As war drums beat again, this time against Iran, we ask ourselves if recklessness from Donald Trump and European and Israeli leaders is pushing us to catastrophe.
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Category Archive: 6b.) Mises.org
How Medical Licensing Serves Big Pharma at the Expense of Public Health
The purpose of medical licensing is not to protect consumers but the financial interests of privileged trade organizations allied with Big Pharma.
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Cultural Marxism Masquerading as True History
Modern academic historians have been captured by the cultural Marxists, no matter how much they deny the obvious truth.
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Revisiting Colonial Massachusetts and Mises’s Taxonomy of Money
Contrary to what the Modern Monetary Theory advocates and their Chartalist allies are claiming, the 1690 colonial Massachusetts issuance of fiat money did not create an enlightened moment in U.S. monetary history. Instead, it was a monetary bait-and-switch.
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Only 13% of Republicans oppose the Iran War
"77 percent of [Republicans] support the war, on average. But that’s exactly what we’d expect for almost any Trump policy."
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Deleting the State: Skoble’s Deleter
Is the state necessary? In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon follows Aeon J. Skoble’s argument that we can do without the state and finds there is much to like in Skoble’s logic.
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Oil price surge sparks fears of $200 barrel amid Iran war
"Wright's use of the word "unlikely" was a veiled concession that a spike to $200 was possible, though he repeated that the price jump would be weeks not months."
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Rothbard at 100: Five Economic Insights That Still Matter
In commemoration of Murray Rothbard’s 100th birthday, Bob shares five “greatest hits” from Rothbard’s economics, covering deficits vs. inflation, monopoly theory, excess capacity, the time structure of production, and his reconstruction of utility and welfare economics.
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GDP growth revised down bigtime to a sluggish 0.7% for Q4
Growth in gross domestic product was down sharply from 4.4% in last year’s Q3 and 3.8% in Q2. The fourth-quarter number was half the govt’s first estimate of 1.4%
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The State’s Favorite Fallacy: The Cudgel in a Suit
When someone argues in favor of state control of economic processes, they are, by definition, presenting an argument based upon the ad baculum fallacy, the “appeal to force.”
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The Duke Lacrosse Case 20 Years Later: How Durham Law Enforcement Promoted a Criminal Conspiracy
The Duke Lacrosse Case would never have been a legal item had not the police and prosecutors of the case lied and broken the law on numerous occasions. Here is a small sampling of the lies they told.
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Only Power Can Check Power
The radical classical liberals of the past were not so naive as to think that words on paper would prevent the abuses of the central state. Allowing the central state to have a monopoly on coercive power is always a mistake.
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Only Power Can Check Power: Why We Need Decentralization
The radical classical liberals of the past were not so naive as to think that words on paper would prevent the abuses of the central state. Allowing the central state to have a monopoly on coercive power is always a mistake.
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The Duke Lacrosse Case 20 Years Later: How Durham Law Enforcement Promoted a Criminal Conspiracy
The Duke Lacrosse Case would never have been a legal item had not the police and prosecutors of the case lied and broken the law on numerous occasions. Here is a small sampling of the lies they told.
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US Intel Warns Iran Regime ‘Not in Danger’ of Collapse
"A 'multitude' of intelligence reports provide 'consistent analysis that the regime is not in danger' of collapse and 'retains control of the Iranian public.'"
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Iran is now exporting more oil than before the war
"The recent increase shows that, unlike other producers, their shipments are unimpeded and that China hasn’t lost its appetite for Tehran’s crude."
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The Robot Won’t Take Your Job. The Government Might
Like the Luddites of two centuries ago, pundits tell us to fear AI because it might put people out of work and create mass unemployment. But AI is not a threat to our jobs, unlike the regulation the government unleashes ostensibly to control AI.
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Only Power Can Check Power
The radical classical liberals of the past were not so naive as to think that words on paper would prevent the abuses of the central state. Allowing the central state to have a monopoly on coercive power is always a mistake.
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The Strait of Hormuz is On Fire
On this episode of Power & Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho look at the economic fallout from the war in Iran. How has Iran been able to control the Strait of Hormuz? How might central bankers react? And draft talk out of Washington? Tune in to hear about this and more, as well as a … Continue reading »
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SNB Sight Deposits: decreased by 3.1 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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