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Preserving Capital through Bankruptcy
While bankruptcy has a negative connotation in the business world, “Bankruptcy fulfills the crucially important social function of preserving the available…
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WaPo Editors: "Liberty" Requires Us to Implement Vaccine Passports
Governments are seeking to mandate vaccine usage in a variety of ways, even while vaccine producers are shielded from full legal accountability should their…
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Remember When Conservatives "Canceled" Anyone against the War on Terror? I Do.
Life in American changed twenty years ago after the 9/11 attacks. Many Americans became enraged at anyone who did not swear allegiance to Bush’s antiterrorism…
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China’s Military Strength Has Been Greatly Exaggerated
China is a rapidly aging, inefficient, conflict-ridden, and relatively poor country that simply is not on the road to seriously challenging the US’s hegemony…
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Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim
Having branched to our first novel with All Quiet on the Western Front, the Human Action Podcast begs your indulgence for one of the works of 20th century…
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Some Conservatives Still Pine for the Good Ol' Days of Cannabis Prohibition
The federal government, along with pharmaceutical, alcohol, and tobacco companies have spent money trying to put the legalization genie back in the prohibition…
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An End to the Bizarre CDC Rent Moratorium
Many landlords just received a crash course about how irrelevant their property rights are in Washington. Original Article: "An End to the Bizarre CDC Rent…
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British Columbia’s Supreme Court Gets an F in Healthcare Economics
Canadian hospitals operate under fixed budgets dictated by the government. When this tax revenue is depleted before the end of the year, as often happens, new…
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Macroeconomic Data Is a Tool for Government Intervention
In a free, unhampered market, businesspersons in the pursuance of their goals will not require macroeconomic indicators. Entrepreneurs require an entirely…
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Don't Be Fooled by the Fed's Taper Talk
There won't be a taper tantrum if the Fed seriously moves toward tapering. Investors now understand how the game works. Tapering doesn't actually mean the end…
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Where Prices Come From: Menger Explains
Because people strive to improve their condition, they exchange goods and, in this sense, they create the necessary conditions for the emergence of prices…
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Happy Hour May Be Getting a Little Happier
Eleven states ban happy hour. These laws restrict the sale of alcohol at discounted prices during specially designated times. Unfortunately, many citizens…
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Lithuania's Crackdown on the Unvaccinated
Many Lithuanian politicians are embracing outright segregation of unvaccinated Lithuanians. Fortunately, many Lithuanians are resisting. This fight is not…
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Beer: A Short and Bitter History of Regulation
Some think that beer's history of regulation begins with hops, but beer has been hemmed in by government red tape for much longer. Original Article: "Beer: A…
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Bretton Woods and the Spoliation of Europe
Gold was only included in the plans for the Bretton Woods system because of the veneer of solidity it gave. Original Article: "Bretton Woods and the Spoliation…
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The End of the Gold Standard. Fifty Years of Monetary Insanity
The gold standard supposed a limit to the fiscal voracity of governments, and suspending it unleashed the perverse proclivity of the states toward indebtedness…
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How Nixon and FDR Used "Crises" to Destroy the Dollar's Links to Gold
In 1971, Nixon used a fiscal crisis to justify severing the dollar's last connection to gold. It was the same old story: "we must vastly expand government…
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Mark Spitznagel's Safe Haven
Fans of Austrian economics know hedge fund manager Mark Spitznagel as a brilliant thinker thoroughly steeped in Menger, Böhm-Bawerk, Mises, and Rothbard. His…
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The "Nixon Shock" Was Only the Final Nail in the Coffin of the Gold Dollar
Bob gives a brief history of money in the United States, explaining that the dollar was much “harder” in, say, 1810 than it was in 1910. This explains why…
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The Great Keynesian Coup of August 1971: Fifty Years Later
The collapse of the monetary order in 1971 reflected the massive dislocations and malinvestment of resources that ultimately turned the decade into one crisis…
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Egypt's Bread Subsidies May Bring Millions to the Brink of Starvation
Most Egyptians have lived their whole lives in a country where the government heavily subsidizes bread prices. But now the deeply indebted Egyptian state faces…
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Paranoia about American Weakness Rests on a Flawed Understanding of History
Victor Davis Hanson's cartoonish conception of how foreign states act is not supported by history and contributes to the US government’s insane defense…
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The Secret Ronald Reagan Told Me about Gold and Great Nations
Fifty years after Nixon closed the gold window, prices are heading toward 1970s-era increases. Yet the Fed cannot increase interest rates as long as the…
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Two Percent Inflation Is a Lot Worse Than You Think
Even at a "mere" two-percent level, cumulative price increases over time are nothing to scoff at. Even worse, if we look at what people really spend money on…
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The Covid Silver Lining
After more than a year of unprecedented state intervention in our private lives, have Americans accepted a grim "new normal"? Recorded in Colorado Springs on…
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The Demise of the Gold Standard
Nixon’s closing the gold window should be seen as the end of the last remnant of the gold standard, not some kind of market failure. Governments controlled…
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The Technocracy’s New New Deal
Was Covid merely the excuse to justify new police powers under the guise of public health—powers politicians will use to impose draconian controls in the…
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When Politicians Panicked: The New Coronavirus, Expert Opinion, and a Tragic Lapse of Reason
John Tamny chronicles the profound ignorance and malfeasance of policymakers at all levels during 2020. Does the varied response to the virus, across nations…
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How Nixon and the Rockefellers Teamed Up to Destroy the Dollar
In 1971, David Rockefeller favored a “new international monetary system with greater flexibility” and “less reliance on gold.” Seeing an opportunity to expand…
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The Pentagon and the Generals Wanted This Disastrous War
It's not just the civilian politicians. For twenty years, the military itself pressed for more war, endlessly claiming that victory was right around the…
