Government protection and deposit insurance slows the inevitable—until it doesn’t.
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Category Archive: 6b.) Mises.org
Thomas Malthus’s Disciples: The Pro-Natalists
Progressives have repeated the Malthus theme of overpopulation for six decades. However, the real demographic problem facing modern industrial nations has been the dearth of population growth fueled by an inflation culture.
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April home sales were the lowest since 2009
Sales of previously owned homes in April declined 0.5% from March. That is the slowest April pace since 2009. Jobs and incomes aren't nearly as good as we've been told.
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The Rise of War Propaganda and the Defeat of Laissez-Faire
In this lecture from the Mises Institute's recent Conference on War Revisionism, McMaken looks at how classical liberals' pro-peace foreign policy was defeated by a century of war propaganda beginning with the First World War.
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Thomas Massie denounces the 1100+ page bill that no one has read
Massie is right, as usual. Most Republicans will vote for it anyway, and continue the US slide into bankruptcy.
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Airlines brace for the summer of hell
A stagnating economy means fewer vacations and less air travel. Airlines are feeling it.
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Deflation: Who’s Afraid of Falling Prices?
In a sound monetary system and a free market, overall prices would generally fall as the economy grows faster than the money supply, enabling people to purchase more with their money.
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What the Biden Health Coverup Reveals About the Political Class
The reaction to Biden’s cancer announcement reveals how little trust the public has in the people who spent years claiming that Biden’s mental decline was fabricated by right-wing propagandists. That lack of trust is well deserved.
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The Spanish Blackout and the Costs of Renewable Energy
The usual suspects from the American and European elites are claiming that Spain‘s recent blackout was the result of unusual weather conditions. In truth, Spain‘s dependence upon renewable energy was to blame.
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Diploma Inflation and the Erosion of Academic Signaling
Economists have said that a higher education degree is a form of “signaling” by the person holding the diploma. Thanks to government attempts to make higher education readily available, the value of a college degree has been severely degraded.
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What the Biden Health Coverup Reveals About the Political Class
The reaction to Biden’s cancer announcement reveals how little trust the public has in the people who spent years claiming that Biden’s mental decline was fabricated by right-wing propagandists. That lack of trust is well deserved.
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Adam Smith Cannot the Win Tariff War Without Capital
The Wall Street Journal editors have made a monumental error in judgment. In a recent piece, they announced that the Trump administration has lost its trade war against Adam Smith, but there must be free trade in capital goods, not just consumer goods.
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The American Federal Government 21st Bankruptcy Show
Bankruptcy in the short term is painful. In the long term, it is cleansing decades of poor federal government choices.
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Marxist Theories of Oppression
Academic scholars tend to use Marxian terms when pointing out what they see as conditions of “oppression,” believing that race and class determine outcomes. However, the real world is not so abstract and things often are not what Marxists believe to be true.
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The Righteous Cause Conquers the World
Brion McClanahan dismantles the so-called "righteous cause" narrative that shapes modern American history and foreign policy, tracing its roots from Sumner and Lincoln to the war in Iraq.
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Reconstruction Reconsidered
Wanjiru Njoya exposes how federal intervention fueled racial conflict and dismantled the South's social order—challenging modern myths with historical truth.
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Mercantilism in America: The Trouble with Self-Sufficiency
President Trump has invoked the ancient fallacies of mercantilism in fashioning his protectionist trade policies. We will find that mercantilism is just as harmful today than it was hundreds of years ago when it first became Britain‘s national policy.
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MAHA is a Movement of Government Overreach
Robert Kennedy‘s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) crusade is being promoted as a government-led effort to eliminate health hazards in food and medicine. However, MAHA depends upon government overreach, which ultimately will undermine any good MAHA does.
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The Dark Enlightenment Is a Trojan Horse
The "dark enlightenment" is simply a variation on the technocracy of "sustainable development" or the "great reset." Technocratic control is the goal in both cases.
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SNB Sight Deposits: increased by 5.2 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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