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Lockdowns Destroy What Makes Us Human
Government planners have embraced a materialistic view of human beings which cheapens the importance of family and social events. These "experts" fail to…
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The Right to Own a Gun Isn't Just for Americans
Private firearms ownership decentralizes coercive power, transferring some of it from the state to the private individual. Naturally, political regimes oppose…
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What the Covid Vaccine Hype Fails to Mention
If there were a reduction in mortality from these vaccines, that information would be in the first paragraph of the announcement. But it's not there, which…
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2021 Would Be a Great Time to Audit the Fed
In spite of its relentless public relations efforts claiming the opposite, the Fed remains a leading reason for the impoverishment of working-class and…
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Debunking Seven Common Criticisms of Austrian Economics
If people want to dismiss this school of thought, which many seem inclined to do for political (not theoretical) reasons, at least they should do so based on…
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Giving Thanks to Society’s Economic Benefactors
As Thanksgiving approaches, we should be thankful to society’s economic benefactors rather than condemning them because of the wrongheaded ideology of…
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Being Pro-union Means Being Antiworker
The problem with Biden’s Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act is that it would help unions at the expense of the vast majority of American workers…
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Election 2020: Rout of the Technocracy
This victory is not of one candidate or party over another in this race or that, but rather a resounding ideological defeat of one of the most illiberal and…
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Pandemics Are Over When the Public Decides They're Over
Government bureaucrats have their own standards for declaring when a pandemic has "officially" ended. But the de facto ending comes when the public stops…
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The Origins of American Vote Fraud
As notorious as the Democrat political machines are, the origins of vote fraud in America lie in the party of Lincoln. Original Article: "The Origins of…
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MMT Explained with Dr. Robert Murphy
Do we fund government or does government fund us? Can sovereign states issue currency at will without risk of default? Are government deficits actually a form…
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The Dystopian "Fourth Industrial Revolution" Will Be Very Different from the First One
Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum has big plans for a "sustainable" future. Most of it involves the destruction of markets and basic human rights…
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The Evil of American Exceptionalism
According to Anne Applebaum, those who deny American “exceptionalism,” that is to say, global crusading for “democracy,” are dangerous extremists. Original…
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The United Nations and the Origins of "The Great Reset"
The United Nations has been the key institution in setting the stage for a global "Great Reset" devoted to global management of human society and of markets…
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A Drop in the Money Supply Was Not the Cause of the Great Depression
Even if the central bank were to be successful in preventing the fall of the money stock, this would not be able to prevent a depression if the pool of real…
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The Covid Cult
This is the greatest public health fiasco in the history of the world, and the media has distorted it so badly, that much of the general public is celebrating…
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The Ron Paul Liberty Report, Live in Lack Jackon, Texas
Presented at the Symposium with Ron Paul on Saturday, 7 November 2020, in Angleton, Texas.
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Why We Need a Free Market in Money
A free market in money means real freedom to choose what money we use. This may mean people turn to gold and silver. Or they may turn to crypto. What's…
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California's Tax-Limiting Prop. 13 Survives Yet Another Attack
Prop. 15’s attempt to undermine California Prop. 13’s property tax protections for businesses has apparently failed. Original Article: "California's…
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The Fight for Freedom Needs Both Scholars and Political Activists
Murray Rothbard was enthusiastic about fighting for laissez-faire and freedom through both scholarship and political activism. He wasn't afraid to push freedom…
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Both Theory and Praxis: Rothbard's Plan for Laissez-Faire Activism
It should be self-evident that a just and moral political regime can only exist in the long term if a sufficiently large number of people actually believe in…
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The US Savings Bond Scam
Remember savings bonds? They were popular before the central bank made sure that safe, low-interest investments became a thing of the past. Original Article…
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Why Is the Fed So Afraid of Judy Shelton?
A single vote on the Fed's policymaking committees wouldn't make any real difference. On the other hand, the Fed will brook no dissent from the official media…
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Talk of "Unity" Is Both Hypocritical and Delusional
Grand invocations that "I will unify us" are actually shorthand for "We mean to get our way, regardless of others' well-being and desire." Original Article…
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Japan's Ultraloose Monetary Policy Has Undermined Savings and Prosperity
The Japanese experience offers valuable lessons for the US and Europe. A loose monetary policy can stabilize a recession for the short term, but a persistent…
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Want to Reduce the Trade Deficit? Cut Government Spending.
A trade deficit isn't actual evidence that anything is wrong. But if it were, one of the best things to do would be to reduce government spending…
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Election 2020: Choking on the Political Red and Blue Pills
Election 2020 is the same as every other election, only the state’s mask of legitimacy is slipping. Original Article: "Election 2020: Choking on the Political…
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Stop Confusing Money with Wealth
Useful goods and services, and the productive resources needed to create useful goods and services, are wealth. Money is not wealth, and creating more money…
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Why the Free Market Liberals Underestimated the Socialists
The masses only choose between the ideologies developed by the intellectual leaders of mankind. But the masses' choice is final and determines the course of…
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Do Elections Matter?
Let us continue to preach the truth of Liberty. Ideas have consequences, and unless we spread the ideas of freedom and free markets first, no election or…
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Down with Political Polling. Up with Prediction Markets.
