Leftists sarcastically asking where the money for this war will come from are right about the GOP’s hypocrisy, but wrong to imply that it actually means there's plenty to spend on all these government programs. We can’t afford any of this.
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Category Archive: 6b.) Mises.org
Rothbard Never Abandoned His Principles
As we continue to celebrate the centennial of the birth of Murray Rothbard, Wanjiru Njoya reminds us that he never compromised his principles and stood for liberty throughout his all-too-brief life.
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Trump Official Resigns Over Iran War He “Cannot In Good Conscience Support”
"Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby."
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Hyperinflating the Goat
International aid agencies are providing goats for families in Malawi as a way to fight poverty. Like so many other do-good experiments, this one has numerous unintended consequences.
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Asia Times: Iran may be where the US-led order ends
The February 2026 strike on Iran has raised serious questions about both the credibility and sustainability of US leadership in the region.
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Population Doomster and False Prophet of Ecological Apocalypse Paul Ehrlich Has Died
Paul Ehrlich, the leading false prophet of inevitable environmental doom and author of the infamous The Population Bomb, has died at age 93.
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Is Another Stone Age in the Making?
As war drums beat again, this time against Iran, we ask ourselves if recklessness from Donald Trump and European and Israeli leaders is pushing us to catastrophe.
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Popular Interest Rate Theory Describes but Fails to Explain
Milton Friedman and others tried to explain interest rates using liquidity, economic activity, and inflation expectations. These things, however, only describe interest but do not explain it. Only the Austrian theory of time preference correctly explains interest.
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Gold Is Sounding the Alarm on Debt, the Dollar, and the Next Crisis
On the Daniela Cambone Show, Mark Thornton explains why central banks are dumping Treasuries for gold, why US debt is hitting a point of no return, and why silver could move even faster.
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Popular Interest Rate Theory Describes but Fails to Explain
Milton Friedman and others tried to explain interest rates using liquidity, economic activity, and inflation expectations. These things, however, only describe interest but do not explain it. Only the Austrian theory of time preference correctly explains interest.
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Cultural Marxism Masquerading as True History
Modern academic historians have been captured by the cultural Marxists, no matter how much they deny the obvious truth.
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Non-Intervention Without the Fairy Tale of Sovereignty
“Humanitarian intervention” sells itself as a moral shortcut: bypass the messy politics, send in the troops, stop the monster.
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Is Another Stone Age in the Making?
As war drums beat again, this time against Iran, we ask ourselves if recklessness from Donald Trump and European and Israeli leaders is pushing us to catastrophe.
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How Medical Licensing Serves Big Pharma at the Expense of Public Health
The purpose of medical licensing is not to protect consumers but the financial interests of privileged trade organizations allied with Big Pharma.
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Cultural Marxism Masquerading as True History
Modern academic historians have been captured by the cultural Marxists, no matter how much they deny the obvious truth.
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Revisiting Colonial Massachusetts and Mises’s Taxonomy of Money
Contrary to what the Modern Monetary Theory advocates and their Chartalist allies are claiming, the 1690 colonial Massachusetts issuance of fiat money did not create an enlightened moment in U.S. monetary history. Instead, it was a monetary bait-and-switch.
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Only 13% of Republicans oppose the Iran War
"77 percent of [Republicans] support the war, on average. But that’s exactly what we’d expect for almost any Trump policy."
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Deleting the State: Skoble’s Deleter
Is the state necessary? In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon follows Aeon J. Skoble’s argument that we can do without the state and finds there is much to like in Skoble’s logic.
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On Swiss National Bank
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SNB Sight Deposits: decreased by 5.7 billion francs compared to the previous week
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SNB’s Chairman Schlegel: A few months of negative inflation wouldn’t be a problem
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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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