Category Archive: 6b.) Mises.org

Paul Heyne: The Ethicist Who Thought Like an Economist

Was Paul Heyne an ethicist who thought like an economist or was he instead an economist who thought like an ethicist? It was a bit of both. Heyne‘s popular text, The Economic Way of Thinking, educated a lot of students about how economics really works.

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Preparing for War

Why is gold at a record high? How does modern mercantilism fuel today’s tensions? Are we all just pawns in a much bigger game?

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Energy Holodomor

At first glance, it might seem extreme—even offensive—to compare anti-fossil fuel climate policies to Stalin’s deliberate starvation of millions during the Holodomor. But in truth, the comparison may be unfair— to Stalin.

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To Veatch His Own

As a bookend to last week‘s critical article on Thomistic Aristotelianism of Alasdair MacIntyre, Dr. David Gordon in Friday Philosophy scrutinizes the libertarian-tolerant philosopher Henry B. Veatch. Dr. Gordon finds Veatch‘s arguments much more tolerable.

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Musk v. Trump, Trump v. Courts, and Palantir v. Us

On this episode of Power and Market, the group discusses the fallout from Musk's fight with Trump, recent reporting on Palantir contracts, and how the courts are not interested in protecting rights.

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A Different Perspective on Costa Rica’s Traffic Disaster

Traffic jams are so frequent that many Costa Ricans have adjusted their routines to deal with this phenomenon, treating it like a chronic illness.

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What Science Can’t Decide for You: Masks, Data, and Individual Liberty

Modern neoclassical economics is based upon the physical sciences, which Austrian economists recognize is an inappropriate way to explain economic phenomena. Ludwig von Mises recognized this fraudulence, calling it “scientism.”

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Why the US Legacy Media Is Worse than Useless

The so-called White House “coverup” of former President Joe Biden‘s dementia was really a coverup by the legacy media, which worked with White House officials to ensure Americans would not know the truth.

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Fed Beige Book: The Economy In Half of the Nation Is Getting Worse

The Federal Reserve System released its May 2025 Beige Book yesterday, and the Fed has stopped painting a cheerful picture of the US economy.

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A Golden Share Will Not Make America Great Again

Government involvement in our lives is getting more entrenched since Trump took office. He campaigned on the opposite. The result will be economic stagnation, recessions, or even depressions. To ensure a strong economy, government should get out of the way.

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To Make America Free Again

If we really want America to be “great” it must first be free.

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Trump’s Deep State Palantir Pals Run Damage Control for Their Spy Plans



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From Oversight to Monopoly: The Rise of the Accreditation Cartel

Accreditation in higher education began as a private effort to identify academic quality. Then the federal government took over the process and demanded that accreditation be based upon political standards.

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The Myth of Fed Independence

Jonathan Newman joins Ryan McMaken to talk about the history behind the myth of "Fed independence." The Fed has never been politically independent of the US government, and it has enthusiastically helped fund the US government both in wartime and in peacetime.

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Nominalism and Bad Economics

Nominalist ideas influenced the scientific revolution, shaping its departure from metaphysics, its mechanistic perspective, and the mathematization of all sciences. This paradigm has brought about some errors in economic thinking.

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The Federal Judiciary’s War on Trump Is Not About Protecting Us from Government Overreach

As President Trump racks up defeat after defeat before the federal courts, the legacy media claims that federal judges are protecting us from government overreach. In reality, government overreach as we know it has been made possible by the federal judiciary.

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The Optimal Supply of Money: A Simple Argument

How much money does an economy need in circulation to function? Austrians believe that a growing economy does not need a growing supply of money, which sets Austrian economics apart from other schools of economic thought.

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Trump’s Trade Trilemma

While President Trump rails against US trade deficits, he forgets that they are due to the fact that the US dollar is the world‘s reserve currency. This, in turn, encourages deficit spending and a bloated national debt.

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DiLorenzo talks about the Fed on “Behind The Deep State”

Thomas DiLorenzo joins the New American's Alex Newman to discuss " Federal Reserve: The Ultimate Deep State Tool of Control & Destruction"

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Why a Gold Standard is Silently Coming Back to the States

Thomas DiLorenzo joins CapitalCosm to discuss the growing interest in gold at the state level

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