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When Moderation Becomes Method: Scientism and the Prestige of Experts

2026-02-18

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2026-02-18

The middle of the road reveals itself not as balance, but as a gentle slope toward the rationalized management of social life.

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Why We Should Repeal the Civil Rights Act

2026-02-17

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2026-02-17

The Civil Rights Act, first passed in 1964, is falsely connected with freedom. In reality, this law severely restricts individual liberty and replaces it with coercive government acts.

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Voter ID is Common Sense, But it Won’t Fix Anything

2026-02-17

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2026-02-17

While the Voter ID debate consumes the airwaves with political debate, the real issue is not who is elected, but the unelected elites that hold power. Even if Voter ID passes, the new law will not change the real structure of power.

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California’s Billionaire Tax and State-to-State Flight

2026-02-17

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2026-02-17

Bob lays out California’s proposed 5% wealth tax on billionaires, using it to explain why taxes on wealth are especially destructive, how different tax structures change incentives, and what recent migration data says about people voting with their feet.

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A Brief History of the Petite Bourgeoisie

2026-02-17

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2026-02-17

From the Jacksonians to the Marxists, political theorists have understood that there is something unique about "small industry" between big business and propertyless workers.

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Why Mises’s The Theory of Money and Credit Is Still Important Today

2026-02-17

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2026-02-17

Ludwig von Mises’s first major work was The Theory of Money and Credit in which he explained the role of money in the economy and also pointed out what causes the boom-bust cycle. It remains an important classic in Austrian economics.

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Why Mises’s The Theory of Money and Credit Is Still Important Today

2026-02-17

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2026-02-17

Ludwig von Mises’s first major work was The Theory of Money and Credit in which he explained the role of money in the economy and also pointed out what causes the boom-bust cycle. It remains an important classic in Austrian economics.

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Freedom at the Extremes: Why Liberty Attracts Both the Brilliant and the Plain

2026-02-17

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2026-02-17

Why does such a strong love of freedom appear both among towering intellects and among those of far more modest cognitive means?

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Why We Should Repeal the Civil Rights Act

2026-02-16

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2026-02-16

The Civil Rights Act, first passed in 1964, is falsely connected with freedom. In reality, this law severely restricts individual liberty and replaces it with coercive government acts.

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Monetary Decay and Imperial Survival

2026-02-16

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2026-02-16

The American empire—with its global military footprint and permanent war economy—cannot be financed through honest taxation without provoking revolt.

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Challenging the Efficient Market Hypothesis and Fundamentals Analysis

2026-02-16

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2026-02-16

Mainstream economics and finance theories hold that markets immediately adjust to new information. While market prices do reflect available information, the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) fails to explain the boom-bust cycle as well as Austrian analysis.

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A Brief History of the Petite Bourgeoisie

2026-02-16

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2026-02-16

From the Jacksonians to the Marxists, political theorists have understood that there is something unique about "small industry" between big business and propertyless workers.

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Survival of the Least Fit

2026-02-16

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2026-02-16

We now live in a fundamentally altered landscape where old certainties no longer confer fitness.

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Debt, Inflation, and the Illusion of Protection

2026-02-15

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2026-02-15

The boom-and-bust cycle isn’t limited just to so-called advanced economies. It also has become a way of life in the economies of tropical countries and other emerging economies.

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Markets, Manipulation, and Silver-Stacking

2026-02-14

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2026-02-14

A historic metals shakeout, a simple “stacking plan,” and a bigger question: how do you stay independent when the system punishes savers?

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Bitcoin Mining and the Electricity Grid: A Quiet Savior

2026-02-13

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2026-02-13

When we think of the need for more electricity to meet a weather-related surge in demand, we think more generation of power. However, entities like Bitcoin, which is a huge electricity consumer, can also curtail enough operations to put more power back into the grid.

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National Self-Determination and Individual Liberty

2026-02-13

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2026-02-13

Murray Rothbard believed that national self-determination was essential for individual freedom. Rothbard also did not make the error of connecting a nation to a government. One was not the other.

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Understanding Argentina’s Decades of Economic Crises

2026-02-13

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2026-02-13

In his recent address at the Davos Conference, Argentina’s president Javier Milei told those attending why Argentina has had one inflationary crisis after another. Milei says that Austrian economics can end the nightmare.

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Olaudah Equiano’s Manumission: Regulatory Barriers to Freedom

2026-02-13

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2026-02-13

If one man may legally own another, then he should likewise have the right to disown this property. To deny this right by law involves simultaneously affirming the right of one human to own another as his property but not the right to stop owning another human.

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Goldman Sachs top lawyer to step down after lying about Epstein connections

2026-02-13

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2026-02-13

" Her announcement follows the release of documents detailing her often chummy conversations with notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein." She had long claimed to barely know Epstein.

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