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Biden’s Executive Order on Equity: It Will Create Greater Inequality

2023-03-06

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2023-03-06

On February 16, 2023, President Joe Biden issued his second executive order to strengthen equity within federal agencies. Among other things, it ordered them to install equity officers and implement action plans with the superficial aim of making it easier for “underserved communities” to access federal resources. Although there is plenty of commentary on the specific content of the new order, that is not what this article is about. Rather, the...

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Loss of Religious Belief Is a Greater Loss for a Civilized Society

2023-03-05

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2023-03-05

Secularists cheer the decline of religion in Western societies, but that loss comes at a huge cost: the decline of civilization itself. Original Article: "Loss of Religious Belief Is a Greater Loss for a Civilized Society" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon.

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China’s Emerging Global Leadership Isn’t Just the Result of Subsidies: Entrepreneurship Still Matters in This Market

2023-03-04

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2023-03-04

It is easy to dismiss Chinese advancements in electric vehicles as the result of government subsidies, but private entrepreneurship also is playing a major role. Original Article: "China's Emerging Global Leadership Isn't Just the Result of Subsidies: Entrepreneurship Still Matters in This Market" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon.

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Artificial Intelligence Can Serve Entrepreneurs and Markets

2023-03-04

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2023-03-04

In our technocratic age, it is easy to dismiss the latest technological developments as an avenue toward freedom, but some of them still bode well for markets. Original Article: "Artificial Intelligence Can Serve Entrepreneurs and Markets" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon.

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The Fed’s “Disinflation” Story Just Flew Out the Window

2023-03-04

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2023-03-04

Mark talks about the recent price inflation reports, as well as reports of job openings from private sector job placement companies. Inflation was higher than expected and job openings declined. What will the Fed do? People are making painful adjustments—Domino's reported disappointing sales, because their customers are "eating in". Be sure to follow Minor Issues at Mises.org/MinorIssues.

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Austrian Economics Stands against the Collectivism of Progressive Thought

2023-03-04

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2023-03-04

Recently, I published an article in the Mises Wire, “Woke Egalitarianism and the Elites,” in which I presented the true intentions behind woke egalitarianism. The article also described how elites attempt to rebuild society through collectivism. But more than discussing the goals of progressivism, we need to discuss the intellectual basis of these attempts. What assumptions and intellectual framework guide these actions? Progressivism is based on a...

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Altruism vs. Materialism in Market Exchange

2023-03-04

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2023-03-04

[Excerpted from chapter 6 "Antimarket Ethics: A Praxeological Critique" of Power and Market.] One of the most common charges levelled against the free market (even by many of its friends) is that it reflects and encourages unbridled “selfish materialism.” Even if the free market—unhampered capitalism—best furthers man's “material” ends, critics argue, it distracts man from higher ideals. It leads man away from spiritual or intellectual...

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Losing Control of Money

2023-03-04

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2023-03-04

With global worldwide debt now over $300 trillion and interest rates rising, the US dollar is once again a relative safe haven in a slowing economy. Currencies competing with the Dollar face a deadly race to stave off a sovereign debt crisis. Is the dollar now unbound, as the dominant political tool of the dominant nation? The Dollar Milkshake Theory: Mises.org/HAP385a Thorsten Polleit, The Global Currency Plot: Mises.org/HAP385b Bob's book,...

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When Military Strategy Ignores Economics: The Sad Story of Rear Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan

2023-03-03

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2023-03-03

It is a great tragedy that many modern military leaders and strategists do not understand economics. If they did, I suspect that there would be a lot less war, a lot less military spending, and a lot less wastefulness. Certainly, there would be greater awareness of the appalling human and economic costs of war in a capitalist age. Ludwig von Mises, the great Austrian economist, understood this point well. In his 1927 book Liberalism, he noted that...

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Biden versus Bastiat

2023-03-03

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2023-03-03

President Biden's recent call to "buy American" is doomed to failure, just like all other protectionist schemes. Original Article: "Biden versus Bastiat" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon.

