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Treasury Dept: The US is insolvent

2026-03-23

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2026-03-23

"The U.S. government is insolvent. That’s not hyperbole — it’s the conclusion drawn directly from the Treasury Department’s own consolidated financial statements."

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Who Owns the Bus?

2026-03-21

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2026-03-21

Issues of homelessness and vagrancy in public spaces and on public transportation are made worse because government ownership of the property does not allow for exclusion. Instead, we get the “tragedy of the commons.”

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The Interesting Lies of Samuelson: How We Naively Believed the Case of Giffen Goods

2026-03-21

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2026-03-21

If economics has its Unicorn, it would be the Giffen Good, the good that would seem to defy the Law of Demand. While economists have played around with Giffen Good scenarios, in reality, finding it is even more unlikely than sighting a unicorn.

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Visualizing The Boom-Bust Cycle with Roger Garrison

2026-03-21

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2026-03-21

In memory of Roger Garrison, Bob walks through Garrison's famous capital-based macroeconomics diagrams, showing how they translate the Mises-Hayek theory of the boom-bust cycle into the language of modern macroeconomics.

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War, Gold, and the Fed’s Next Move

2026-03-21

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2026-03-21

Two interviews, two timelines: before and after the Middle East war. Mark Thornton explains what the conflict means for oil, inflation, and why gold and silver still signal deeper trouble ahead.

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From Vienna to Madrid: A Libertarian Vision of Scientific and Moral Truth

2026-03-21

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2026-03-21

The Ludwig von Mises Memorial Lecture, sponsored by Yousif Almoayyed.

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It’s Not Anarcho-Tyranny, It’s Interventionist Non-Intervention

2026-03-20

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2026-03-20

Combining binary and triangular interventions, the state coercively taxes citizens to pay for its services, monopolizes certain services, and then is incentivized to engage in paid non-delivery.

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The Trouble With Public Access to Private Markets

2026-03-20

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2026-03-20

WSJ: "To broaden access to private markets, we should first restore public markets for small and medium-size companies so that all investors have an array of public and private choices."

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Trump’s ill-fated attempt to copy Israel’s ‘mowing the grass’ strategy

2026-03-20

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2026-03-20

Brandan Buck: From Venezuela to Iran, the president thinks he can avoid 'the forever war trap' but that i s exactly what we're going to get.

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Natural Capitalism and its Degeneration

2026-03-20

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2026-03-20

Thanks to massive government intervention, modern capitalism hardly reflects the free market economy built up by entrepreneurs. What matters now in the business world is the access to those with political power.

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AERC 2026

2026-03-20

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2026-03-20

Recordings of the 2026 Austrian Economics Research Conference at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, March 20-21, 2026.

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Bonds Treasury yields climb as bonds sell off and fear grows that Fed rate cuts are off the table

2026-03-20

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2026-03-20

The 10-year Treasury yield — the benchmark for U.S. government borrowing — added nearly 10 basis points to 4.382%....

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Is Trump really planning a ground invasion of Iran?

2026-03-20

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2026-03-20

"[The Pentagon] announced the deployment of 5,000 marines and sailors, as well as USS Tripoli, an amphibious assault ship, to the Middle East, signalling the possibility of a ground operation."

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In the Pink

2026-03-20

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2026-03-20

Do we have free will? Do only a few of us have free will? Does anyone have free will? Thomas Pink tries to answer those questions, and Dr. David Gordon examines his explanations in this week’s Friday Philosophy.

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61% on non-MAGA Republicans support the war

2026-03-20

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2026-03-20

Politico: Support for the war among all Republicans remains solid, even among non-MAGA GOP. Republicans only oppose wars when a Democrat is president.

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Saudi Arabia predicts oil will spike to $180

2026-03-20

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2026-03-20

"I don’t think $150 is out of the question in another month…You start talking about June, I’ll give you $180.”

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It’s Not Anarcho-Tyranny, It’s Interventionist Non-Intervention

2026-03-20

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2026-03-20

Combining binary and triangular interventions, the state coercively taxes citizens to pay for its services, monopolizes certain services, and then is incentivized to engage in paid non-delivery.

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Sterile Money, Fiat Sex: The End of Growth, in One Lesson

2026-03-20

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2026-03-20

Dr. Catherine Pakaluk connects the dots between fiat money, the sexual revolution, and collapsing birthrates, arguing that a culture built on “sterile” choices can’t sustain real, long-run economic growth.

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Remembering Paul Ehrlich (Even If We Would Rather Not)

2026-03-19

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2026-03-19

Neo-Malthusian Paul Ehrlich recently passed away, but not before his false doomsday claims made him a very wealthy man.

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Remembering Paul Ehrlich (Even If We Would Rather Not)

2026-03-19

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2026-03-19

Neo-Malthusian Paul Ehrlich recently passed away, but not before his false doomsday claims made his a very wealthy man.

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