On the economy, Trump gives himself a grade of “A+++++,” which is reminiscent of Hoover and other politicians who interpreted their economic failures as successes.
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Category Archive: 6b.) Mises.org
Fannie and Freddie are quietly buying up billions in mortgage securities
The GSEs have likely been told by the administration to buy up more mortgage debt to create the illusion that there is more demand for real estate than there is.
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Cuba’s much-praised health care system is a disaster.
Cuban hospitals are overwhelmed, pharma drugs are in short supply, and diagnostic tools are in short supply. The Cuban state is pretending nothing is wrong.
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Risk, Uncertainty, Profits, and Modern Portfolio Theory
While Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT) is popular in academic economics and finance, it fails to properly explain profits, mistakenly confusing entrepreneurial profit seeking with risk management.
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Will Kevin Hassett’s Fed-Chair candidacy get derailed?
Hassett was thought to be a done deal, but Trump and his allies are now suggesting that Kevin Warsh is the frontrunner.
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Chile moves right as conservative, Catholic father of nine children wins presidency
He's described by media as "hard right" and "ultra-conservative" which suggests he's a center-right candidate who, nonetheless, handily beat his communist rival.
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Risk, Uncertainty, Profits, and Modern Portfolio Theory
While Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT) is popular in academic economics and finance, it fails to properly explain profits, mistakenly confusing entrepreneurial profit seeking with risk management.
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How Religious Freedom in America Was Founded on Privatization and Decentralization
The drive to religious freedom in America was carried out overwhelmingly in the state legislatures—and the federal First Amendment had almost nothing to do with it.
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How the the Farmland Protection Policy Act Has Socialized Farm Land
For more than 40 years, US farm policy has socialized farm land and transferred wealth to politically-connected people.
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Argentina’s Rocky Road to Economic Freedom
While the jury still is out regarding Javier Milei’s economic “reforms” in Argentina, one must remember that economic intervention in that country is thoroughly entrenched in political and economic life there.
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Review: <em>Sexual Freedom and Its Impact on Economic Growth and Prosperity</em>
High time preference is a sign of economic degradation, and Bose shows that a rejection of Christian sexual ethics is a feature of a high time preference society.
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Leaked files ‘show US wants to persuade four nations to leave EU’
The countries seen as targets to follow Brexit are Austria, Hungary, Italy and Poland, according to leaked details of the US national security strategy.
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Inflation, Interventionism, and Intergenerational Resentment
Inflation does more than just force up prices. It destroys the wealth-producing process, especially with young people who are prevented from acquiring the same kinds of assets earlier generations procured. The result is inter-generational conflict.
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Financial Times asks: is silver the new gold?
On Wednesday, the silver price hit $63.86 per ounce — nearly double its level a year ago — after the Federal Reserve trimmed rates by 25 basis points.
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Our Secret Constitution
Through the most bloody war in American history to date, Lincoln unleashed an inchoate “secret constitution” that began to bring the US into closer alignment with equality and democracy, which many view as a good thing.
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House votes to nullify Trump order and restore bargaining rights for federal workers
Federal workers are a powerful lobby in Washington, and taxpayers pay for federal bureaucrats' wages inflated through federal laws favoring federal unions.
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Minnesota Somali Scammers Prove That Politics Is a Spoils System
Christopher Chantrill: Most every corrupt government program begins as a moral crusade and ends up as a spoils system: Social Security, Medicare, Obamacare, etc.
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Report: Trump To Appoint US General To Lead Gaza ‘International Stabilization Force’
President Trump is planning to appoint a two-star US general to lead the international force that may be deployed to Gaza under the US ceasefire deal.
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