The Fed presumably has an “implied guaranty” from the Treasury, but it seems certain that Congress never dreamed that the Fed could experience the losses and

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03.05.2024

Biden Perpetuates Washington’s Idiotic Steel Trade Policies | Mises Institute

Biden has embraced the trade war. But, if protectionism actually produced competitiveness, American steel manufacturers would have become world leaders long

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03.05.2024

Confusion Worse Confounded | Mises Institute

In ending the gold standard, Nixon was guided by Milton Friedman, who wrongly believed that the Fed could end recessions and cope with inflation by controlling

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03.05.2024

Progress from Poverty | Mises Institute

After the Indochina War, Vietnam was one of the poorest countries in the world, but dramatic free-market reforms have made this formerly socialist country

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03.05.2024

Is America Headed for Stagflation? | Mises Institute

On this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop are joined by Peter St. Onge, a visiting fellow of the Heritage Foundation. As inflation remains

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03.05.2024

How House Republicans Outsource Campus Speech Limits to George Soros | Mises Institute

This week, the House passed H. R. 6090, a bill sold to the public as an “Antisemitism Awareness Act,” but effectively outsources the definition of actionable

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03.05.2024

Fraudulent Logic Guides the UK Smoking Ban | Mises Institute

It is the waning days of the Sunak premiership, and the Conservative party still has a stonking majority despite its cataclysmic capitulation in the polls. The

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03.05.2024

Hyperinflation and the Destruction of Human Personality | Mises Institute

The concrete effects of the destruction of money and property on human personality are demonstrated most vividly in the historical episode of the German

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03.05.2024

Free-Market Profit Comes From Voluntary Exchange, not Exploitation | Mises Institute

Progressives claim that profits are an unjust transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich. In reality, entrepreneurs earn profits by directing resources from

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03.05.2024

When Governments Want More Revenue, Police Gin Up the Cash by Writing Traffic Tickets | Mises Institute

Many police traffic stops are not about safety or protecting the public. They are about siphoning cash from motorists to state and local governments.

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03.05.2024

TikTok Hypocrisy | Mises Institute

President Biden’s campaign will continue using the popular social media site TikTok even though the president supported a provision in the military aid bill he

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03.05.2024

Fiat Money is the Greatest Danger Our Economy Faces | Mises Institute

In nature everything has a cycle. Birth, growth, maturation, death. Everything, including the planets and stars. Nothing stays the same. So why does our

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03.05.2024

Earth Day—A Phony Holiday | Mises Institute

April 22 was Earth Day.. Brain-dead “President” Biden issued a proclamation about it. This said:

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03.05.2024

Javier Milei and Argentina's Economic Challenge | Mises Institute

Argentina's economy has been plagued by increasing inflation since 2007, reaching a world record of 210 percent in 2023. Additionally, the economy has been

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03.05.2024

From the Editor March / April 2024 | Mises Institute

In our current age of rampant monetary inflation and price inflation, good economics has become more relevant for ordinary people. Inflation is not some arcane

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02.05.2024

What the Campus Protesters and Their Critics Get Right and Wrong | Mises Institute

While these students are right to oppose the horrific Israeli attacks on Gaza, many of the protests reflect leftist groupthink and typical higher education

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02.05.2024

Thanks to Government Animal Control, Stray Animals Rule My Neighborhood | Mises Institute

Animal control officers are supposed to, well, control animals in a municipal area. But thanks to animal control policies, it's the stray animals that are in

Mises Institute

02.05.2024

Governments Could Stop Inflating If They Wanted. But They Won't. | Mises Institute

The government can end today's high price-inflation rates any time by ending deficit spending. But the state won't even acknowledge deficit spending is a cause

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02.05.2024

Why the GOP Betrayed Its Own Voters on Ukraine | Mises Institute

Washington Post conservative George Will trots out every tired slogan and bromide in the book to claim that Putin is Hitler and the Ukraine war is a fight for

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02.05.2024

Butler, Butt Out! | Mises Institute

Feminist theorist Judith Butler is calling for mandatory education to confront children with modern gender theory. As David Gordon points out, she wants to use

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01.05.2024

Defending Individual Liberty | Mises Institute

The enemies of individual liberty are numerous, from leftists who see freedom as interfering with the “positive freedoms” offered by the state to conservatives

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01.05.2024

Tin Soldiers and Nixon Coming… | Mises Institute

A version of this article first appeared as an exclusive update to RPI subscribers. Subscribe for free here.

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01.05.2024

Creating Wealth: The Cantillon or the Smith Way | Mises Institute

Although mainstream economists hold that Adam Smith is the father of modern economics, it was Richard Cantillon that recognized the centrality of

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30.04.2024

Attention mises.org Readers! Treat the Students in Your Life to The Best Week of Their Year | Mises Institute

Apply now: The thirty-eighth annual Mises University, where I have lectured for more than thirty of those years, will be held from July 28th to August 3rd.

