In the late 1800s, American finally went in search of empire abroad, taking land by force and subjugating people who simply wanted their captors to leave.
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Category Archive: 6b.) Mises.org
Ft. Knox Full of Impure Gold Unfit for International Transactions
The bulk of the US gold reserves held in Fort Knox are made up of impure “non-standard” bars that don’t qualify for use in international settlements.
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Want to Cut Taxes? Reduce Government Spending.
Politicians love to claim they are cutting taxes all the while running up ruinous debts and deficits. If they wish to get serious about cutting taxes, they first need to cut spending.
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Federal Prosecutor: “I’d Like to Prosecute Any Nun Who Still Wears the Head Habit”
DOJ prosecutor Gaston replied: “I would like to take a special assignment of finding and prosecuting [habited nuns].”
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Wall Street and Sound Money
" Wall Street cannot be counted on to do anything to move the American monetary system towards the proper sound money standard we so desperately need – indeed, quite the opposite."
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Gold, Rules, and the Limits of Monetary Control: The Fallacy of Monetary Control
In 1971, when the last formal link between the dollar and gold was severed, more than a monetary system collapsed.
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How Government Debt Reshapes the Economy
The system does not break all at once; it wears down slowly, through a steady loss of purchasing power that households are already beginning to feel.
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The Justice Department Indicts the Ministry of Love
The recent DOJ indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center might be controversial, but what is not controversial is that the SPLC engaged in conduct that was more reminiscent of the Ministry of Love in 1984 than protecting someone’s civil rights.
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Government Regulations Create Monopolies and Stifle Competition
The regulatory state is also the entity that stifles competition, reduces economic cooperation, and impedes the production of wealth.
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Two Important Graphs and Rick Rule
The aggregate net worth of all Americans is $170 trillion. Total government liabilities (on and off the books) are $160 trillion. Rick Rule: "I just don't understand how that great big large number goes away." Neither does the Fed.
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Why “Luck” Doesn’t Explain Wealth and Success in the Marketplace
Luck egalitarians fallaciously declare property and wealth to be illegitimate or at least suspect due to a mysterious, unquantifiable force called luck. Their arguments fail even if what they claim about luck is true.
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The Luck Fallacy and Luck Egalitarianism
Luck egalitarians fallaciously declare property and wealth to be illegitimate or at least suspect due to a mysterious, unquantifiable force called luck. Their arguments fail even if what they claim about luck is true.
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Burned by a Red Hot Stove
The Australian philosopher David Stove, while not exactly a Rothbardian, still preferred the free market. In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon introduces readers to Stove’s many interesting viewpoints.
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Top AI companies agree to work with Pentagon on secret data
The US regime can entice "cooperation" from tech companies with enough taxpayer money and threats of regulation.
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GOP Congressmen Seek to Extend US Veterans Benefits to Israeli Soldiers
Once reserved to actual American servicemen, Republicans now seek taxpayer funded benefits for Americans who fight for Israel.
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USAID Funded Aid Programs Abroad, But Mainly Was a Jobs Program for Progressives
The Trump administration’s downsizing USAID has brought the usual claims: that without US aid, millions of poor people around the world will die of starvation and disease. Not surprisingly, the claims are exaggerated.
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The Tragedy of Socialized Fertility
The dearth of child-bearing in western countries like the US is seen as a political crisis. Yet, if there is any place in our lives where government should stay out, it is in the area of childbirth.
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We Are Living in the Fourth American Republic
The old republic is gone. The constitutional order of the Jeffersonian years—i.e., the so-called "American experiment"—was swept away long ago.
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Heads up for NZD and CHF traders, RBNZ Gov Breman and SNB Chair Schlegel to speak
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Swiss franc appreciation has led to tighter monetary conditions – SNB minutes
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