Debt, tariffs, and money printing: Mark Thornton explains how the policy machine rewires markets, and why metals and commodities react first.
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Category Archive: 6b.) Mises.org
When It Comes to the Fed, It’s Always a Rigged Game
Jonathan Newman tackles the new “Federal Reserve Simulator” game in which players try to match wits against the Fed. As Newman found out, however, the same outcomes occur no matter what information one feeds the simulator. In short, it’s rigged.
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SCOTUS Tosses President Trump’s Tariffs
This SCOTUS ruling is a refreshing rebuttal limiting executive branch power to implement President Trump’s troublesome tariffs by executive order through IEEPA.
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Rothbard and Eminent Domain: Confused History and Legal Sleight of Hand
Governments at all levels abuse their “privilege” of eminent domain, the taking of private property for government use. Murray Rothbard understood that government was not justified to seize property for such use in the first place.
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Entrepreneurship and Free Markets in the Age of AI
Dr. Peter Klein explores whether AI can ever replace human entrepreneurs and central planners, arguing from Mises’ calculation problem that even “thinking machines” can only mimic, not originate, the real-world judgment and ownership that markets require.
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The Decline of Small Business in America
Ryan McMaken traces the rise and squeeze of America’s small business economy, showing how tariffs, industrial policy, the Fed, and “too big to fail” bailouts systematically tilt the field toward big corporations and away from independent entrepreneurs and the middle class.
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Milei Defends Capitalism and Austrian Economics at the WEF
This week, Bob walks through Javier Milei’s 2026 address to the World Economic Forum, explaining the Austrian and neoclassical ideas behind Milei’s defense of capitalism—from Rothbard and Kirzner to Pareto efficiency and the welfare theorems.
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What Causes Stagflation?
Keynesians claimed that stagflation—rising price levels and increasing rates of unemployment—couldn’t happen. Then it happened time and again, something predicted and coherently explained by Austrian economists.
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Joint Chiefs Chairman Warns Trump of Significant Risks if US Attacks Iran
Gen. Caine couldn’t provide the same assurances for success as he did with Venezuela. President Trump later denied the reports about Caine’s warnings.
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Emerging Markets Soar While Argentina Waits
Whatever positive economic changes the Milei government might have made in Argentina, the country is still not attractive for new capital investment.
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In Defense of National Borders
The current outburst of protests against President Trump’s enforcement of immigration laws is overshadowing a question that is not being asked: Can we defend having national borders in the first place?
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Antebellum Federal Protections of Slavery
Unfortunately, slavery was not just propped up by policy in the slave states, but federally. It is often overlooked that the federal government—not just slave states—had implemented legal protections of slavery by policy for decades.
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Nock’s War on the State
Before Murray Rothbard, there was Albert Jay Nock laying intellectual broadsides against the tyranny of the state. While Nock (unlike Rothbard) never called for total abolishment of the state, he did want as minimal a state as could be had.
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When Government Favors Big Business over Small Enterprise
Big business will develop naturally in a truly free marketplace. But government intervention and “too-big-to-fail” are also factors that cannot be ignored.
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Nock’s War on the State
Before Murray Rothbard, there was Albert Jay Nock laying intellectual broadsides against the tyranny of the state. While Nock (unlike Rothbard) never called for total abolishment of the state, he did want as minimal a state as could be had.
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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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