While it wouldn’t solve everything, a gold audit would be a step towards sound money.
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Category Archive: 6b.) Mises.org
Thanksgiving Is a Celebration of Free Enterprise
The first English settlers in America learned a hard lesson about socialist economics in the early years of their new colonies as they faced starvation. Once they embraced free enterprise, however, they had something to be thankful for.
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The Perils of Our Bubblicious World
The worst bubble in human history is the government spending bubble, up from about 8 percent of GDP in 1900 to about 40 percent of GDP today. Column by Christopher Chantrill.
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A Real Ukraine Peace Plan
It is unimaginably cruel to demand that Ukraine keep fighting our proxy war down to the last Ukrainian.
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What Have the Inflation-Mongers Wrought?
At 3 percent inflation over an 80-year lifetime, prices will multiply by a factor of more than 10. A dollar will become nine cents, but we would be told that “inflation is stable.”
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Delistings Jump 28% as Sellers Pull Homes Off Market Rather Than Settle For Low Prices
Realtors seem to think that rage-quitting the market will somehow make prices go up. Things won't go the way they hope.
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No, You’re Not Hurting the Economy by Saving Money
As the economy worsens, expect to see more articles from legacy media about how saving money is actually bad for the economy. It's an old Keynesian myth.
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Government Chains Are Shackling Europe
Europe’s eye-watering tax levels are a leading cause of stagnation of European economies, as well as the symptom par excellence of statist gluttony.
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How 50-Year Mortgages Turn Home Owners into Renters
50-year mortgages are likely to increase the likelihood of more "owners" becoming underwater and walking away from their mortgages. This will lead to more bailouts for the financial sector. Taxpayers will pay the price.
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Study: Israeli Forces Likely Killed More Than 100,000 Palestinians in Gaza
The research aligns with two other studies on the Gaza death toll, which have found the real number of violent deaths is likely around 40% higher than what the Gaza Health Ministry has reported.
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CBS reports that Ukraine accepts the new peace proposal
"The Ukrainians have agreed to the peace deal," the U.S. official told CBS News. "There are some minor details to be sorted out but they have agreed to a peace deal."
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Families Are the Key to Building Alternatives to the State
From the perspective of the state, the ideal society is one composed of single parents raising a small number of children in irreligious households.
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Electricity Prices Rise as A.I. Data Centers Proliferate
AI data centers are key: Data centers are expected to consume anywhere from 6.7% to 12% of total U.S. electricity by 2028, up from 4.4% in 2023.
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Thanksgiving: Celebrating the Birth of American Free Enterprise
In the wilderness of the New World, the Plymouth Pilgrims had progressed from the false dream of communism to the sound realism of capitalism.
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The Vacancy Tax
A vacancy tax is a charge imposed on property owners who leave residential or commercial properties unoccupied for a specified duration. As usual, a statist violation of property rights.
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Price correction “worse than 2008” coming to US housing market—analyst
Steeper cuts [to prices] will come later ... “It’s going to be worse.” Wright said she fears the government might be forced to step in as “the buyer of last resort.”
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Republicans Aren’t Actually Interested In Shrinking Government
The excitement of DOGE's early days has mostly dissipated, in large part because Republicans still completely accept the fallacious paradigm of their progressive opponents about how all these government programs are providing necessary services for the American people.
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We’re Approaching the “Blame the Consumer” Stage of the Boom-Bust Cycle
In a recession or a crisis, the right approach for individuals is to save. So too for the national economy. Saving does not cause the economy to fall into recession any more than more spending can save it from recession.
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Frédéric Bastiat: The Unseen Role of Intermediaries
Bastiat emphasized that much of what goes on in the economy involves things we don’t see directly. Intermediaries often fall into Bastiat’s category of things “not seen.”
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SNB Sight Deposits: decreased by 15 billion francs compared to the previous four weeks
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2025-07-31 – Interim results of the Swiss National Bank as at 30 June 2025
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SNB Brings Back Zero Percent Interest Rates
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Hold-up sur l’eau potable (2/2) : la supercherie de « l’hydrogène vert ». Par Vincent Held
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