Category Archive: 6b.) Mises.org

Peaceful Nationalism as a Foundation for Economic Liberalism

Ludwig von Mises Mises argues in Nation, State, and Economy that nationalism is compatible with economic and political liberty if it is peaceful, based on self-determination as an individual right.

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God Bless Captain Vere: When Constitutional Duty Yields to Institutional Power

With President Trump demanding people in the armed forces as well as in other government offices do his bidding no matter what the law might be, it is time for people to learn the lesson of Captain Vere.

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Tucker Carlson apologizes for endorsing Trump

" I want to say I’m sorry for misleading people, and it was not intentional. That’s all I’ll say.”

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Is Iran Negotiating Badly?

The US's non-Israel Middle Eastern allies (i.e., the Gulf dictatorship states) apparently still are not concerned that an all-out US attack would be bad news for the Gulf states.

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Why Jerome Powell — not Trump — will decide when the Fed chief steps down

" Jerome Powell has said that he would serve as 'chair pro tem' until his successor is confirmed. So Powell could sue, suggesting that he, not Miran, is chair. It's quite messy..."

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Who Pays the Hormuz Toll?

According to Rothbard’s first law of incidence, “ no tax can be shifted forward.” That is, the person or company paying the tax cannot make the buyer pay the tax.

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Raico, Ekirch, and the Tragedy of American Militarism

In dealing with the question of why the United States, a country founded on liberty, turned into a militaristic behemoth, Ralph Raico looked to the work of historian Arthur Ekirch for answers.

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Fed-Chair Nominee Warsh faces Senate hearing this morning

“ The problem that I have here is that we had some U.S. attorney … thinking it would be cute to bring Chair Powell under an investigation just a few months before the position was going to be open.”

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When Legal Methods Become Rhetoric

Brazilian jurisprudence is tampering with legal discourse from two distinct traditions: proportionality and reasonableness.

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Trump Is Driving Gold Crazy, Along with the Rest of the World

President Trump’s erratic actions have created uncertainty in the gold markets, and just about everywhere else, and there is no end in sight.

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Four-Letter Economic Words

Economics has its own four-letter words. Although they are not obscene, socialists and statists would find them so.

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Government Policies, Not “Monopolies,” Undermine the Economy

Whenever there is an economic problem, politicians in knee-jerk response blame private monopolies. The problem isn’t monopolies; the problem is government.

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Four-Letter Economic Words

Economics has its own four-letter words. Although they are not obscene, socialists and statists would find them so.

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The Hyperreality of the State

The market has one essential property: it remains connected to reality.

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When AI Agents Trade with AI Agents, Price Discovery Dies

The notion that AI can take over an economy is fantasy. A market economy is not made up of competing algorithms but rather sets of prices that lead to discovery.

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What 1971 Set in Motion

The boom-bust cycle is not a mystery. Understanding why requires grappling honestly with what the last fifty years produced.

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Mark Thornton on the “Synthetic Boom”

What looks like market strength may be a delayed reckoning. Mark Thornton explains the signals, the Fed’s playbook, and where the next bust is likely to hit first.

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Jesus and the Christian Socialist’s Problem of Evil

Those who invoke Jesus for socialism face a tension: if the power to end suffering creates a moral obligation, then the Jesus who healed many but not all appears, by that standard, either unwilling or unable.

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Jesus and the Christian Socialist’s Problem of Evil

Those who invoke Jesus for socialism face a tension: if the power to end suffering creates a moral obligation, then the Jesus who healed many but not all appears, by that standard, either unwilling or unable.

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Uncovering Gold’s Secret History

Far from being what Keynes called that “barbarous relic,” gold has been important throughout history, and to the present day. Joakim Book reviews The Secret History of Gold: Myth, Money, Politics & Power.

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