Category Archive: 6b.) Mises.org

Cheap Calories, Expensive Consequences: How Federal Policy Contributes to Chronic Disease

The federal government heavily subsidizes certain politically-connected food growers in the name of “protecting our food supply.” Actually, the government protects the livelihood of those that promote unhealthy foods.

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The Immorality of Trump’s War with Iran Matters

Anyone who cares about American greatness must also refuse to allow us to become the kind of society that shrugs off the crimes our government commits in our name and with our money.

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How the Iranian war may lead to the end of the petrodollar

"The conflict could be remembered as a key catalyst for erosion in petrodollar dominance and the beginnings of the petroyuan."

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Five New Lectures from Last Week’s LSC and AERC Academic Conferences



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Congress Wants Cheaper Housing—By Discouraging Housing Investment

Home prices and rents have risen sharply over the past several years, leaving many families struggling to buy or rent a place to live.

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Barbarians at the Redemption Gate

As investors become squeezed as the economy tightens, they look toward the government to provide them with even more cheap credit. Ordinary Americans are paying for these unsound policies.

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Individualism in Rothbard’s Natural Rights Libertarianism

Murray Rothbard’s system was built upon the natural rights of individuals, and tying liberty to property and ownership, not collectivism.

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Government Planning Doesn’t Fix Economies

Politicians say they can “fix” the economy. But economists Friedrich Hayek and Ludwig von Mises pointed out how government “fixes" lead to bigger problems. Ryan McMaken appears on Stossel TV.

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Sabrin in WSJ: America Has a G-Man-Made Affordability Crisis

The problem reaches beyond subsidies, mandates and regulation.

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McMaken on Stossel: Meet the Austrians

Politicians say they can “fix” the economy. But economists Friedrich Hayek and Ludwig von Mises pointed out how government “fixes" lead to bigger problems. Ryan McMaken is interviewed by John Stossel for this interview about what we can learn from Mises and Hayek.

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The Mantle of Science

Rothbard argues that genuine science in the social realm starts with clear logic about human action.

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Adam Smith and the Myth of the Founder

While Adam Smith has played an important historical role in the development of economic thought, as Murray Rothbard pointed out, he hardly is the original apostle of laissez-faire economics.

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War Abroad and Authoritarianism at Home



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The Mistaken Identity of Prediction Markets

Mainstream finance regularly confuses finance, insurance and betting. The Austrian School provides the tools to understand their differences.

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Doubts About Trump’s Iran Strategy Spread Among Troops

Troops are now saying "’ We do not want to die for Israel." Unfortunately, many American boys will likely be forced into battle to protect the US-Israel-Saudi-Epstein alliance.

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Rothbard on Interventionism: Writing the Last Chapter of Economic Theory

Professor Joseph Salerno traces how Rothbard's mastery of the praxeological method led him to the controversial but logically airtight conclusion that business cycles have a single, exogenous cause and a single cure.

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Americans now fighting for Saudi dictators in the Middle East

Dictator Mohammed bin Salman has convinced Trump to help the anti-Christian, absolutist Saudi dictatorship " remake the Middle East."

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Heads I Win, Tails You Lose: When Every Market Outcome Is Called a Failure



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Big Government vs. Small Business in America

America has a long history of vibrant small business. But small business went into decline in the twentieth century, and it wasn't just due to large scale industrialization. Government has played a big role.

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Scarcity and the Machine: Opportunity Cost in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

For more than two centuries, the doomsday crowd has claimed that capital development will create mass unemployment. And for two centuries, they have been wrong. The same goes for artificial intelligence.

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