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Why Most of the World Isn’t on Board with the NATO-Russia War

2023-03-28

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2023-03-28

As the war in Ukraine drags on into its second year, protest demonstrations have been taking place in major European cities. They express the growing sentiment that the people are tired of the protracted conflict and fearful of what could come should the war continue even longer. Memories of the catastrophic world wars that ravaged Europe in the first half of the last century and the terrible threat of nuclear annihilation that divided the...

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Is the Fed Trying to Bail Out the World? Sure Looks Like It

2023-03-28

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2023-03-28

The collapse of Swiss banking giant Credit Suisse recently was a catastrophe long in the making. A quick perusal of the bank’s financial statements from recent years shows that we’re dealing with something analogous to a classic bank run. Credit Suisse’s pool of liquid assets declined more than 50 percent from 2021 to 2022, mostly in October 2022, from CHF 229.9 billion to CHF 118.5 billion as depositors withdrew their money. Despite the timing,...

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To Fight the State, Build Alternatives to the State

2023-03-28

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2023-03-28

Throughout its history, liberalism—the ideology today called “classical liberalism” or “libertarianism”—has suffered from the impression that it is primarily against things. This is not entirely wrong. Historically, liberalism coalesced as a recognizable and coherent ideology in opposition largely to mercantilism and absolutism throughout Western Europe. Over time, this opposition extended to socialism, protectionism, imperialism, aggressive...

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Graceann Bennett: Brands Are Value-Generating Assets, Marketing Is Just Tactics

2023-03-28

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2023-03-28

Peter Drucker famously identified the only two value-generating functions of the firm as innovation and marketing. We propose to differentiate brand building (or branding) from marketing, especially in this digital age. Brands are the vehicle for framing, establishing, nurturing and enhancing relationships with customers. In the digital age, marketing has become mechanized and mathematicised; it’s about numbers more than about human values and...

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American Dissident: The Legacy of Murray Rothbard

2023-03-28

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2023-03-28

Murray Rothbard was an elite economist, historian, and avowed enemy of the state. His legacy lives on nearly three decades after his untimely passing. Original Article: "American Dissident: The Legacy of Murray Rothbard" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon.

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Bipartisanship Is Not a Substitute for Voluntary Exchange

2023-03-28

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2023-03-28

Besides using bipartisan comprehensive political reform as a cover for evasion and extortion, the many political abuses of posturing, window dressing, and maneuvering enabled do not exhaust the problems involved. Those problems are, instead, far more comprehensive, especially when it comes to the amount of usable information that is accessible, including accurate information about the true costs of government programs. As Ludwig von Mises,...

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ESG En Route to Etatism

2023-03-27

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2023-03-27

The Henry Hazlitt Memorial Lecture, sponsored by Harvey and Mei Allison. Recorded at the 2023 Austrian Economics Research Conference hosted at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, March 16–18, 2023. [embedded content] The Austrian Economics Research Conference is the international, interdisciplinary meeting of the Austrian School, bringing together leading scholars doing research in this vibrant and influential intellectual tradition....

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No, We Don’t Need More Nuclear Weapons

2023-03-27

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2023-03-27

Advocates for more military spending tell us the taxpayer must pay to expand the US's nuclear arsenal.  Because of China. In truth, the US's arsenal is in no danger of not "keeping up." Original Article: "No, We Don't Need More Nuclear Weapons" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon.

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Does Cost Cutting Undermine Economic Growth?

2023-03-27

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2023-03-27

Keynesian economists claim that cost cutting by companies in order to protect profits can lead to an economic slump. They believe that if everyone tries to cut costs, demand from retrenched workers for goods and services weakens, and as a result corporate revenues and profits come under pressure. This necessitates new layoffs, and the downward spiral accelerates. Popular thinking presents economic activity as a circular flow of money: spending by...

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Defending Private Property: Principles of Justice in Rothbard’s Ethics of Liberty

2023-03-27

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2023-03-27

The Murray N. Rothbard Memorial Lecture, sponsored by Steven and Cassandra Torello. Recorded at the 2023 Austrian Economics Research Conference hosted at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, March 16–18, 2023. [embedded content] The Austrian Economics Research Conference is the international, interdisciplinary meeting of the Austrian School, bringing together leading scholars doing research in this vibrant and influential intellectual...

