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Questioning the Annexation of Texas as a US State

2026-01-05

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2026-01-05

The annexation of Texas was a preview of future foreign policy.

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Do Central Banks Determine Interest Rates?

2026-01-05

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2026-01-05

While most economists believe that central banks set interest rates, in reality, they are set by time preferences of individual actors in the economy. Central bank influences on interest rates ultimately result in setting off boom-and-bust cycles.

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The new president of Venezuela is a socialist who vows opposition to US invasion.

2026-01-05

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2026-01-05

Where is the "duly elected" president we were told about? Turns out none of the US-supported leaders have enough public support to take power.

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Socialist Mamdani Inadvertently Pays Tribute to Capitalism

2026-01-05

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2026-01-05

Zohran Mamdani held his mayoral swearing in ceremony at the now-abandoned City Hall Station that was a feature of the first New York Subway built in 1904. Unfortunately, city officials deliberately drove the subway company into insolvency and then took over.

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Minn. Gov. Tim Walz will not seek re-election in midst of daycare scandal

2026-01-05

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2026-01-05

He was almost VP. Soon he'll be just another "visiting scholar" at a leftwing think tank. Perhaps he can hang out with Liz Cheney.

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Three Key Lessons from the US’s Venezuela Intervention

2026-01-05

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2026-01-05

The US's bombing of Caracas reiterates three key foundations of American foreign policy: the Constitution is dead, democracy is irrelevant, and the "rule of law" doesn't matter.

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The Statism of Donald Trump

2026-01-05

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2026-01-05

From war to tariffs to inflation, it is clear Donald Trump is a devoted disciple of the ideology of statism and interventionism. The fact he's better than the atrocious Kamala Harris doesn't change this.

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The US Government Is Not the Daddy of US Oil Companies

2026-01-05

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2026-01-05

Among the many rationalizations that the Trump administration is using to initiate massive force and violence against the Venezuelan people is that the Venezuelan government nationalized American oil interests many years ago.

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Questioning the Annexation of Texas as a US State

2026-01-05

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2026-01-05

The annexation of Texas was a preview of future foreign policy.

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NYC Cheers Socialism while California Billionaires Run from It

2026-01-05

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2026-01-05

Margaret Thatcher’s famous quote spells doom for new socialist schemes, “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples’ money.”

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Monetary Policy Is Monetary Piracy

2026-01-04

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2026-01-04

Even Milton Friedman—who never supported gold as money—admitted that a monetary system based on gold would “take care of itself.” Instead, our money is created and manipulated by the politicized hand of government and is based on theft.

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Silver’s Growing Pains

2026-01-03

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2026-01-03

$50 wasn’t the finish line. It was the starting gun for policy finger-pointing and real-world bottlenecks.

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4 ways Team Trump reminded us of Bush-Cheney in 2025

2026-01-03

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2026-01-03

Jack Hunter: "From WMDs to bombing Iran, the president who consistently mocked the GWOT is now pushing the same old buttons."

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Trump: We Are in Venezuela Now, and We Are Going to Stay

2026-01-03

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2026-01-03

Trump claimed Washington would pay for the occupation of Venezuela with profits from the country’s oil.

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American Indians: Separating Truth from Fiction

2026-01-03

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2026-01-03

Depending upon the narrative, American Indians were either noble creatures who were victims of a genocide by rapacious European settlers or were bloodthirsty savages. The truth is more nuanced.

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Trump’s National Insecurity Strategy

2026-01-02

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2026-01-02

President Trump’s latest national security initiative is unlikely to make the US secure from outside danger. For that matter, Trump’s own internal policies are making this country less secure.

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Embracing Austrian Economics: A Path Forward for Zimbabwe

2026-01-02

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Ever since independence more than 40 years ago, Zimbabwe has been wracked with socialism, inflation, and corrupt political leadership. Yet, there is a way forward for the nation, if Austrian Economics can be in its future.

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In the New Year, We Will Hear Even More Environmental Doom Because the Doomsday Industry Never Rests

2026-01-02

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2026-01-02

A wearisome part of modern life is the incessant chants of “doomsday” from intellectual, academic, political, and media elites. That their six decades of predictions all have been wrong only leads them to double down on the volume of their claims.

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Assessing Libertarian Foreign Policy: Rothbard vs. Friedman

2026-01-02

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2026-01-02

In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon assesses the “libertarian” foreign policy prescriptions of Murray Rothbard and David Freidman. Naturally, Rothbard’s view—built upon principles of natural law—stands above Freidman’s less-principled “pragmatism.”

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The Panic of 1893: An Austrian View

2026-01-02

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2026-01-02

From an Austrian perspective, the Panic of 1893 provides key lessons, but this consequential panic has not received as much direct attention as it deserves.

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