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“Victory Plan” or Deadly Delusion? Zelensky’s Perilous Five-Point Plan

2024-11-01

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2024-11-01

It’s finally here: Ukrainian Volodymyr Zelensky’s “Victory Plan,” furtively touted for weeks as Zelensky sought, unsuccessfully, to peddle it to world leaders. Until now, all that Zelensky would say in public was that this clandestine plan paradoxically would not require negotiation with Putin, but also provides a way to strengthen Ukraine in order to “push Putin” to diplomatically end the war. Tone deaf in the extreme, several weeks ago Zelensky...

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Gold Is Back—And So Is Judy Shelton

2024-10-31

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2024-10-31

Gold is on the rise, and so is the typical gold-standard nostalgia that has erupted every time price inflation, banking crises, and/or debt concerns have reappeared after the fall of the Bretton Woods gold-exchange standard in 1971. Certainly, the precious metal’s ascent, as usual, is signaling that all is not well.Earlier this year, the precious metal soared past $2500 an ounce to all-time price highs, making it one of the best-performing assets...

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What Will You Do When Kamala (or Trump) Wins?

2024-10-31

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2024-10-31

What is the Mises Institute? The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property...

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The Establishment Media is Unaware of Its Growing Irrelevance

2024-10-31

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2024-10-31

What is the Mises Institute? The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property...

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Voting Against Fascism

2024-10-31

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2024-10-31

What is the Mises Institute? The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property...

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The Reactionary Containment in the 2024 Election

2024-10-31

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2024-10-31

On September 29, 2024, President Trump posted on X the Catholic prayer of St. Michael the Archangel alongside a photo of a St. Michael painting by Italian artist Guido Reni. The next day, Russell Brand and Jordan Peterson said the Lord’s Prayer over a crowd in Washington, D.C. Although social conservatism has been a touch-and-go tactic for Republicans in elections, it’s incredibly useful to use when trying to mobilize Christian groups, but has...

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How Intellectual Property Laws Stifle Innovation

2024-10-31

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2024-10-31

Innovation has long been considered the lifeblood of human progress, driving advancements in technology, medicine, and countless other fields that improve our quality of life. At its core, the “right to innovate” represents the freedom to experiment, develop, and implement new ideas without undue restrictions. This right encompasses the ability to access foundational knowledge, collaborate with others, and disseminate discoveries for the benefit of...

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Government vs. Crypto: Who Controls the Future?

2024-10-30

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2024-10-30

What is the Mises Institute? The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order.

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The Regime Thinks Free Speech is “Fanaticism”

2024-10-30

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2024-10-30

The freedom of speech is today threatened in the West to a degree not seen since the nineteenth-century classical liberals battled the censorious police states of the old conservative regimes. The free-market liberals largely won that battle, yet everywhere that a ruling class knows it is both unpopular and outnumbered it will attempt to silence free speech. A common argument used by those who cling to illegitimate power is the claim that free...

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Will Tuesday’s Vote Counts Be Another Sham Biden-Harris Statistic?

2024-10-30

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2024-10-30

If Kamala Harris wins the presidential election on Tuesday, Americans will be told that the final vote count is a sacred number that was practically handed down from Mt. Sinai engraved on a stone tablet. Any American who casts doubt on Harris’s victory will be vilified like one of those January 6, 2021 protestors sent to prison for “parading without a permit” in the US Capitol. Actually, anyone who doubted the 2020 election results was being...

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Is Trump Literally Hitler?

2024-10-30

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2024-10-30

What is the Mises Institute? The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property...

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Axis of Evil: America’s Three Worst Presidents

2024-10-30

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2024-10-30

The Siena College Research Institute, the American Political Science Association, and C-SPAN all publish rankings of American presidents by “mainstream” historians, political scientists, and other “presidential experts.” Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt usually alternate in first and second place, but occasionally George Washington will come in second. In the past several years, Donald Trump has been ranked dead last in all of them while...

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What “Capitalism” Really Means

2024-10-30

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2024-10-30

Grace Blakeley is a self-described socialist economist and author in the UK, appearing on shows like Politics Live, JOE Politics, and Novara Media. Grace throws down the proverbial gauntlet to self-described capitalists who often find themselves falling over their own logic. This should not be surprising since the “capitalists” that she often debates usually have a conservative worldview that is littered with its own inconsistencies, so socialists...

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What Has the Federal Reserve Done to Our Money?

2024-10-30

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2024-10-30

What is the Mises Institute? The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property...

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Politics, Economics, and US History

2024-10-30

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2024-10-30

What is the Mises Institute? The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property...

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Is Trumpism Fascism?

2024-10-30

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2024-10-30

What is the Mises Institute? The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property...

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The Healthy Democracy of Inconsequential Elections

2024-10-30

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2024-10-30

“Jeremy Bentham however pointed out that the use even of a single name may imply a Petitio Principii [Question-Begging Epithet].”—W. Stanley JevonsJevons continues,Similarly in Parliament a bill is often opposed on the ground that it is unconstitutional and therefore ought to be rejected; but as no precise definition can be given of what is or is not constitutional, it means little more than that the measure is distasteful to the...

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The Establishment Media is Unaware of its Growing Irrelevance

2024-10-30

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2024-10-30

Last week, the news media went ballistic after the owners of the Los Angeles Times and Washington Post blocked each paper’s editorial boards from formally endorsing Kamala Harris for president. The Times editorial editor resigned in protest. Two other members of the editorial board followed her lead. Two Washington Post columnists resigned as well to signal their disapproval of the move, and many readers from both publications have reportedly...

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Trump Fascism?

2024-10-29

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2024-10-29

What is the Mises Institute? The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property...

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Failure Is Government’s Success

2024-10-29

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2024-10-29

What is the Mises Institute? The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property...

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