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Kabul's Collapse and DC's Incurable Arrogance
There is no reason to expect the Afghanistan debacle to humble Washington policymakers. Korean War fiascos were swept under the rug, paving the way for the…
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Welfare Payments and Foreign Policy Fears Are the Only Things Holding America Together
Fear of China and Iran, combined with the more practical desire for continued “free” money from the federal government, will continue to fuel opposition to any…
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Pandemics, Infection, and Libertarianism
When we think in terms of the foundational law of property, it's clear that broad charges of aggression through infection are spurious at best. Original…
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The Crime of '71: When Nixon Ended the Dollar's Last Connection to Gold
Nixon's decision to end the gold redeemability of the greenback was probably the most comprehensive act of monetary expropriation of modern times. Original…
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Cuba: The Dictatorship and the "Blockade" Lie
All the propaganda that whitewashes the Cuban dictatorship is based on two lies: the nonexistent “blockade” and the allegedly excellent “public health.”…
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Eco-imperialism: The West's New Kind of Colonialism
Western intellectuals are trying to tear down symbols of traditional colonialism. Yet the West still continues a form a colonialism in Africa: eco-imperialism…
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Private Investment Is the Answer to Declining Postindustrial Towns
Many people want the state to take the lead in revitalizing run-down towns. How does this make sense, when it is private industry that conceived these towns in…
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Unmasking the Latest Bipartisan (and Dangerous) Climate Bill
Republicans put a free market happy face on the latest environmentalist policy prescriptions in DC, but that does not change the fact that centrally planned…
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Covid Tyranny Destroys the Myth of "Liberal Democracy"
It wasn’t "fascism" or "Russia" that normalized lockdowns, mandates, and massive whirlwind profits to politically connected cronies in the West—it was the…
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End the Shutdown, Again
If every new virus or variation warrants shutdowns or new vaccines, we will face an unending dystopian hellscape of state intervention in our medical…
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Government "Stimulus" Keeps Having a Diminishing Effect
We should be extremely concerned about the short and diminishing impact of monster stimulus plans. Original Article: "Government "Stimulus" Keeps Having a…
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Using Goods vs. Exchanging Them: Menger Explains the Difference
In a developed economy, the satisfaction of desires can be obtained not only by goods in use, but also by goods in exchange. Original Article: "Using Goods vs…
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Jeff Deist hosts a solo show to discuss one of his favorite novels from childhood, All Quiet on the Western Front. Its young protagonist Paul Bäumer, barely…
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Jan Tinbergen, Pioneer of Central Planning
Every time something good seemed to emerge from Tinbergen’s work, he seems to have managed to twist it in an awful direction. Original Article: "Jan Tinbergen…
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Revitalizing a Town Takes a Lot More Than Fixing Up a Few Buildings for a TV Show
Creating a functioning and sustainable local economy is much more time consuming and complicated than sprucing up a few buildings to look good on a TV show…
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The Seen and the Unseen of Government R&D
While it’s easy to fixate on the handful of success stories, the litany of government innovation failures should be enough to sober up even the most…
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China Won't Be Taking Over the World
Faced with countless demographic, economic, and strategic problems, China is more likely to collapse than take over the world. Original Article: "China Won't…
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It’s Time to Abolish the Capital Gains Tax
The capital gains tax cuts off start-ups and smaller entrepreneurs from access to flows of capital. The tax makes society more wasteful, less innovative, and…
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M. Night Shyamalan Is Giving You Permission to Be a Superhero
Bob reviews the "Unbreakable" movie trilogy, arguing that M. Night Shyamalan knows we need to awaken the superheroes among us. They might not even know who…
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What Is Modern Monetary Theory?
In this lecture from 2021's Mises University, Lucas Engelhardt summarizes the basics of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), its consequences, and the strange…
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Forced Vaccinations in France Bring Both Repression and Protest
Macron says vaccines are not compulsory for the general public for now, but they are essentially required for anyone who wants to live a normal life. Original…
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Getting to Galt's Gulch: Everyday Secession
For the libertarian, the way forward is not joining in left-right political boxing matches, but secession. The success of libertarianism is independence from…
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Bidenomics
From climate policy to stimulus to unemployment, Prof. Murphy takes a detailed look at the many practical and theoretical problems of Joe Biden's economic…
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Bob Murphy Critiques Curtis Yarvin's Explanation of Inflation
In a May 2021 essay, Curtis Yarvin (aka Mencius Moldbug) argues that the American economy runs on an inflation machine. Yarvin claims that the best way to…
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Canada's Wait Times for Healthcare Are Huge. Activists Blame Free Markets.
Canada's "private" long-term care homes are anything but private. But the fact a small sliver of the marketplace is allowed to charge fees for services means…
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Why Are Thieves Stealing So Many Catalytic Converters?
US car owners are being preyed upon by thieves, because South African mine owners are being preyed upon by their government. Original Article: "Why Are Thieves…
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"They Said What?!" John Lennon edition
Bob unveils a new recurring series, in which he gives the context of infamous quotations. In this episode, he covers two allegedly shocking quotes from John…
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How Botswana Became the World's Fastest-Growing Economy
The risk of government expropriation of private property remained low, and Botswana rejected antiwhite reformist politics which destroyed capital in many other…
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Per Bylund on the Importance of the Austrian School
Per Bylund is Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship at Oklahoma State University. He discusses three of his current book projects, all touching on various…
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Sticks, Not Carrots: Vaccines Must Be Forced, Says Indiana University Health Chief
An Indiana University health officer laments that incentives such as access to events, donuts, french fries, and even hard cash are no longer moving many…