Category Archive: 6b.) Mises.org

Brady: The New Neoconservatives

Bari Weiss gate-keeps the right against antiwar conservatives. Sound familiar?

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Right and Left: What Do They Really Mean?

Long before Soviet propaganda cynically rebranded the Nazis as “bourgeois,” and long before modern academics lazily stamped them “far-right,” Mises dismantled National Socialism with clinical precision.

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Trump’s Venezuelan Crony Capitalism

Trump justifies his war on Venezuela by saying that “they” stole “our” oil. Unpacking this claim gives us insight into Trump’s version of crony capitalism.

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Trump’s National Insecurity Strategy

President Trump’s latest national security initiative is unlikely to make the US secure from outside danger. For that matter, Trump’s own internal policies are making this country less secure.

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The Statism of Donald Trump

From war to tariffs to inflation, it is clear Donald Trump is a devoted disciple of the ideology of statism and interventionism. The fact he's better than the atrocious Kamala Harris doesn't change this.

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Calhoun’s Doctrine of the Concurrent Majority

Sensing the dangers of tyranny by the majority, John C. Calhoun developed the doctrine of the concurrent majority which served to limit the powers of government.

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Socialist Mamdani Inadvertently Pays Tribute to Capitalism

Zohran Mamdani held his mayoral swearing in ceremony at the now-abandoned City Hall Station that was a feature of the first New York Subway built in 1904. Unfortunately, city officials deliberately drove the subway company into insolvency and then took over.

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Questioning the Annexation of Texas as a US State

The annexation of Texas was a preview of future foreign policy.

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Do Central Banks Determine Interest Rates?

While most economists believe that central banks set interest rates, in reality, they are set by time preferences of individual actors in the economy. Central bank influences on interest rates ultimately result in setting off boom-and-bust cycles.

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The new president of Venezuela is a socialist who vows opposition to US invasion.

Where is the "duly elected" president we were told about? Turns out none of the US-supported leaders have enough public support to take power.

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Socialist Mamdani Inadvertently Pays Tribute to Capitalism

Zohran Mamdani held his mayoral swearing in ceremony at the now-abandoned City Hall Station that was a feature of the first New York Subway built in 1904. Unfortunately, city officials deliberately drove the subway company into insolvency and then took over.

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Minn. Gov. Tim Walz will not seek re-election in midst of daycare scandal

He was almost VP. Soon he'll be just another "visiting scholar" at a leftwing think tank. Perhaps he can hang out with Liz Cheney.

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Three Key Lessons from the US’s Venezuela Intervention

The US's bombing of Caracas reiterates three key foundations of American foreign policy: the Constitution is dead, democracy is irrelevant, and the "rule of law" doesn't matter.

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The Statism of Donald Trump

From war to tariffs to inflation, it is clear Donald Trump is a devoted disciple of the ideology of statism and interventionism. The fact he's better than the atrocious Kamala Harris doesn't change this.

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The US Government Is Not the Daddy of US Oil Companies

Among the many rationalizations that the Trump administration is using to initiate massive force and violence against the Venezuelan people is that the Venezuelan government nationalized American oil interests many years ago.

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Questioning the Annexation of Texas as a US State

The annexation of Texas was a preview of future foreign policy.

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NYC Cheers Socialism while California Billionaires Run from It

Margaret Thatcher’s famous quote spells doom for new socialist schemes, “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples’ money.”

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Monetary Policy Is Monetary Piracy

Even Milton Friedman—who never supported gold as money—admitted that a monetary system based on gold would “take care of itself.” Instead, our money is created and manipulated by the politicized hand of government and is based on theft.

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Silver’s Growing Pains

$50 wasn’t the finish line. It was the starting gun for policy finger-pointing and real-world bottlenecks.

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4 ways Team Trump reminded us of Bush-Cheney in 2025

Jack Hunter: "From WMDs to bombing Iran, the president who consistently mocked the GWOT is now pushing the same old buttons."

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