Category Archive: 6b.) Mises.org

New Additions to the Leveller Anthologies at the David M. Hart Archives



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Without Government-Subsidized Industries, Employment Growth Would be Negative



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The Goldberg Variations

In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon reviews Bruce Goldberg's Why Schools Fail and finds much to like. Not surprisingly, elite progressive “experts” have ruined education just as they have ruined just about everything else.

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The Bureaucratization of Science Is a Feature, Not a Bug

As Murray Rothbard warned decades ago, government-sponsored science is simply an extension of the bureaucracy used by the regime to force its policies on others. This is not an accident or anomaly; it is how government works.

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A Closer Look at John C. Calhoun

When it comes to the great political economist John C. Calhoun, most people love him or hate him. In this episode, economic historian Patrick Newman joins us to take a more balanced look at Calhoun, his origins as a War Hawk and nationalist, and why he was never a true Jeffersonian.

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Announcing a Special Issue of the QJAE

The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics invites submissions for a special issue commemorating the centennial of the founding of the Austrian Institute for Business Cycle Research, founded in 1927 by Mises and directed by Hayek. Guest editors are Per Bylund and Jonathan Newman.

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Keynes’s Intellectual Dishonesty and Chartalism

A. Mitchell Innes—a chartalist pioneer—wrote a pamphlet “What Is Money?” (1913) which found a credulous and ideologically sympathetic audience in J. M. Keynes.

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Dr. Peter Klein on International Law and “Might Makes Right”

Bob talks with Dr. Peter Klein about the recent U.S. operation in Venezuela and the social-media backlash against “international law,” using it as a springboard to clarify what law is, how it can exist without a world government, and why Austrians care about polycentric legal orders.

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Defense Services on the Free Market

"A truly free market is totally incompatible with the existence of a State, an institution that presumes to 'defend' person and property by itself subsisting on the unilateral coercion against private property known as taxation."

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Bait-and-Switch: Victims of the LA Wildfires Find That Local Government Wants Them Gone

People who lost their homes last year in the LA wildfires are finding government roadblocks to rebuilding, due to systems put in place by progressives. And nothing will change.

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Gold price hits record $4,641 as uncertainty persists

"Gold, which does not yield interest, typically performs well in periods of low interest rates and heightened ⁠uncertainty."

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The United States v. Jerome Powell

On this episode of Power and Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho discuss the reported probe into Fed Chair Jerome Powell. Is this actual accountability for malfeasance, or a petty battle of DC egos? At the end of the day, does the difference matter? And should Powell be encouraged that central banks around the world are …

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Why Have Homes Become So Unaffordable?

Housing prices in the US are officially off the charts. But why is that the case, as it wasn’t that long ago that homes were affordable. Like all other economic crises, this one has its roots in government policies.

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Why We Need the Gold Standard

Rothbard aimed at something substantially more radical than Mises. Murray wanted a complete free market in money, with no government involvement whatever.

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The Myth of a Self-Financed Fed

The Fed’s cost overruns in its building renovation project supposedly are not borne by taxpayers because, as the myth goes, the Fed is “self-financing.” However, the Fed’s “earnings” come from interest payments from the government, payments made by...taxpayers.

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Will Trump Destroy NATO with a Greenland Invasion?

If NATO members aren't even safe from other NATO members then what value is the alliance? There is one good thing that could come out of a Greenland war: it would probably destroy NATO.

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Why “Good Money” Always Disappears When “Bad Money” Is Circulated

Gresham’s Law isn’t about greed or bad behavior. It describes rational decision-making under fixed rules.

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Bait-and-Switch: Victims of the LA Wildfires Find That Local Government Wants Them Gone

People who lost their homes last year in the LA wildfires are finding government roadblocks to rebuilding, due to systems put in place by progressives. And nothing will change.

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Trump Wants $500 Billion More for the Pentagon As Deficits Mount

Trump ways he wants to spend half a trillion more dollars on military spending, even as federal spending persists at Biden-era levels and interest on the debt climbs ever upward.

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Central bankers of the world declare “full solidarity” with Jerome Powell

In the Powell v Trump feud, the world's central bankers support Powell. This is not surprising since central banks coordinate policy to benefit the global banker class.

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