As the US is involved in yet another pointless war, we would do well to remember the real costs of war, how it strips us of our liberties, and destroys our futures.
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Category Archive: 6b.) Mises.org
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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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 Free Market for Security
In his concluding argument, Molinari envisions a society where security is provided by competing private firms chosen voluntarily by consumers.
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The Regime of Terror
Molinari describes the inevitable consequences of monopolized security: rising costs, declining quality, and the use of force against the very citizens the government claims to protect.
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The Divine Right of Kings and Majorities
Molinari argues that majority rule is no more legitimate than royal absolutism when it violates individual rights.
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Government and Society
Molinari distinguishes between society, which arises naturally from voluntary human cooperation, and government, which imposes itself through force.
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The Monopolization and Collectivization of the Security Industry
Molinari describes how coercive control over defense led to the familiar abuses of taxation, war, and the suppression of individual liberty.
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SNB Sight Deposits: increased by 3.8 billion francs compared to the previous week
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Household wealth in 2025
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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’s Chairman Schlegel: A few months of negative inflation wouldn’t be a problem
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