The very definition of socialism: government ownership of the means of production. The US federal government now owns 10% of intel.
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Category Archive: 6b.) Mises.org
New-Home Sales Dip in July as Homebuilders Struggle To Entice Reluctant Buyers
The median sales price of new houses sold in July was $403,800, down 5.9% from a year earlier and the lowest price since November 2024.
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The Tariff Question in the Antebellum South
While many historians claim slavery was the sole cause of the Civil War, they are overlooking the role of tariffs in creating the economic and political divides between North and South before the war began.
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Disaster Prediction and Alerts Would Thrive in the Free Market
People assume (including most mainstream economists) assume that only a government bureaucracy can effectively deal with predicting disasters and alerting people in harm's way. However, this is an area of enterprise that is ripe for free markets.
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Charlie Kirk on Drugs: Addicted to Progressive Values?
Charlie Kirk blames cannabis for social decay, but Mark Thornton shows it’s Progressive policies, not personal liberty, that fuel addiction, welfare dependence, and urban breakdown.
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Review: Inflation and the Family: A Book Almost 300 Years in the Making
While Cantillon used the effects on family life to illustrate monetary theory, Degner lingers to employ sound monetary theory to trace out the effects on the family.
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The Misesian, vol. 2, no. 4, 2025
In this issue of The Misesian, we take a look at how states use their fiscal and financial powers to convert the productivity and resources of the private sector into warmaking power for the state’s elites.
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Lincoln’s Distortion of the Declaration of Independence
In the Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln offered an interpretation of the Declaration of Independence which reinterpreted a declaration of secession into a justification for crushing secession.
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Powell signals that the Fed is ready for rate cuts
Powell caves to administration pressure and predicts rate cuts. Meanwhile, asset prices soar on the news of more inflation.
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Why Rothbard Thought the Fed Eliminated Market Safeguards Against Bank Inflation
Rothbard argued that the Fed stripped away the natural checks of free banking, paving the way for endless credit expansion and inflationary cycles.
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Inflation and Family Economics
Economist Jeff Degner joins Ryan McMaken to discuss how inflationary monetary policy has changed our culture, and the family with it.
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If Employment Is So Strong, Why Is McDonald’s Slashing Prices?
This is all a reminder that one should never take what Fed mouthpieces say as reliable insights into present or future economic trends.
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Charles A. Beard on the Causes and the Perils of Interventionism
Since the Progressive Era, American foreign policy has seen one military intervention after another, leading to disastrous consequences. Historian Charles A. Beard understood the dangers and futility associated with these interventionist policies.
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FBI searches home and office of ex-Trump national security adviser John Bolton
Bolton is a leading cheerleader for the modern American surveillance state and for endless intervention abroad.
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Spotlight: Summer 2025 Research Fellows in Residence
For more than 20 years now, our summer-long fellowship program has offered liberty-minded scholars a place to write, study, publish, and develop their contributions to the fields of economics, history, philosophy, and more. Learn more about this year's cohort!
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The Myth of Fed “Independence”
The Fed by design feeds the political machine in DC by concealing the costs of government spending. The Fed serves the government, not the American people.
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Why We Need to Read Read
We owe a great debt to Gary Galles for collecting no less than 97 of Leonard Read’s articles, accompanied by a commentary of his own in which he shows their relevance to contemporary issues.
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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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2025-06-25 – Quarterly Bulletin 2/2025
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