The liberal arts in higher education are in danger and many there are blaming (of course) free markets. However, by substituting progressive propaganda for higher learning, the leaders of liberal arts institutions sealed their own fate.
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Category Archive: 6b.) Mises.org
October was the worst month for layoffs in 22 years
The job picture continues to worsen: "This is the highest total for October in over 20 years, and the highest total for a single month in the fourth quarter since 2008."
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Donald Trump’s Approval Rating ‘In a Free Fall’ for Weeks: Nate Silver
Approval ratings plummet as the Trump admin has become a hotbed of warmongering, big spending, and an endless churn of big-government schemes.
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How to End the Fed
Dr. Jonathan Newman explains why we don’t need a central bank, and lays out a concrete, Rothbard-inspired plan for actually ending the Fed.
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Sorcerers of Demand
Central planners act as sorcerers who can conjure economic prosperity through artificially increasing demand.
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50-Year Mortgages Won’t Make Housing More Affordable
President Trump has proposed a 50-year mortgage for new homebuyers, ostensibly to make housing more affordable. Actually, this financial instrument will make housing more costly and do nothing to address the root of this entire problem: the artificial housing shortage.
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Rethinking “Sticky Prices” and Monetary Disequilibrium
Bob Murphy and Jonathan Newman walk through his claim that real‑world exchanges clear markets—even with supposedly “sticky” prices—and what that implies for money, contracts, inventories, and unemployment statistics.
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The Architecture of Peace: How Markets Transform Conflict into Cooperation
As Americans celebrate the destructive wars that helped shape this country, we also remember that free markets promote peace and individual liberty.
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On Veterans Day, Remember the Lies That Filled Military Cemeteries
A few hours studying the lessons of history can prevent heaps of grave-digging in the coming years. None of the veterans we celebrate on Veterans Day died protecting freedom in the US.
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Trump’s 50-Year Mortgage Will Bring More Inflation and Corporate Bailouts
Total mortgage debt will increase as actual ownership in equity will go down. If homeownership does increase, it will be “ownership” of the sort where the homeowner has little to no actual equity.
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What Would Hayek and Mises Think about Mamdani?
Based on their writings, what insights do Hayek and Mises provide about the recent election of Mamdani?
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In Praise of Pat Buchanan
For Rothbard, war was the most important political issue, and Pat Buchanan has always supported peace.
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Rothbard: World War I as the Triumph of Progressive Intellectuals
November 11 was once known as Armistice Day, the day set aside to celebrate the end of WWI. In this essay Rothbard discusses the war as the triumph of several Progressive intellectual strains from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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The Logic of Hyperinflation: A Rejoinder to Hülsmann
Philipp Bagus responds to Hülsmann’s prior response. The debate is over whether closure of Argentina’s central bank would cause an inflationary crisis.
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Innovation Is Not the Key Driver of Economic Growth
Contra the recent winners of the Nobel Memorial Prize in economics, free markets, private savings, and entrepreneurship not so-called innovation, is what drives a market economy.
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On Resisting Evil
We libertarians may be anti-state, but that we are emphatically not anti-society or opposed to the real world, however contaminated it might be.
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The Environmental Costs of AI are Overblown
Environmentalists are at it again, this time claiming that AI centers will create environmental disasters all over the country. Once again, they exaggerate greatly.
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Silver: Manipulation or Fundamentals?
Is silver “manipulated,” or are fundamentals doing the work? Mark Thornton sifts the evidence and finds a simpler story.
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Lessons From Mises on Resolving the History Wars
Despite the claims from many historians that they just report the facts, the study of history is highly ideological and historians often depend upon narratives. Mises pointed out another way in his Theory and History.
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Stablecoins: The US Dollar’s Unexpected Lifeline
If stablecoins continue to expand, the architecture of monetary control will inevitably change.
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SNB Sight Deposits: increased by 5.2 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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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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