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Once More unto the Veatch

2023-03-03

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2023-03-03

Human Rights: Fact or Fancy?by Henry B. VeatchLSU Press, 1985; xii + 258 pp. Henry Veatch was one of the foremost philosophers of the twentieth century, though sadly neglected by most contemporary analytic philosophers. He was a resolute defender of Aristotelian ethics against rival ethical systems, and in this week’s column, I’d like to look at an argument which he deploys against these rivals in his book Human Rights: Fact or Fancy? The argument...

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Secession: Should the American Revolutionaries Have Quit to Appease the Loyalists?

2023-03-03

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2023-03-03

Opponents of secession say secession is wrong if some people in the population don't want it and say they will be worse off. The American revolutionaries disagreed and seceded anyway. Original Article: "Secession: Should the American Revolutionaries Have Quit to Appease the Loyalists?" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon.

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Public Transit Projects Are the Perfect Recipe for Financial Disaster

2023-03-03

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2023-03-03

The largest urban mass-transit systems across the US are entering an all too familiar point in their long history: another looming financial disaster caused by financial mismanagement and the consequences of covid. No urban transit system exemplifies this problem more than the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) in New York. Ridership in New York has not rebounded to precovid levels, and the MTA is projected to have a funding gap of $1.6...

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The Impossibility of Equality

2023-03-02

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2023-03-02

[Excerpt from chapter 7 of Power and Market in Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market, pp. 1308–12.] Probably the most common ethical criticism of the market economy is that it fails to achieve the goal of equality. Equality has been championed on various “economic” grounds, such as minimum social sacrifice or the diminishing marginal utility of money (see the chapter on taxation above). But in recent years economists have recognized that...

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Poor People in Developing Countries Find Alternatives to Commercial Banking

2023-03-02

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2023-03-02

People are innovative—if government doesn't get in the way. Entrepreneurs in developing countries find alternatives for people cut off from commercial banking services. Original Article: "Poor People in Developing Countries Find Alternatives to Commercial Banking" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon.

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The Coming Recession Will Be a Global One

2023-03-02

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2023-03-02

Over one hundred years ago, Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises discovered what causes the boom-bust business cycle. As Mises explained, the boom is caused by central and commercial banks creating money out of thin air. This lowers interest rates, which encourages businesses to borrow this newly created money to fund capital-intensive investment projects. The bust is caused when the money creation process slows. It is then that businesses discover...

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One Year Later in Ukraine: Washington and NATO Got It Very Wrong

2023-03-02

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2023-03-02

It’s been a year since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In spite of claims from the regime and its media allies that Russia was the next Third Reich and would soon roll through half of Europe, it turns out that was never even remotely true. In fact, things have unfolded more or less just like we predicted here at mises.org: the Russians aren’t even close to occupying any place in Europe beyond eastern Ukraine. It’s not Munich 1938. Economic...

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When the Private Sector Is the Enemy

2023-03-02

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2023-03-02

Rest in peace, "technolibertarianism." There was a time when many believed tech entrepreneurs would usher in a new era of freedom. Unfortunately, the new tech elites are technocratic collaborators with the regime. Original Article: "When the Private Sector Is the Enemy" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon.

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Debunked: “Red States Are Just Welfare Queens”

2023-03-02

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2023-03-02

This episode of Radio Rothbard revisits a point in our previous episode about the popular claim on leftwing Twitter that red-state America would be a "third world country" without support from the federal government. Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop discuss Ryan's recent article on the topic, as well as the legacy of populist politics, and the unseen consequences of uniparty addiction to DC money. Recommended Reading "No, Red...

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Saudi Arabia’s Quandary: The End of the Petrodollar

2023-03-02

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2023-03-02

In 1971 Richard Nixon took the US off the last feeble vestiges of the gold standard, otherwise known as the Bretton Woods Agreement. That system had been a bizarre gold-dollar hybrid where the dollar was the world reserve currency but the US agreed to keep the dollar backed by gold. Henry Hazlitt’s book From Bretton Woods to World Inflation explains the consequences of this situation well. The end of this system left a vacuum at the heart of world...

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