Is paying down the federal debt a recession trigger? Bob takes on the MMT claim and checks the record, citing US debt payoffs, Canada’s 1990s reforms, and ECB case studies.
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Category Archive: 6b.) Mises.org
Individual Liberty in Libertarian and Conservative Philosophy
As Murray Rothbard’s views on individual liberty progressed, he increasingly embraced men like Richard Weaver and John Randolph, who both stressed the importance of private property rights and political decentralization.
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Professor Jesús Huerta de Soto’s Acceptance Address at the Casa Rosada
Professor Jesús Huerta de Soto gives his acceptance speech of Argentina’s Order of May for Merit Award this year in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Recipes with Rothbard: What Chocolate Cake Can Teach About Economics
When studying praxeology, something as trivial as the recipe for chocolate cake can become a way to better teach us Austrian economics.
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When Regulation, Not Capitalism, Creates Fake Jobs
Among the criticisms of capitalism is that it supposedly creates meaningless jobs created by villainous capitalists to keep people docile. However, it is state power and regulation that makes many jobs little more than meaningless make work.
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Recipes with Rothbard: What Chocolate Cake Can Teach About Economics
When studying praxeology, something as trivial as the recipe for chocolate cake can become a way to better teach us Austrian economics.
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Imagining the End: Leary of Lincoln
This week, Dr. Gordon examines the work of the late Jonathan Lear and some thoughts he expressed about Lincoln and the treatment of the Confederate dead following Gettysburg.
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Sky-high prices in Vegas lead to fewer tourists
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority reported an 11 percent drop in visitors year-on-year in June, followed by a 6.7 drop in August.
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New Scholarship in the QJAE and the JLS
New scholarly work is appearing regularly in the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics and the Journal of Libertarian Studies. Here is a sampling of recently published articles.
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Say Hi to UBI
This is not the path to prosperity. It is the final stage of the ruinous collectivist project.
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Jerome Powell’s Just Making Things Up
On this episode of Radio Rothbard, Jonathan Newman joins Ryan and Tho to discuss this week's Fed rate cut, and to breakdown down Jerome Powell's most recent press conference.
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By All Means, Elect Mamdani and Watch His Socialist Laboratory at Work
Henry Hazlett wrote in Economics in One Lesson that each generation has to relearn economic fallacies that government employs when implementing bad policies. New Yorkers are about to learn a lot of new lessons.
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By All Means, Elect Mamdani and Watch His Socialist Laboratory at Work
Henry Hazlett wrote in Economics in One Lesson that each generation has to relearn economic fallacies that government employs when implementing bad policies. New Yorkers are about to learn a lot of new lessons.
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The Tragedy of Expatriation: Europe’s Lost Future
Over the centuries, European governments have driven talented workers out of their countries. That unfortunate legacy continues as France is the latest nation facing a “brain drain.”
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Murray Rothbard and World War II Origins
Murray Rothbard’s view of the origins of World War II has an important lesson for us today.
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Easy-Money Policy Accelerates as the Fed Freezes QT and Lowers the Target Interest Rate
Once we look past the Fed’s excuses, it’s likely we're witnessing the Fed give up on its two-percent target in real time.
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Five Myths about the History of Political Thought
In 2004, Ralph Raico, presented a 10-hour lecture series on the history of political thought. “History: The Struggle for Liberty” presented a concise summary of the more than 400 years of political thought that underlies the political ideology of laissez-faire.
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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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