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Why Fractional Reserve Banking Is behind Bank Failures

2023-03-27

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2023-03-27

Drug addicts suffer major withdrawal symptoms when they go cold turkey. In the case of high-tech startups and their banks (like Silicon Valley Bank), the super-low-interest-rate stimulant has been taken away by the drug dealer (the Fed) via interest rate hikes. With cheap credit drying up, firms switched to pulling cash out of SVB, all while the same interest rate increases caused the value of SVB’s assets to fall. SVB’s balance sheet couldn’t...

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The Bank of England: Money Creation in Their Own Words

2023-03-27

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2023-03-27

Central banks usually don't admit their guilt in the destruction of money, but the Bank of England unwittingly comes clean. Original Article: "The Bank of England: Money Creation in Their Own Words" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon.

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The Last Lie Government Will Ever Tell

2023-03-27

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2023-03-27

The more powerful a government, the more likely it is to engage in war and conquest. Case in point: US involvement in Ukraine. In 2014 the US led a coup that displaced a “democratically elected” president, Viktor Yanukovych. In November 2013, . . . Yanukovych rejected a major economic deal he had been negotiating with the EU and decided to accept a $15 billion Russian counteroffer instead. That decision gave rise to antigovernment demonstrations...

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Socialism Isn’t about Creating Economies. It Is about Amassing Political Power

2023-03-26

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2023-03-26

Most socialists are not misguided about how to have a prosperous economy, for that is not their goal. Original Article: "Socialism Isn't about Creating Economies. It Is about Amassing Political Power" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon.

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Influencers and Subjective Value: They Have Something to Teach Us

2023-03-25

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2023-03-25

The latest from the world of social media is the role of "influencers." There is a perfectly good economic explanation for their popularity. Original Article: "Influencers and Subjective Value: They Have Something to Teach Us" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon.

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How Banking Could Work

2023-03-25

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2023-03-25

With commercial banks exposed by the recent bailouts, Americans question whether “their money” is truly safe despite the promises of FDIC insurance. Jeff and Bob walk through the mechanics of how a full reserve bank could work in a truly free market based on the concepts and taxonomy of Mises’s Theory of Money and Credit. Mises's A Theory of Money and Credit: Mises.org/TMC Bob's study guide to A Theory of Money and Credit: Mises.org/HAP388a John...

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Inflation Can Get Much Worse

2023-03-25

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2023-03-25

In this episode, Mark looks at the far away minor issue of the impact of hyperinflation in Zimbabwe. Even though they have switched from Zim dollars to US dollars, ordinary people are still suffering. Their government and its inflationary monetary policy is manifesting itself in some interesting ways. Be sure to follow Minor Issues at Mises.org/MinorIssues.

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Democracy Created Canada’s Lethal Healthcare System

2023-03-25

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2023-03-25

The provision of private healthcare in Canada is contingent on the ability of private actors to satisfy all of the conditions embedded within government legislation. However, the severity of these conditions means that most aspects of private healthcare are essentially outlawed, as they have been for many decades. Perhaps that wouldn’t matter if the government kept the promise it made to Canadians when it arbitrarily imposed universal healthcare...

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The Myth of “Economic Power”

2023-03-25

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2023-03-25

A very common criticism of the libertarian position runs as follows: Of course we do not like violence, and libertarians perform a useful service in stressing its dangers. But you are very simpliste because you ignore the other significant forms of coercion exercised in society—private coercive power, apart from the violence wielded by the State or the criminal. The government should stand ready to employ its coercion to check or offset this...

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Climate Activism: The Second Children’s Crusade

2023-03-24

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2023-03-24

Modern secular society embraces a new religion complete with prophets, crusaders, commandments, contrition, and even a holy land: East Anglia, United Kingdom. These congregants will behave idiosyncratically in the economy. The activist green movement increasingly parallels Western religious structure, even generating a modern version of the medieval Children’s Crusade. Motivated by hope, the first Children’s Crusade assembled in 1212 under the...

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