Category Archive: 6b.) Mises.org

The Idiocracy that Is California Politics

If California voters and politicians do not understand the current crisis, we will see the continuous march to perdition as California politicians refuse to acknowledge that they are killing the geese laying the golden eggs.

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Bitcoin falls below $65,000.

Bitcoin is back at November 2021 levels as bullion and big-tech stocks all take a beating in the midst of new disappointing jobs hiring data.

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Don’s Rights Argument Is a Lemon

Needless to say, Don Lemon does not understand the First Amendment, let alone Rothbard’s property rights argument regarding speech.

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Does the US Still Have a Constitution?

"Administrative warrants" embody the new pseudo-law used by federal immigration agents to trample the Bill of Rights.

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Why America’s Two-Party System Will Never Threaten the True Political Elites

There are two kinds of political movements: 1. Those that are “compromising” and pose no real threat to the elites. 2. The groups that actually oppose the status quo but are kept out of power.

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Are the Epstein Files the Chernobyl of the West?

On this episode of Power and Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho discuss the fallout from the release of the Epstein Files and what it means for how the masses view the elite.

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Which to Believe: The Official CPI or Zoe Dippel’s Grocery Receipts?

The Trump administration (like the Biden White House before it) insists that it has inflation under control, pointing to the CPI. However, other informal measures show inflation to be much higher than the CPI claims.

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Trump, Immigration, and ICE

Restoring the rule of law and Constitutional government on immigration—something wrecked by Trump's rule-by-decree with federal agents—is vastly more important than expelling illegal immigrants.

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Trump’s Credit Card Rate Cap Would Hurt the Poor

If card-issuers are blocked from charging interest rates higher than 10 percent for consumers with a poor credit history, these consumers will find out that they have fewer borrowing options.

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A Positive View of Sectional History

In most nations of any size, sectionalism is almost inevitable. How nations handle such divisions, historian Frank L. Owsley, determines if sectionalism is peaceful or becomes violent. It became violent in the US in 1861.

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Why “Affordability” Is the Wrong Term to Describe Effects of Inflation

Politicians are touting “affordability” to describe the current regime of rising prices. However, most lawmakers who claim they are trying to make things more affordable demand policies that make things more costly.

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The Not-So-New Dollar Strategy: Monetize Productivity in Advance

A bad end is most likely though even in the best case scenario of AI increasing living standards. The build-up of asset inflation malinvestment and overleveraging will impose huge costs.

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The Idiocracy that Is California Politics

If California voters and politicians do not understand the current crisis, we will see the continuous march to perdition as California politicians refuse to acknowledge that they are killing the geese laying the golden eggs.

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Have Fiat Money, Will Tyrannize

Thanks to the Federal Reserve, the US government will always have enough printed money to fund its tyrannical schemes.

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The Cost of Living: The Problem Isn’t Too Little Credit, but Too Much

Politicians are touting “affordability” to describe the current regime of rising prices. However, most lawmakers who claim they are trying to make things more affordable demand policies that make things more costly.

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Everyone Agrees Our Elites Are Terrible, So Why Are We Stuck with Them?

The latest release of Epstein files again highlighted how disgusted and frustrated people have grown with the current elites. Yet they remain essentially untouchable. Why?

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The Five Stages of Totalitarianism

Totalitarian societies do not become that way overnight. There are recognizable signs and stages which show how a society slides into that abyss.

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Everyone Agrees Our Elites Are Terrible, So Why Are We Stuck with Them?

The latest release of Epstein files again highlighted how disgusted and frustrated people have grown with the current elites. Yet they remain essentially untouchable. Why?

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Will He, or Won’t He?

For the past month, Americans have been wondering whether President Trump will attack Iran, or whether the massive military build-up in the Middle East is just another bluff.

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The Not-So-New Dollar Strategy: Monetize Productivity in Advance

A bad end is most likely though even in the best case scenario of AI increasing living standards. The build-up of asset inflation malinvestment and overleveraging will impose huge costs.

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