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Warren Buffett, Dave Ramsey, and John Maynard Keynes Are Wrong!

2024-09-21

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2024-09-21

What is the Mises Institute? The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property...

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The State’s Cargo Cult Economics

2024-09-21

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2024-09-21

In the wake of World War II, an interesting phenomenon began to build up in the Malenesians, the island chains ranging to the southwest from Guinea to Fiji. Visiting anthropologists observed the primitive local residents were building unusual structures. They would flatten the ground in long strips, build wooden towers and construct strange bird idols.The reason they were doing this was, during the war, when Japanese and American soldiers were...

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Tariffs, Protectionism, and Why Borders Matter

2024-09-21

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2024-09-21

As Democrats and Republicans both express support for tariffs, the economic implications of protectionist policies are once again at the forefront of public debate. Both parties differ on the size of their proposed tariffs, but the New York Times reports that “both Democrats and Republicans are expressing support for tariffs to protect American industry, reversing decades of trade thinking in Washington.” Proposals to impose tariffs on imports from...

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The Trump Campaign Tries to Buy Votes by Subsidizing IVF

2024-09-20

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2024-09-20

With Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris proposing costly new interventionist schemes and co-opting Republican talking points in order to neutralize the unpopularity of rising prices among swing voters, her Republican opponent, Donald Trump, has responded by stealing a page from the Democrat state-building playbook. He has raised the bidding for votes with a preposterous new interventionist proposal of his own—a plan to boost fertility...

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Three Contradictions in Krugman’s Take on the Rate Cuts

2024-09-20

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2024-09-20

Paul Krugman’s latest column is all over the place. He was trying to provide commentary on the Fed’s half-point cut in the Federal Funds Rate, but he was juggling too many contradictory narratives.The contradictions start at the beginning. The Fed’s decision “was of minimal importance” but also a “momentous move.” It wasn’t important because it just a small change in the overnight interbank interest rate. It was very important because of its effect...

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Explaining Imperialism

2024-09-20

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2024-09-20

Imperialism and Social Classesby Joseph Schumpeter; Meridian, 1951 x + 181 pp.Joseph Schumpeter, a contemporary and sometimes rival of Ludwig von Mises, agrees with Mises that capitalism leads to peace, not territorial expansion. The Marxist claim that imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism is thus mistaken. In “The Sociology of Imperialism” (1919), the first of the two essays included in this English translation, Schumpeter offers his own...

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Politics Breeds Conflict while the Market Brings Peace

2024-09-20

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2024-09-20

Once again, the presidential selection process has given us a contest between two people who agree on the pressing need to expand the entire welfare-warfare state. They can argue about priorities, but they agree on the overall goal. With the campaign lacking serious issues, something tells me that the great American obsession over race is going to play a major role, which is gravely unfortunate since the discussion is unlikely to be enlightening.Of...

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The Gradual Leftward Shift in US Politics and Economy

2024-09-20

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2024-09-20

The American political landscape is often perceived as sharply divided between left and right, with the Democratic Party representing the left and the Republican Party, by default, occupying the right. However, a deeper analysis of the policies and rhetoric of current presidential and vice-presidential candidates reveals a more complex reality. Using a framework of political analysis that considers attitudes towards private property rights,...

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You Should Write Like Rockwell and Rothbard

2024-09-20

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2024-09-20

I’ve been writing professionally in various capacities for over twenty years. The jobs have come in many different forms: press releases, white papers, studies on home prices, and more than a thousand op-eds for mises.org. For me—and for anyone who needs to write a lot— it’s important to find some examples on which to model one’s work. Good templates make writing a lot easier. One can draw from many different authors while searching for ideas and...

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The Second Trump Shooter Believed Exactly What the Establishment Media Wanted Him to Believe

2024-09-19

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2024-09-19

What is the Mises Institute? The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property...

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Living Free in an Unfree World

2024-09-19

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2024-09-19

What is the Mises Institute? The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property...

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Yes, We Should Defend the Term “Capitalism”

2024-09-19

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2024-09-19

Perhaps nothing is so vilified as “capitalism” in the modern world. According to a study by North Dakota State University, only a quarter of college students have a positive view of capitalism. Bernie Sanders was wildly popular in 2016, nearly dethroning the neoliberal Hillary Clinton, in part because of his disdain for “millionaires and billionaires” and “capitalism” in favor of socialism (though his views of “millionaires” changed once he became...

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Why the Regime Hates Homeschooling

2024-09-19

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2024-09-19

What is the Mises Institute? The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property...

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Diego Garcia and Cocos Islands: Another Example of US Imperialism

2024-09-19

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2024-09-19

What is the Mises Institute? The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property...

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Governments Had a Major Role in Sustaining Slavery

2024-09-19

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2024-09-19

What is the Mises Institute? The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property...

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How to Contradict Yourself about Rights

2024-09-19

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2024-09-19

What is the Mises Institute? The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property...

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The Folly of Criminalizing “Hate”

2024-09-19

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2024-09-19

What is the Mises Institute? The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property...

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Is Artificial Intelligence the Next Easy-Money Bust?

2024-09-19

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2024-09-19

What is the Mises Institute? The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property...

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Conceptual Clarity in Dismantling Economic Jargon

2024-09-19

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2024-09-19

What is the Mises Institute? The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property...

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Is GDP an Accurate Measure of Reality?

2024-09-19

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2024-09-19

What is the Mises Institute? The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property...

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