Pollsters, many of whom predicted an overwhelming "blue wave," obviously failed miserably as reliable gauges of political sentiment. But prediction markets may…
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In Praise of the Cynical Voter
The cynical voter casts a vote with the belief that it might improve his situation, or at least throw some obstacles in front of a regime that is bent on…
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An America with Two Presidents
All signs indicate that Joe Biden will be inaugurated on January 20, but he will never be the legitimate president to a large portion of the American public…
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Here’s What Donald Trump Should Do Before Inauguration Day
Even if he loses, Donald Trump still has time to change military policy, pardon allies, unseat the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, and throw a wrench in…
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How the Left Uses "Science" To Extend Its Bias In Media and Academia
The 2020 election results will be a test of earlier liberal/progressive “investments” in modifying how Americans think about things. But at this point, perhaps…
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A Brief History of Nonwhite Slave Owners in America
Romanticizing the history of nonwhites to portray them as saints is dehumanizing. Original Article: "A Brief History of Nonwhite Slave Owners in America". This…
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How Russiagate Ruined Everything
All of a sudden the tweets are gone, the Facebook is gone, the media is gone. Only crazy people are questioning the most pristine — the most perfect — election…
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Our National Psychosis
Presented at the Symposium with Ron Paul on Saturday, 7 November 2020, in Angleton, Texas. In a country of 330 million people, the idea that democracy produces…
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Panel: Election Postmortem
A panel featuring Jeff Deist, Daniel McAdams, and Tom Woods. Presented at the Symposium with Ron Paul on Saturday, 7 November 2020, in Angleton, Texas.
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The Google Election
Whether Trump or not-Trump is finally declared the winner of the 2020 US presidential election, we're in for the battle of our lives. A constellation of state…
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John Rawls's Theories Help Refute John Rawls's Theories
Rawls’s doubts about global justice make him an effective critic of his own theory of justice. Original Article: "John Rawls's Theories Help Refute John…
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Lockdowners and "the Desire to Dominate"
Bizarrely, people from Paul Krugman to Tyler Cowen seems to think that libertarians rule the world and that everything that has gone wrong is libertarians’…
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Tho Bishop on Election Fallout
What do the trends in the ballot counting suggest? Will the election end up in the courts? Tho Bishop joins A Neighbor's Choice to analyze the controversy…
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How I Survived Travel to a "Democracy" Where I Had No Vote
If democracy is so fundamental, shouldn’t we all have a vote in every place we set foot, from Sunbury, Alaska, to Monaco? Original Article: "How I Survived…
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Massachusetts Is Back with More "Right to Repair" Nonsense
The new "right to repair" measure on the ballot in Massachusetts has very little to do with rights, and a lot to do with new costly and bureaucratic mandates…
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The Election Was a Tie. Now What?
The winner doesn’t represent “the nation.” There is no consensus. We’re not coming together “as a people.” These tired slogans should now strike every…
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The Fed's Balance Sheet May Be Headed to $40–$50 Trillion
If the current thinking continues, the world’s central banks will buy whatever paper governments issue. The result by the end of the decade will be a Federal…
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What Will It Take for Americans to Consider Breaking Up?
Things don't have to be this way. Original Article: "What Will It Take for Americans to Consider Breaking Up?". This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored…
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Election 2020: A Cynical First Look at the Results
The votes still aren't counted, but when it's all over, we'll still be in a country at war with itself over which half of the country gets to boss around the…
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The Idea that Democracy Is the Same as Liberty Is a Weapon in the Hands of Despots
Probably no other belief is now so much a threat to liberty… as the one that democracy, by itself alone, guarantees liberty. This Audio Mises Wire is…
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Why Threats of Election Violence May Be Here to Stay
A repeated pattern of close elections accompanied by threats of violence (or actual violence) is a sign that something is wrong with a nation's political…
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Close Elections Force Us to Ask Unpleasant Questions about Democracy
A very close or contested election would remind us that elections do not demonstrate "the will of the people" and that national unity is founded on some very…
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The Benefits of Secession Are Becoming Increasingly Obvious
"Countries threaten to split apart when their people seem hopelessly divided…. We’re less united today than we’ve been at any time since the Civil War." This…
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Three States Libertarian Voters May Decide
While the libertarian electorate is not as popular a topic as it once was, it could actually be a very important demographic this year. Original Article…
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Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem Exposes a Big Problem with Democracy
Kenneth Arrow showed in 1951 that the entire project of social choice theory rested on quicksand. This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher…
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Jeff Deist on Hoppe's Democracy: The God That Failed
Why don't elections bring harmony and closure rather than ever greater political friction? Hans-Hermann Hoppe explained all of the fundamental problems with…
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Preelection Survey: What Is This Election About?
We asked several Mises Institute scholars and writers to come together to discuss the themes running through the 2020 election race and the most important…
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Want to Make Drugs Less Lethal? Legalize Them.
With new legalization measures coming to the ballot box, voters have the opportunity to take steps that would reduce the drive to make drugs stronger and more…
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Will a Nonpolitical "Silent Majority" Stop the Left?
Projections have the 2020 election seeing record-high turnout. Conventional wisdom views this as a win for Joe Biden, but could conventional wisdom be wrong?…
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A Collection of Bovardian Epigrams
Wisdom from James Bovard on the train wreck that is American democracy. Original Article: "A Collection of Bovardian Epigrams". This Audio Mises Wire is…