Constitution of Liberty
Ryan McMaken reviews a new book on the political institutions of the Middle Ages, The Medieval Constitution of Liberty: Political Foundations of Liberalism in…
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Lies, Damn Lies, and the History of Capitalism
Modern historians rarely have told the truth about the history of capitalism, and especially in the early days of the Industrial Revolution. It is time to set…
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Greenspan's Empty Talk
On the day Greenspan died, this 2001 essay by Joseph T. Salerno deserves a second life. It documented what the mainstream refused to see: that Greenspan…
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Alan Greenspan Dies at 100
Greenspan served as an especially important cog in this machine by increasing the Fed’s prerogatives within the global economy. Original article…
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The Sixth Republic?
As Ryan McMaken recently pointed out, the original constitutional republic created in 1787 no longer exists. Joseph Solis-Mullen asked if the US is now in its…
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Why You Shouldn't Trust the Bureaucrats
Progressive elites insist that we “trust our government” when they are in control, but why should we? In fact, we should no more trust government than Charlie…
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The Fed's Inflation Problem
Mises Editor-in-Chief Ryan McMaken explains how the new Fed chairman faces a political problem with rising prices and the fact the Fed keeps fueling the…
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The Fed’s New Face, Same Old Game
Mark Thornton examines Kevin Warsh’s first Fed meeting and argues that despite the tough rhetoric, nothing fundamental has changed. The Federal Reserve still…
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Why Stable Systems Fail: The Illusion of Institutional Control
Systems do not collapse when they finally become unstable; they appear stable until the moment their failure can no longer be ignored. Original article…
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Institutional Closure: Why Managed Directivism Breeds Its Own Collapse
As technology advances, progressives believe that this time, all of their social engineering and attempts to establish socialism will finally come to fruition…
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A Harvard Economist Tests Austrian Capital Theory
Bob sits down with Harvard Economics Professor Pol Antràs to discuss his new paper applying Böhm-Bawerk's average period of production to international trade…
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Marxism and the Manipulation of Man
In 1952, at the height of Soviet power, Ludwig von Mises stood in the San Francisco Public Library and systematically dismantled Marx—not just his economics…
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Why the US President Loves “Inflation”?
The president has declared that he loves inflation. What economic fallacies is he likely adopting that leads to this conclusion? Original article…
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China’s Industrial Policy: Ambition, Inefficiency, and a Cautionary Tale for America
While China’s economy has boomed, many people wrongly associate that success with the Chinese government’s industrial policies. Intervention has created many…
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The American Revolution and the Danger of Standing Armies
Among the key men involved in the American Revolution and the following periods, we find an oft-repeated concern that may seem foreign to us today—the threat…
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Oppose Graham Platner for His Socialism, Not Just His Outrageous Behavior
While Graham Platner has become controversial because of his reckless past and violent behavior, the real objection to his being elected a US Senator should be…
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The Warsh Era Begins
On this episode of Power and Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho discuss the first FOMC meeting under new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh. Out? Forward Guidance. In? Task…