The governmental response to the covid pandemic was to cripple the economy. To compensate for the damage, the Federal Reserve unleashed massive inflation in an attempt to do what the Fed always does in a crisis: bail out the economic actors.
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Category Archive: 6b.) Mises.org
What Will the Next Gold Bust Look Like?
There have been four gold busts under the fiat dollar money regimes since the “freeing” of the gold price in March 1968. Will the current gold boom end in a similar bust?
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Yes, Tariffs Reduce Imports, but They Also Reduce Exports
Bob explains Lerner’s Symmetry Theorem and shows how tariffs ripple through exchange rates, exports, and trade balances—then tests those predictions against today’s Trump-era tariff shocks.
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Iran’s Economy Isn’t Failing; It’s a Plunder Machine
The people of Iran suffer not only from authoritarian rule, but they also are victims of an economy in which the authoritarian rulers engage in central economic planning that is destroying the economy. It’s an economy based upon plunder, not production.
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New Rothbard Letters Show His Early Opposition to both Nixon and Reagan
“I see that you are preparing the groundwork for supporting Nixon,” Rothbard wrote Meyer. “Again, for shame! Is this what conservative principles are coming down to...?"
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How Progressives Broke the Constitution and Praised Themselves for It
The US Constitution as originally written and understood no longer exists. The first wave of “progressives” reinterpreted it to their liking before later generations of progressives finished the job.
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Argentine peso weakens to fresh low despite US interventions
Ridiculously, Treasury Sec Bessent said in a television interview earlier this month that the peso was “undervalued” and he intended to “buy low and sell high.”
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Murray Rothbard on Communism and Cuba
While Murray Rothbard opposed the communist system, he also recognized that Cuba was no threat to the US militarily or economically. That is why he believed the US must recognize Cuba's government and permit trade and travel between the two countries.
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How Progressives Broke the Constitution and Praised Themselves for It
The US Constitution as originally written and understood no longer exists. The first wave of “progressives” reinterpreted it to their liking before later generations of progressives finished the job.
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Economists predict Fed will cut twice more by year end
More inflation coming: the Fed will lower its key interest rate by 25 basis points next week and again in December, according to a Reuters poll.
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It Didn’t Start with Trump
History suggests that abuse of power is an inevitable feature of the modern welfare-warfare-regulatory state.
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We Can’t “Teach” Entrepreneurship, But We Can Inspire Future Entrepreneurs
While it is true that one cannot create entrepreneurs in a classroom setting, it still is important that people how entrepreneurship works. No one explains entrepreneurship better than Austrian economists.
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Will Trump End Sham Democracy Promotions?
The rollback of U.S. meddling in "promoting democracy" is perhaps the most positive foreign-policy reform of the Trump presidency. Column by James Bovard.
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If We Measured the Economy by Quality-of-Life Instead of GDP, We’d Be In a Depression
The obsession with measuring aggregate GDP obscures how the real standard of living for many people has declined.
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Silver: London Calling
The white metal’s price chaos of the last week has many similarities with the 1980 Hunt Brothers’ squeeze.
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What Will the Next Gold Bust Look Like?
There have been four gold busts under the fiat dollar money regimes since the “freeing” of the gold price in March 1968. Will the current gold boom end in a similar bust?
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Government Science Is an Oxymoron
Many Americans are convinced that only government can provide useful science since government is supposed to be “neutral,” not corrupted by profit seeking. However, politics corrupts science research more than anything else.
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Popular Media, Romanticism, and the Statist Insinuation
Popular views of capitalism and free markets are not shaped by the facts, but rather by anti-capitalist intellectuals and the media.
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SNB Sight Deposits: decreased by 15 billion francs compared to the previous four weeks
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2025-07-31 – Interim results of the Swiss National Bank as at 30 June 2025
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