The modern state doesn’t get its power from the consent of the governed. Instead, it creates crises and then uses coercion to demand obedience.
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Category Archive: 6b.) Mises.org
Stop Fighting Your Neighbor: The Mechanics of State Power and How to Opt Out
The modern state doesn’t get its power from the consent of the governed. Instead, it creates crises and then uses coercion to demand obedience.
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Brazil’s Social Function Trap: When Property Becomes Conditional, Markets Become Political
While Brazil calls itself a constitutional democracy that has a market economy, private property and markets themselves are subject to conditions set by the government itself.
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History Is Not a Mathematical Calculation
Understanding history is not about understanding formulas or narratives. Instead, we must understand the people who made history, their motives, and their goals.
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Machiavelli Is Dead: Why Politics Without Property Rights, Rules, and Moral Limits Cannot Work
Modern political economy is based upon a Machiavellian belief in might makes right. Yet, political power cannot accomplish what free markets and private property rights have done in lifting billions of people out of poverty.
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We Will Barro You
Economist Robert Barro has questioned the necessity of fighting a war in this country to end slavery. In this week's Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon looks at Barro's reasoning and finds it sound.
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Why Politicians Want Higher Home Prices
Ryan McMaken of the Mises Institute and Christopher Calton of the Independent Institute talk about why politicians want higher home prices. Even Trump now admits he wants higher home prices, and it's because older voters want their asset prices to go up forever.
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Machiavelli Is Dead: Why Politics Without Property Rights, Rules, and Moral Limits Cannot Work
Modern political economy is based upon a Machiavellian belief in might makes right. Yet, political power cannot accomplish what free markets and private property rights have done in lifting billions of people out of poverty.
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The Ruthlessness and Brutality of the US Government
From time to time, the American people need to be reminded who is the boss. The boss is the US government. The citizenry are the serfs, the servants, the subordinates.
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A Rothbardian Perspective on ICE Agents in Minnesota
While the political climate demands allegiance to one side or another, a more reasoned view can be found through libertarian principles, supported by the words of Murray Rothbard.
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Is Bitcoin Fiat Money?
Bob applies Mises’ taxonomy of money and the regression theorem to Bitcoin, asking whether it should be classified as commodity or fiat money and whether Austrian theory really rules out Bitcoin ever becoming money.
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Does Acts Show Early Christian Communism?
Superficial reading of some early texts in Acts seem to suggest the ideal of Christian communal property ownership, or communism, rather than private property, but this is mistaken and the evidence is within Acts itself.
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Trump, Immigration, and ICE
Restoring the rule of law and Constitutional government on immigration—something wrecked by Trump's rule-by-decree with federal agents—is vastly more important than expelling illegal immigrants.
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Why America’s Two-Party System Will Never Threaten the True Political Elites
The fact that the Republican and Democratic parties are allowed to circulate into key positions of government is proof enough that they are no threat to the true governing elites.
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The Idiocracy that Is California Politics
If California voters and politicians do not understand the current crisis, we will see the continuous march to perdition as California politicians refuse to acknowledge that they are killing the geese laying the golden eggs.
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Bitcoin falls below $65,000.
Bitcoin is back at November 2021 levels as bullion and big-tech stocks all take a beating in the midst of new disappointing jobs hiring data.
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Don’s Rights Argument Is a Lemon
Needless to say, Don Lemon does not understand the First Amendment, let alone Rothbard’s property rights argument regarding speech.
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On Swiss National Bank
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SNB Sight Deposits: decreased by 5.3 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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