Category Archive: 6b) Austrian Economics

On Resisting Evil

We libertarians may be anti-state, but that we are emphatically not anti-society or opposed to the real world, however contaminated it might be.

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Congressional Republicans Must Stand Up to the President on Venezuela!



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Trump promises $2k “stimulus” checks, but the numbers are bogus.

“A dividend of at least $2,000 a person (not including high income people!) will be paid to everyone.” But it's all just more federal deficit spending.

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Report: US To Build $500 Million Military Base in Israel on the Gaza Border

According to the Israeli investigative outlet Shomrim, the base will be big enough to house thousands of US and international troops.

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What FDR Did to Our Money



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Atlanta Fed President will retire in February

Raphael W. Bostic, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, announced his retirement at the end of his current term on Feb. 28, 2026.

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Neither God nor Man At Yale

The liberal arts in higher education are in danger and many there are blaming (of course) free markets. However, by substituting progressive propaganda for higher learning, the leaders of liberal arts institutions sealed their own fate.

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October was the worst month for layoffs in 22 years

The job picture continues to worsen: "This is the highest total for October in over 20 years, and the highest total for a single month in the fourth quarter since 2008."

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Donald Trump’s Approval Rating ‘In a Free Fall’ for Weeks: Nate Silver

Approval ratings plummet as the Trump admin has become a hotbed of warmongering, big spending, and an endless churn of big-government schemes.

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Sorcerers of Demand

Central planners act as sorcerers who can conjure economic prosperity through artificially increasing demand.

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50-Year Mortgages Won’t Make Housing More Affordable

President Trump has proposed a 50-year mortgage for new homebuyers, ostensibly to make housing more affordable. Actually, this financial instrument will make housing more costly and do nothing to address the root of this entire problem: the artificial housing shortage.

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Rethinking “Sticky Prices” and Monetary Disequilibrium

Bob Murphy and Jonathan Newman walk through his claim that real‑world exchanges clear markets—even with supposedly “sticky” prices—and what that implies for money, contracts, inventories, and unemployment statistics.

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The Architecture of Peace: How Markets Transform Conflict into Cooperation

As Americans celebrate the destructive wars that helped shape this country, we also remember that free markets promote peace and individual liberty.

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On Veterans Day, Remember the Lies That Filled Military Cemeteries

A few hours studying the lessons of history can prevent heaps of grave-digging in the coming years. None of the veterans we celebrate on Veterans Day died protecting freedom in the US.

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Trump’s 50-Year Mortgage Will Bring More Inflation and Corporate Bailouts

Total mortgage debt will increase as actual ownership in equity will go down. If homeownership does increase, it will be “ownership” of the sort where the homeowner has little to no actual equity.

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What Would Hayek and Mises Think about Mamdani?

Based on their writings, what insights do Hayek and Mises provide about the recent election of Mamdani?

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In Praise of Pat Buchanan

For Rothbard, war was the most important political issue, and Pat Buchanan has always supported peace.

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Rothbard: World War I as the Triumph of Progressive Intellectuals

November 11 was once known as Armistice Day, the day set aside to celebrate the end of WWI. In this essay Rothbard discusses the war as the triumph of several Progressive intellectual strains from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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The Logic of Hyperinflation: A Rejoinder to Hülsmann

Philipp Bagus responds to Hülsmann’s prior response. The debate is over whether closure of Argentina’s central bank would cause an inflationary crisis.

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Innovation Is Not the Key Driver of Economic Growth

Contra the recent winners of the Nobel Memorial Prize in economics, free markets, private savings, and entrepreneurship not so-called innovation, is what drives a market economy.

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