Total mortgage debt will increase as actual ownership in equity will go down. If homeownership does increase, it will be “ownership” of the sort where the homeowner has little to no actual equity.
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Category Archive: 6b.) Mises.org
What Would Hayek and Mises Think about Mamdani?
Based on their writings, what insights do Hayek and Mises provide about the recent election of Mamdani?
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In Praise of Pat Buchanan
For Rothbard, war was the most important political issue, and Pat Buchanan has always supported peace.
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Rothbard: World War I as the Triumph of Progressive Intellectuals
November 11 was once known as Armistice Day, the day set aside to celebrate the end of WWI. In this essay Rothbard discusses the war as the triumph of several Progressive intellectual strains from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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The Logic of Hyperinflation: A Rejoinder to Hülsmann
Philipp Bagus responds to Hülsmann’s prior response. The debate is over whether closure of Argentina’s central bank would cause an inflationary crisis.
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Innovation Is Not the Key Driver of Economic Growth
Contra the recent winners of the Nobel Memorial Prize in economics, free markets, private savings, and entrepreneurship not so-called innovation, is what drives a market economy.
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On Resisting Evil
We libertarians may be anti-state, but that we are emphatically not anti-society or opposed to the real world, however contaminated it might be.
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The Environmental Costs of AI are Overblown
Environmentalists are at it again, this time claiming that AI centers will create environmental disasters all over the country. Once again, they exaggerate greatly.
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Silver: Manipulation or Fundamentals?
Is silver “manipulated,” or are fundamentals doing the work? Mark Thornton sifts the evidence and finds a simpler story.
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Lessons From Mises on Resolving the History Wars
Despite the claims from many historians that they just report the facts, the study of history is highly ideological and historians often depend upon narratives. Mises pointed out another way in his Theory and History.
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Stablecoins: The US Dollar’s Unexpected Lifeline
If stablecoins continue to expand, the architecture of monetary control will inevitably change.
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Ronald Reagan: An Autopsy
How did Murray Rothbard view Ronald Reagan's legacy? A mood of blind "feel-good" Americanism, entrenched big government, and the evisceration of libertarian gains—leaving only one positive (repealing the 55 mph speed limit).
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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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Moving at a High Speed toward an Economic Abyss
As the US economy slowly deteriorates, the government's response is to intervene and to inflate. This does not end well.
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Ilana Mercer on the Rape of Palestinian Men By IDF & Israeli Security Forces
The greater goal of Israel’s legal apparatus is to fend off charges of genocide and war-crimes in international courts of law. Article by Ilana Mercer.
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Gunning for Kagan
A sympathetic case for the America First Committee and their opposition to America’s entry into World War II comes from a surprising source.
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The European economy is stagnating as German economy falls flat again
Europe's economy has grown by a modest 0.2% in the third quarter, according to official figures released Thursday.
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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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SNB Sight Deposits: decreased by 15 billion francs compared to the previous four weeks
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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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2025-06-25 – Quarterly Bulletin 2/2025
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