The US fiat monetary regime not only has given us inflation and boom-and-bust cycles, but it also is the main contributor to the out-of-control government spending and debt accumulation.
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Category Archive: 6b.) Mises.org
Is Deflation Bad for the Economy?
The standard line among most economists is that deflation is as bad or even worse than inflation. In reality, the economy needs deflation now more than ever.
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The Bad News from the Latest Employment Report
Ryan McMaken looks at the latest jobs numbers form the federal government and why so many workers and families appear to think the economy is in trouble.
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73 percent of non-affiliated voters oppose Iran War
Overall, 64 percent of respondents sad that Trump’s decision to go to war with Iran was the wrong decision.
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Why Stable Systems Fail: The Illusion of Institutional Control
Systems do not collapse when they finally become unstable; they appear stable until the moment their failure can no longer be ignored.
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Rerum Novarum: A Catholic Defense of Private Property
Those who use Catholic social teaching to defend socialism forget Pope Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum, published in 1891, which strongly condemned socialism and defended private property.
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When a Society Chooses Freedom in an Unfree World
What might be the process of a society moving from being unfree to being free? Here is one scenario.
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Predicting Recession
The Shiller CAPE ratio has only been higher once in 150 years. The Buffett indicator is 2.5 standard deviations above trend. 40% of the S&P 500 is in just ten stocks. Wall Street sees nothing wrong.
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Price Inflation Accelerates as Wars and Deficits Expand
Last week's CPI report, and this week's PPI report both showed price inflation surging to multi-year highs, and not just on oil prices.
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Hobbes’s Self-Defeating Theory
With some simple logic and using Hobbes’s own presuppositions and arguments, we can internally critique Hobbes’s argument for the state, namely, that the state solves none of the problems he presents.
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When the President Acts Like a Mafia Chief
Despite the fact that the government owes firms refunds due to Trump's tariffs being declared illegal, companies are turning down the opportunity in fear of angering the president.
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The Hypocrisy of the West’s Abandonment of Universal Values
The current strain of illiberalism running through western thought conflicts with the themes of individual liberty and liberalism that also came from western thinkers. We need to recover those best ideas from antiquity to the present.
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Egalitarianism and Value-Free Economics
Dr. Wanjiru Njoya argues that Rothbard's political philosophy is not a sideshow to his economics but its essential second pillar, and that this integrated system is precisely what is needed to challenge the egalitarian premise at its root.
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Why Rothbard Is as Relevant as Ever
Murray Rothbard is one of the all-time greats in Austrian economics and libertarianism. When studying his achievements, we immediately see that Rothbard is a giant whose shoulders free-market scholars should aspire to stand on.
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Defending Southern Heritage
In this week’s Friday Philosophy, David Gordon reviews Jeff Paulk’s Defending Southern Heritage.
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Trump Touts Police-State Corp Palantir to Drive up Stock Price
"President Donald Trump scooped up shares of surveillance-state software maker Palantir weeks before he famously praised the stock on Truth Social."
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The GOP Fiscal Follies
While Republicans have promised robust economic growth to accompany their tax cuts, reality has been different. That is because Republicans increased government spending at the same time, dragging down the economy.
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30-yr Bond at Highest Yield Since 2007 as Inflation Expectations Soar
Auction bidders are demanding higher fixed rates as compensation for the risk that inflation will accelerate further.
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On Swiss National Bank
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SNB Sight Deposits: increased by 3.8 billion francs compared to the previous week
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Household wealth in 2025
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Heads up for NZD and CHF traders, RBNZ Gov Breman and SNB Chair Schlegel to speak
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Swiss franc appreciation has led to tighter monetary conditions – SNB minutes
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SNB’s Chairman Schlegel: A few months of negative inflation wouldn’t be a problem
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