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30.04.2024

Mises in Argentina: Lessons of the Past for Today | Mises Institute

In 1959, Ludwig von Mises gave lectures on economics in Argentina, where the economy was in steep decline. In the 1920s, Argentina was one of the world's

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30.04.2024

The Great Chocolate Crisis of 2024 | Mises Institute

You probably haven’t even noticed the Great Chocolate Crisis of 2024, but it is real and some of us are very concerned! The wholesale price of cocoa, which

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30.04.2024

Campus Kids Could Deliver Gaza | Mises Institute

American foreign policy is a museum of horrors in which Gaza 2023/2024 is the main exhibit.It is my conviction that Gaza is much more than just one more

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30.04.2024

How EU Law Has Made the Internet Less Free for Everyone Else | Mises Institute

Like the Biden administration, the European Union elites are seeking to crush free speech on the Internet in the name of preventing “hate speech” and

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28.04.2024

Central Banks Are Wrong about Rate Cuts | Mises Institute

Central Bank's control of interest rates cripples economic growth. Yet central banks will not give up power because it is central to financing huge government

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28.04.2024

What’s Wrong With Biden’s Housing Tax Credit? | Mises Institute

In his state of the union address, President Biden expressed his desire for a $400 a month tax credit over two years for first time home buyers. I have argued

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28.04.2024

Freedom of Contract and Property Rights | Mises Institute

Conservatives and utilitarian classical liberals support freedom of contract because they deem it "useful" to society. However, Murray Rothbard believed that

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28.04.2024

Economic Education Has Become Economic Disinformation | Mises Institute

The attempt by the mainstream economics profession to create economic literacy has turned into a movement to promote economic illiteracy.

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28.04.2024

The Great Chocolate Crisis | Mises Institute

In this week's episode, Mark examines the Chocolate Crisis of 2024. Cocoa prices have skyrocketed. The media is trying to paint this as another example of the

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27.04.2024

Why the West Is Giving Up on Individual Rights | Mises Institute

Individual rights originated in Western thinking. Today, it is the West that produces the ruling class that disdains individual rights and replaces them with

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27.04.2024

What Is the Purpose of Economic Theory? | Mises Institute

Mainstream economists believe that economic theory is valid when it “predicts” economic actions or trends. Austrian economists, however, say that the purpose of

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27.04.2024

Opposing Military Intervention: Loving Dictators or Hating War? | Mises Institute

Why have some Americans opposed this nation’s involvement in foreign wars? According to Jacob Heilbrunn of The National Interest, it is because those Americans

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27.04.2024

Did the MMT Camp Correctly Predict the Post-Covid Economy? | Mises Institute

Recently on Twitter, as a reaction to an FT post worrying about the growing debts of various governments, fans of MMT were posting screenshots from a May 2020

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27.04.2024

Word of the Day: Performative | Mises Institute

The western media are, above all, phraseologists. Managing massive vertically integrated “states” requires the controlled and targeted use of repetitive

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27.04.2024

Help Us Publish These Three New Books | Mises Institute

Help us bring crucial truths about economics and history to laymen by supporting our publication efforts this year!

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27.04.2024

Low Time Preference Leads to Civilization | Mises Institute

Economists use time preference to explain the existence of interest, but the ability of people to postpone some present consumption in order to save for the

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The Federal Reserve’s Capital Has Now Plummeted to Negative $121 Billion | Mises Institute

Biden Perpetuates Washington’s Idiotic Steel Trade Policies | Mises Institute

Confusion Worse Confounded | Mises Institute

Progress from Poverty | Mises Institute

Is America Headed for Stagflation? | Mises Institute

How House Republicans Outsource Campus Speech Limits to George Soros | Mises Institute

Fraudulent Logic Guides the UK Smoking Ban | Mises Institute

Hyperinflation and the Destruction of Human Personality | Mises Institute

Free-Market Profit Comes From Voluntary Exchange, not Exploitation | Mises Institute

When Governments Want More Revenue, Police Gin Up the Cash by Writing Traffic Tickets | Mises Institute

TikTok Hypocrisy | Mises Institute

Fiat Money is the Greatest Danger Our Economy Faces | Mises Institute

Earth Day—A Phony Holiday | Mises Institute

Javier Milei and Argentina's Economic Challenge | Mises Institute

From the Editor March / April 2024 | Mises Institute

What the Campus Protesters and Their Critics Get Right and Wrong | Mises Institute

Thanks to Government Animal Control, Stray Animals Rule My Neighborhood | Mises Institute

Governments Could Stop Inflating If They Wanted. But They Won't. | Mises Institute

Why the GOP Betrayed Its Own Voters on Ukraine | Mises Institute

Butler, Butt Out! | Mises Institute

Defending Individual Liberty | Mises Institute

Tin Soldiers and Nixon Coming… | Mises Institute

Creating Wealth: The Cantillon or the Smith Way | Mises Institute

Attention mises.org Readers! Treat the Students in Your Life to The Best Week of Their Year | Mises Institute

Mises in Argentina: Lessons of the Past for Today | Mises Institute

The Great Chocolate Crisis of 2024 | Mises Institute

Campus Kids Could Deliver Gaza | Mises Institute

How EU Law Has Made the Internet Less Free for Everyone Else | Mises Institute

Central Banks Are Wrong about Rate Cuts | Mises Institute

What’s Wrong With Biden’s Housing Tax Credit? | Mises Institute

Freedom of Contract and Property Rights | Mises Institute

Economic Education Has Become Economic Disinformation | Mises Institute

The Great Chocolate Crisis | Mises Institute

Why the West Is Giving Up on Individual Rights | Mises Institute

What Is the Purpose of Economic Theory? | Mises Institute

Opposing Military Intervention: Loving Dictators or Hating War? | Mises Institute

Did the MMT Camp Correctly Predict the Post-Covid Economy? | Mises Institute

Word of the Day: Performative | Mises Institute

Help Us Publish These Three New Books | Mises Institute

Low Time Preference Leads to Civilization | Mises Institute

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