While unity sounds like a nice thing to have, when it comes to politics and nation-states, experience repeatedly shows that unity is the tool of those who build state power at the expense of freedom.
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Category Archive: 6b.) Mises.org
Daoism and the Limits of Rule: Ethical Anarchism Without Natural Rights
While libertarians like to think of political libertarianism as a peculiarly western concept, it turns out that classical Daoist thinkers wrote about state power in a way that would seem to channel none other than Murray Rothbard.
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The Case for Economic Truth: Why Tariff Cuts Trump Protectionism
Ultimately, eliminating tariffs is a submission to a fundamental truth: the wealth of a nation does not come from stifling global trade.
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Japan Bond Crash Unleashes a $7 Trillion Risk for Global Markets
Inflation, long dormant in Japan, has taken hold. As a result, investors have been frantically sending bond yields up to levels once unthinkable.
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When Hate Speech is Defined as a Crime
Many progressives believe that certain kind of speech, or what they call “hate speech,” should be subject to criminal penalties, including imprisonment. Murray Rothbard understood that such laws would destroy our very freedoms.
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Republicans and MAGA: Carrying a Gun Is a Bad Thing Now
In 2026, conservatives cheer the masking of police in a way that would have been viewed as shockingly sinister, illegal, and downright creepy by Americans of earlier generations.
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Trump Orders Major Military Buildup Over Iran
The military buildup includes the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier strike group. On Friday, the US Treasury slapped sanctions on nine ships suspected of carrying sanctioned Iranian oil.
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On the Failure of Constitutionalism Through the Ages: Norms, Emergencies, and the Administrative State
Constitutionalism gives us the expectation of governance according to rules that everyone from those that are governed to the ones that govern are expected to obey. But what happens if those that govern exempt themselves from those rules?
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Latest Federal Killing in Minnesota Echoes Ruby Ridge
The latest killing of a protester in Minneapolis by federal agents is reminiscent of the shooting of Vickie Weaver by a government sniper in 1992. In both cases, the government has refused to acknowledge wrongdoing and has engaged in legal coverups.
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Making Sense of Historical Data
Historical data is not enough for economists to make sense of it. Instead, that data must be viewed through a theoretical framework that explains what has happened.
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Why the Fracturing of MAGA Doesn’t Matter
He was always a New York Democrat billionaire, and he was never going to be a champion of working people or free markets. Trump is a Likudnik, not America First, and always was the former and never the latter.
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Latest Federal Killing in Minnesota Echoes Ruby Ridge
The latest killing of a protester in Minneapolis by federal agents is reminiscent of the shooting of Vickie Weaver by a government sniper in 1992. In both cases, the government has refused to acknowledge wrongdoing and has engaged in legal coverups.
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Dedollarization? It’s More Like “De-fiatization”
Investors are not abandoning dollars so much as they are abandoning fiat currency in favor of gold. Gold is rising as a share of reserves, but euros and yen are not.
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Gold price soars past $5,000 per ounce
"Gold prices tore past another milestone, with tariff threats against Canada and the possibility of a fresh U.S. government shutdown adding fuel to the metal’s historic rally."
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Trump says he wants Bessent as Fed Chair
"President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he would like to appoint Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to chair the Federal Reserve."
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Does Liberalism Fuel Imperialism?
Conventional wisdom tells us the liberal democracies are the most peace-loving nations. But the record tells us something else.
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In the Company of Mavericks: Mark Thornton on the Austrian Comeback
Mark Thornton shares an in-depth interview with Jeremy McKeown on the long rivalry between Austrian and Keynesian economics, and why Austrian ideas may be gaining new traction today.
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Gold Exports, Trade Deficits, and Tariffs
Bob responds to James Rickards’ recent tweet on record U.S. gold exports driving an improved trade balance, walking through the official data on non-monetary gold, Trump-era tariff uncertainty, and the broader question of what chronic trade deficits really mean in a post-gold-standard world.
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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 Sight Deposits: decreased by 3.1 billion francs compared to the previous week
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SNB’s Chairman Schlegel: A few months of negative inflation wouldn’t be a problem
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2025-07-31 – Interim results of the Swiss National Bank as at 30 June 2025
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