Category Archive: 6b.) Mises.org

Taxes and the Rise of the Modern State

In this lecture from the 2025 Mises Institute Supporters summit, Ryan looks at how the modern state is built on the rapid rise of taxation in recent centuries.

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Dystopia Misdiagnosed: How the Rich Drive Health Innovation

The dystopian futuristic movie Elysium portrays a terrible future in which only the rich have medical care while the poor suffer on an overpopulated, polluted planet. The film’s theme—that only huge wealth transfers can bring medical care to low-income people—is fundamentally flawed.

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Back to (Mamdani’s) Future

What will the future of New York look like under Mamdani’s mayorship? If only we had a time machine, however, given the policies, it is possible to imagine some outcomes.

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Hobbes’s Accidental Case Against the State

If Hobbes is right about human nature, then he is wrong about the state as a solution. Ironically, his key arguments for the state are actually key reasons against it.

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Chicago Fed’s Goolsbee says maybe the Fed should stop cutting rates until it knows the CPI inflation rate

At the FOMC press conference, Powell admitted the Fed is deciding monetary policy with no official data.

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Did Virginia’s Huge Population of Federal Bureaucrats Swing the Election to Spanberger?



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Private Jobs Report: US Lost 9K Jobs in October

As Trump declares a “golden age,” private jobs decrease.

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Closing Argentina’s Central Bank: Rejoinder



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Dystopia Misdiagnosed: How the Rich Drive Health Innovation

The dystopian futuristic movie Elysium portrays a terrible future in which only the rich have medical care while the poor suffer on an overpopulated, polluted planet. The film’s theme—that only huge wealth transfers can bring medical care to low-income people—is fundamentally flawed.

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Elysium Misdiagnosed: How the Rich, Not Dystopia, Drive Health Innovation

The dystopian futuristic movie “Elysium” portrays a terrible future in which on the rich have medical care while the poor suffer on an overpopulated, polluted planet. The film’s theme—that only huge wealth transfers can bring medical care to low-income people—is fundamentally flawed.

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Election Fallout: Is Inflation Radicalizing Our Politics?

On this episode of Power & Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho take a look at this week's off-year elections. Were any of the outcomes a real surprise? Does Mamdami reflect the future of the left? Will affordability bring down MAGA? The roundtable discuss these questions and more.

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The Election of Mamdani: What It Means – And What It Doesn’t Mean

While giddy socialists are proclaiming that Zohran Mamdani's electoral victory is the beginning of a socialist takeover of the U.S., the Democratic Socialists of America have a long way before they can complete their stated mission.

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Why Food Stamp Recipients (and Government Contractors) Should not Be Allowed to Vote

If the voting taxpayers (those who actually pay the bills) are outnumbered or outcompeted by the tax receivers, then national bankruptcy is the most likely outcome.

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The Election of Mamdani: What It Means – And What It Doesn’t Mean

While giddy socialists are proclaiming that Zohran Mamdani’s electoral victory is the beginning of a socialist takeover of the US, the Democratic Socialists of America have a long way before they can complete their stated mission.

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Trying to Outrun Inflation With Speculation

The results of inflation we see everywhere. But, while we try to out-race higher prices with speculation, we never know when the crash will come.

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Delinquencies Mount as the American Consumer Runs Out of Money

After years of bubble-fueled “prosperity” funded by monetary inflation to the tune of five trillion dollars, American consumers appear to be running out of money.

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Sam Altman’s Open AI wants more taxpayer money

Pseudo entrepreneur Sam Altman now wants "a federal guarantee to make it easier to finance massive investments in AI chips for data centers."

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The Efficient Market Hypothesis Is Fatally Flawed

Much of mainstream economics holds to the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH), which is built on highly unrealistic foundations. The Austrian causal-realist approach has more explanatory power.

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Trump’s Tariff Power Grab

The justices that Trump appointed to the Supreme Court have shown a recent intolerance for the kinds of semantic leaps his administration is relying on to justify its tariffs. Will they remain consistent or fall in line behind the president?

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Trump’s Tariff Power Grab

The justices that Trump appointed to the Supreme Court have shown a recent intolerance for the kinds of semantic leaps his administration is relying on to justify its tariffs. Will they remain consistent or fall in line behind the president?

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