U.S.-led regime change in Venezuela would worsen the problems Trump promised to fix.
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Category Archive: 6b.) Mises.org
How Food Industry Lobbyists Keep the Food-Stamp Gravy Train Going
The food stamp program is a way for Pepsico and the Coca-Cola company to legally rip off the taxpayers.
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Antitrust Policies Are Based upon Economic Illiteracy
Prices in veterinary services for pets have skyrocketed in the UK since 2020, but the only solution interventionists can find is antitrust policy.
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Latest CPI Report: Price Inflation Rises Yet Again
September's year-over-year CPI increase was 3.0 percent, the largest annual increase in 17 months.
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Ludwig von Mises Did not Promote Hitler’s Racial Ideas
Leftist Boston University historian Quinn Slobodian claims that Ludwig von Mises was a Nazi sympathizer who favored Hitler’s views on race and imperialism, while broadcaster Thom Hartmann makes similar assertions. Neither man is willing to admit the truth about Mises.
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Private Property: The Sacred Guardian of Individual Liberty
James Bovard makes a case that private property is the bulwark of liberty—spotlighting how courts, cops, and bureaucrats chip away at it.
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A Brief History of the Enduring American Embargo against Cuba
For more than 60 years, the US government has enforced a trade embargo against Cuba, ostensibly to force the communist government into collapse. The only thing that has collapsed, however, is the logic in the US policy.
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The 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics: A “Creative Betrayal” of Schumpeter’s Vision
In their 1990 paper, “A Model of Growth Through Creative Destruction,” 2025 Nobel winners Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt attempt to formalize Joseph Schumpeter's theory of “Creative Destruction.” Their mathematical model is not creative, but it is destructive of the theory itself.
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No, Tariffs Did Not Cause September’s Budget Surplus
September’s fiscal surplus was not thanks to tariff revenue. In truth, it was thanks to Americans paying more in income tax. Tariffs were only 5.7 percent of revenue.
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How to Recognize Critical Race Theory
Despite the change in the White House, critical race theory is still with us, dominating the academic sectors and being ingrained in progressive culture. We need to better recognize what it is and how it works in order to better refute it.
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Birth of a Nation, Death of an Ideal
The US as a modern nation began in 1789, but between the Constitution and Alexander Hamilton’s national bank, the original ideal of liberty that drove the American Revolution had passed. We still are living in Hamilton’s country.
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The Rubio Doctrine: Neocons Are Back!
After John Bolton’s disastrous stint in the first Trump administration, promises were made that the second Trump administration would be neocon-free. Instead, the neocons are back.
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Recognizing the Roots of the Current US Political Turmoil
No one doubts that the US is a politically and culturally divided nation. Contrary to much of public opinion, politicians like Donald Trump did not cause the crisis. Instead, as Lawrence Mead writes, they are a symptom of the government's assault on our culture.
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New Rothbard Letters Show He Rejected both Drug Abuse and the Drug War
"[T]hey see that their parents are pro-war, pro-militarism, and anti-sex, and they have become just the opposite ... and to become pro-drugs because their parents are hysterically opposed."
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The National Debt Soars Past $38 Trillion
Federal debt now increases at a shocking rate, with the US's debt increasing from $37 trillion to $38 trillion in just 73 days.
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The Questionable Rationale of Adjusting Data for Seasonality
When economists try to analyze the economy, one procedure is to remove the “seasonal” component from the data in order to account for trends and fluctuations. That collides with the thinking behind praxeology in which human beings engage in purposeful behavior.
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Recognizing the Roots of the Current US Political Turmoil
No one doubts that the US is a politically and culturally divided nation. Contrary to much of public opinion, politicians like Donald Trump did not cause the crisis. Instead, as Lawrence Mead writes, they are a symptom of the government's assault on our culture.
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Javier Milei’s party wins mid-term elections
Milei's party won pluralities nationwide: “we will have 101 deputies instead of 37,” said Milei. “...in the Senate, we will go from 6 senators to 20."
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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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