The Trump administration’s recent moves to take equity positions in Intel and MP Materials undermines the free market system and will create economic harm.
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Category Archive: 6b.) Mises.org
A Note on Taqiyya: Was Bin Laden Telling the Truth about His Objectives?
What indicates that bin Laden was telling the truth about his motives and strategies in facilitating suicide terrorism? What about his Muslim constituency?
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Trump Is Digging His Own Economic Grave
Since becoming president, most of the actions taken by President Trump have been anti-economic growth, and the US economy now is sputtering. Unfortunately, Trump seems to believe that a combination of trade restrictions and inflation is what the economy needs.
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The Libertarian Objection to Civil Rights Laws
While the libertarian tradition of Murray Rothbard has supported individual rights, the modern idea of civil rights and the laws behind them are a different matter altogether.
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Of Tomatoes and Tariffs
Are tomatoes fruits or vegetables? Believe it or not, the US Supreme Court ruled on that question in 1893 in order to settle a tariff dispute over importation of tomatoes.
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Trump’s Intel Deal Jumps the Shark
Like the Happy Days program that could not be saved by Fonzie’s waterskiing heroics, Intel will be made even weaker in the aftermath of its equity deal with the Trump administration.
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Israel Bombs Qatar (and has now bombed five countries in the past year)
The socialist State of Israel has now bombed five countries in the past year: Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Iran, and Qatar.
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Senator Tim Kaine Declares that Rights Come from Government
Senator Tim Kaine’s definition of “rights” as things created by government and human law is extremely dangerous because a government that creates rights can also abolish them.
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The Jobs Numbers Have Been Fake All Along
It turns out 2024's jobs data was very wrong. Central planning has always been a fantasy, and its even more fantastic when the government statistics are so thoroughly wrong for so long.
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Making Corporatism Great Again
President Trump has recently endorsed a policy that is arguably as socialist as anything proposed by New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani or Sen. Bernie Sanders — partial government ownership of private corporations.
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The Feds overestimated employment by 911,000 jobs for the year ending March 2025
It turns out the skeptics were right all along, and the media "analysts" crowing about the "blowout" jobs numbers were repeatedly wrong.
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Zohran Mamdani’s Price Controls Would be Disastrous for New York City
Although New York mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani has made some very popular promises, his litany of free stuff will run headlong into economic reality soon enough.
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Introduction to Natural Law
The natural law is, in essence, a profoundly "radical" ethic, for it holds the existing status quo, which might grossly violate natural law, up to the unsparing and unyielding light of reason.
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Selective Justice: Pirate Streams, Drug Boats, and Epstein’s Elusive Clients
Government not only has a monopoly on law enforcement and “justice,” but it also protects that monopoly against anyone who might seek justice outside the purview of the state.
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Gold opens at new record of $3,635
Another Fed rate cut appears to be in the works, so that is likely to lead to further declines in the dollar, and increases in the gold price.
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Marginal Utility Theory Versus the Mainstream
Austrian economists differ with the economic mainstream in many ways, but the break on utility theory is especially critical in understanding the split between the two schools of economic thought.
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Why the Fed Isn’t Really Independent
Bob analyzes the myth of Federal Reserve independence, exposing its political nature and long history of serving power.
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Classical Liberalism and the Woke Right Extremists
The “woke left” and “woke right” are lumped together as two types of “woke.” But it is intellectually lazy and obscures truth to identify all opponents as the same because of superficial similarities.
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SNB Sight Deposits: increased by 1.7 billion francs compared to the previous week
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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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