Category Archive: 6b.) Mises.org

Freedom in Money: Hayek’s Competing Currencies, the Fed, Gold, and Crypto

Dr. Alex Pollock shows Hayek’s case for currency competition over central-bank monopoly—why real monetary freedom means letting monies compete.

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Memories of Delray and 30 Years of Mises.org

On this special episode of Power and Market, Joshua Mawhorter joins Tho Bishop and Connor O'Keeffe to talk about the recent Supporters Summit, the legacy of Mises.org, and a few books they are reading.

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America Hurts Farmers and Discounts China’s Soy Imports while Providing a Crutch for Argentina

Once again, the Trump administration’s “dealmaking” on international trade has blown up, this time pulling the rug from under US soybean farmers. This isn’t the first trade policy fiasco, nor will it be the last.

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The Danger of Deflation (Phobia)

Dr. Joe Salerno argues we shouldn't fear falling prices: productivity-driven deflation raises living standards, while “deflation phobia” props up inflation targeting.

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Understanding Resentment against Capitalism



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New Rothbard Letters Show His Early Opposition to both Nixon and Reagan

“I see that you are preparing the groundwork for supporting Nixon,” Rothbard wrote Meyer. “Again, for shame! Is this what conservative principles are coming down to...?"

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We Have Not Properly Reckoned with the Economic Insanity of 2020

The governmental response to the covid pandemic was to cripple the economy. To compensate for the damage, the Federal Reserve unleashed massive inflation in an attempt to do what the Fed always does in a crisis: bail out the economic actors.

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What Will the Next Gold Bust Look Like?

There have been four gold busts under the fiat dollar money regimes since the “freeing” of the gold price in March 1968. Will the current gold boom end in a similar bust?

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Yes, Tariffs Reduce Imports, but They Also Reduce Exports

Bob explains Lerner’s Symmetry Theorem and shows how tariffs ripple through exchange rates, exports, and trade balances—then tests those predictions against today’s Trump-era tariff shocks.

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Iran’s Economy Isn’t Failing; It’s a Plunder Machine

The people of Iran suffer not only from authoritarian rule, but they also are victims of an economy in which the authoritarian rulers engage in central economic planning that is destroying the economy. It’s an economy based upon plunder, not production.

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Greed Makes Bankers’ Brains Turn to Mush

Bankers will be bankers, and AI can only add to their hubris.

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New Rothbard Letters Show His Early Opposition to both Nixon and Reagan

“I see that you are preparing the groundwork for supporting Nixon,” Rothbard wrote Meyer. “Again, for shame! Is this what conservative principles are coming down to...?"

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How Progressives Broke the Constitution and Praised Themselves for It

The US Constitution as originally written and understood no longer exists. The first wave of “progressives” reinterpreted it to their liking before later generations of progressives finished the job.

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Argentine peso weakens to fresh low despite US interventions

Ridiculously, Treasury Sec Bessent said in a television interview earlier this month that the peso was “undervalued” and he intended to “buy low and sell high.”

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Murray Rothbard on Communism and Cuba

While Murray Rothbard opposed the communist system, he also recognized that Cuba was no threat to the US militarily or economically. That is why he believed the US must recognize Cuba's government and permit trade and travel between the two countries.

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Will Trump really attack Venezuela?

The CIA’s efforts to foment a coup have already failed once. Will Trump try it again?

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How Progressives Broke the Constitution and Praised Themselves for It

The US Constitution as originally written and understood no longer exists. The first wave of “progressives” reinterpreted it to their liking before later generations of progressives finished the job.

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Economists predict Fed will cut twice more by year end

More inflation coming: the Fed will lower its key interest rate by 25 basis points next week and again in December, according to a Reuters poll.

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It Didn’t Start with Trump

History suggests that abuse of power is an inevitable feature of the modern welfare-warfare-regulatory state.

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We Can’t “Teach” Entrepreneurship, But We Can Inspire Future Entrepreneurs

While it is true that one cannot create entrepreneurs in a classroom setting, it still is important that people how entrepreneurship works. No one explains entrepreneurship better than Austrian economists.

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