Berkshire Hathaway—the investment holding company run by Warren Buffett for the last sixty years—released its much-awaited annual report in late February. In the report, Buffett himself delved into the topic of capitalism and America’s relationship thereto. Early in the preamble to the report, Buffett hints at the connection between inflation and government malfeasance:Paper money can see its value evaporate if fiscal folly prevails. In some...
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Monthly Archive: March 2025
First They Came for the Op-Ed Writers
On March 25, six masked federal agents seized a Turkish graduate student on the streets of Somerville, Massachusetts. Rumeysa Ozturk—who was wearing a hajib—is a Fulbright scholar working on a doctorate at Tufts University.She was abducted and vanished into the maw of the federal prison system. The Trump administration ignored a federal court order and took Ozturk from Massachusetts to Louisiana federal detention facilities.But the Trump...
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Migros sells Mibelle to Spanish Persán Group
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Safe harbour Swiss franc rises amid tariff uncertainty
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Do Inflationary Expectations Cause General Increases in Prices?
Many believe the key cause to a general increase in prices are so-called “inflationary expectations.” For instance, if there is a large increase in the prices of oil, individuals will start forming expectations for higher inflation ahead. Consequently, individuals will speed up their purchases of goods and services at present, thereby raising the demand for goods and services, all other things being equal. This is supposed to set in motion general...
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Equities and Rates: Look Out Below
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Britain—Like France and Spain—Is Poorer than Mississippi
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Are Used Car Prices Set To Soar Again?
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How to End Drug Violence
Recently President Trump threatened to invade Mexico—all in its best interest, of course—in order to smash the drug cartels that are responsible for funneling so many illegal drugs into the US. There is no doubt that the drug cartels are wealthy and vicious criminals. Apparently they have taken over major towns and provinces in Mexico and have assassinated local officials and anyone else trying to curb their “trade.” Is there any alternative to...
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Even the Inventor of GDP Statistics Knew Government Spending Was Dubious
What is the Mises Institute?
The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property...
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Free Trade with All Nations
Richard Cobden (1804-1865) was a British member of Parliament who championed free trade, the repeal of the Corn Laws, and a laissez-faire economy.[A speech delivered in Manchester, England, January 15, 1846]I shall begin the few remarks which I have to offer to this meeting by proposing, contrary to my usual custom, a resolution; and it is, “That the merchants, manufacturers, and other members of the National Anti-Corn-Law League claim no...
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The Saint-Simonians in Our Midst: Ben Bernanke and the GFC
Henri de Saint-Simon (1760-1825), a French intellectual, was one of the founding fathers of socialism. Saint-Simon wanted to forge a “scientific understanding of society” which he would use to eliminate poverty and inequality by centrally planning the economy through the Parisian Banking Houses.In this article, I argue that Ben Bernanke—along with his other two musketeers, Hank Paulson and Timothy Geithner—are Saint-Simonians par excellence,...
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April 2025 Monthly
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Free Trade in the Twenty-First Century
What is the Mises Institute?
The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property...
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Sellable Rally Or “Buy The Dip”
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Skin Tone Products, Markets, and “White Privilege”
The first time I read about “white privilege” in college was on a Blackboard assigned readings list. This was not a class I attended, but had access to in order to provide some help to the professor. As it turned out, I had read the original paper on this topic: Peggy McIntosh’s “White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Through Work in Women’s Studies” (1988).While many critiques could be made—and have...
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Foreign Aid, Reparations, And Economic Growth
Developing countries in Africa and the Caribbean continue to press the United Kingdom for reparations, believing that financial compensation will rejuvenate their economies. However, history has demonstrated that large inflows of money from rich nations have failed to spur sustained economic growth. Africa alone has received over $1 trillion in aid, yet economic performance across the continent remains disappointing. Similarly, Commonwealth nations...
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The Struggle for Liberty
[The Struggle for Liberty: A Libertarian History of Political Thought by Ralph Raico. Edited by Ryan McMaken. Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2025; 287 pp.]Ralph Raico was the foremost historian of classical liberalism and one of Murray Rothbard’s closest followers. In 2004, he gave a series of ten lectures at the Ludwig von Mises Institute that were very well received, but the lectures were never printed. We have Ryan McMaken to thank for making them...
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Friday Surprises: Tokyo Inflation on the Upside, France and Spain on the Downside, Stronger UK Retail Sales
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On Swiss National Bank
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SNB Sight Deposits: increased by 1.7 billion francs compared to the previous week
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2025-07-31 – Interim results of the Swiss National Bank as at 30 June 2025
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SNB Brings Back Zero Percent Interest Rates
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Hold-up sur l’eau potable (2/2) : la supercherie de « l’hydrogène vert ». Par Vincent Held
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2025-06-25 – Quarterly Bulletin 2/2025
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