A foreign policy that seeks to maintain a global empire is entirely incompatible with the laissez-faire, free-market system at home that many hawkish self-described libertarians claim to support.
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Category Archive: 6b.) Mises.org
39 Going on 40 (Trillion)
39 going on $40 trillion is an achievement only in the sense that many once thought we’d never see numbers this large.
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Trump’s Foreign Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean Needs a Strategic Reset
President Trump is not only angering Iranians and most of Europe. He also is making new enemies in both North and South America. Perhaps it is time for policy reset.
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Luke Gromen on the Strait of Hormuz and Supply Chain Collapse
Bob sits down with macro researcher Luke Gromen of Forest for the Trees to discuss the cascading supply chain consequences of a closed Strait of Hormuz.
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Peaceful Nationalism as a Foundation for Economic Liberalism
Ludwig von Mises Mises argues in Nation, State, and Economy that nationalism is compatible with economic and political liberty if it is peaceful, based on self-determination as an individual right.
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Who Pays the Hormuz Toll?
According to Rothbard’s first law of incidence, “ no tax can be shifted forward.” That is, the person or company paying the tax cannot make the buyer pay the tax.
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Raico, Ekirch, and the Tragedy of American Militarism
In dealing with the question of why the United States, a country founded on liberty, turned into a militaristic behemoth, Ralph Raico looked to the work of historian Arthur Ekirch for answers.
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Peaceful Nationalism as a Foundation for Economic Liberalism
Ludwig von Mises Mises argues in Nation, State, and Economy that nationalism is compatible with economic and political liberty if it is peaceful, based on self-determination as an individual right.
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God Bless Captain Vere: When Constitutional Duty Yields to Institutional Power
With President Trump demanding people in the armed forces as well as in other government offices do his bidding no matter what the law might be, it is time for people to learn the lesson of Captain Vere.
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Tucker Carlson apologizes for endorsing Trump
" I want to say I’m sorry for misleading people, and it was not intentional. That’s all I’ll say.”
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Is Iran Negotiating Badly?
The US's non-Israel Middle Eastern allies (i.e., the Gulf dictatorship states) apparently still are not concerned that an all-out US attack would be bad news for the Gulf states.
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Why Jerome Powell — not Trump — will decide when the Fed chief steps down
" Jerome Powell has said that he would serve as 'chair pro tem' until his successor is confirmed. So Powell could sue, suggesting that he, not Miran, is chair. It's quite messy..."
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Who Pays the Hormuz Toll?
According to Rothbard’s first law of incidence, “ no tax can be shifted forward.” That is, the person or company paying the tax cannot make the buyer pay the tax.
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Raico, Ekirch, and the Tragedy of American Militarism
In dealing with the question of why the United States, a country founded on liberty, turned into a militaristic behemoth, Ralph Raico looked to the work of historian Arthur Ekirch for answers.
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Fed-Chair Nominee Warsh faces Senate hearing this morning
“ The problem that I have here is that we had some U.S. attorney … thinking it would be cute to bring Chair Powell under an investigation just a few months before the position was going to be open.”
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When Legal Methods Become Rhetoric
Brazilian jurisprudence is tampering with legal discourse from two distinct traditions: proportionality and reasonableness.
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Trump Is Driving Gold Crazy, Along with the Rest of the World
President Trump’s erratic actions have created uncertainty in the gold markets, and just about everywhere else, and there is no end in sight.
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Four-Letter Economic Words
Economics has its own four-letter words. Although they are not obscene, socialists and statists would find them so.
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Government Policies, Not “Monopolies,” Undermine the Economy
Whenever there is an economic problem, politicians in knee-jerk response blame private monopolies. The problem isn’t monopolies; the problem is government.
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On Swiss National Bank
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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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SNB Sight Deposits: decreased by 3.1 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
