The rollback of U.S. meddling in "promoting democracy" is perhaps the most positive foreign-policy reform of the Trump presidency. Column by James Bovard.
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Category Archive: 6b.) Mises.org
If We Measured the Economy by Quality-of-Life Instead of GDP, We’d Be In a Depression
The obsession with measuring aggregate GDP obscures how the real standard of living for many people has declined.
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Silver: London Calling
The white metal’s price chaos of the last week has many similarities with the 1980 Hunt Brothers’ squeeze.
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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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Government Science Is an Oxymoron
Many Americans are convinced that only government can provide useful science since government is supposed to be “neutral,” not corrupted by profit seeking. However, politics corrupts science research more than anything else.
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Popular Media, Romanticism, and the Statist Insinuation
Popular views of capitalism and free markets are not shaped by the facts, but rather by anti-capitalist intellectuals and the media.
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Does a Fall in Unemployment Lead to Stronger Economic Growth?
Ever since the Great Depression, most economists have claimed that the key to increasing economic growth is to lower unemployment. However, increasing the savings rate and building a capital structure are the keys to growth—and lower unemployment.
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Tulipmania Reconsidered, Reconciling Austrian Perspectives
The Dutch Tulip Bulb Mania of the 1630s continues to fascinate, especially given the recent asset bubbles our economy has experienced. What caused this bubble is worth a second look.
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Individualism and Self-Determination in the American Tradition
What do we mean by “individualism” in the American tradition? It is not separatist or atomistic, but rather freedom from having state actors running one’s life.
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Popular Media, Romanticism, and the Statist Insinuation
Popular views of capitalism and free markets are not shaped by the facts, but rather by anti-capitalist intellectuals and the media.
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Steps in the Right Deerection
This week, Dr. David Gordon reviews Ivan Eland's A Balance of Titans. While admiring Eland’s call for less intervention, Dr. Gordon asks why the US needs to intervene militarily overseas at all.
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Serfdom with Palm Trees
If the individual cannot keep what they earn, cannot build, cannot invest, cannot act without permission, then the income from tourism is nothing but a fleeting consumption and a steady stream of rent for the ruling class.
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A Lesson in Persuasion for the Libertarian Cause
How best to present libertarian thinking? Libertarians should not depend just on logic, but also upon presenting libertarian ideals in a practical and useful way.
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Stiglitz and Capitalism: Remembering that Statists Mostly Win the Nobel
While some economists are celebrating the awarding of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics to three economists who are relatively friendly to free markets, we should not forget that most Nobel winners have been unrepentant statists and socialists.
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Inflation: Slowly the Middle-Class Dies
As government spending spins out of control, the Federal Reserve continues to inflate, leaving the economy in a permanent state of inflation. Most Americans will find themselves falling further and further behind.
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Trump authorizes lethal CIA ops in Venezuela
The US military has been drawing up plans to launch strikes on Venezuela and potentially capture strategic ports and airfields on the path to a full-blown war.
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Trump Admin plans to double its bailout of Milei’s Argentina to $40 billion
The new bailout is said to be a "public-private partnership": a state-sponsored corporatist scheme to bail out investors and Milei.
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Housing Has Become More Affordable. The Fed Could Reverse That
Ironically, normal market pressures would make housing more affordable, but easy money undermines that prospect.
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Radicalism, not Conservatism, Is the Answer
"...the fundamental problem with the conservatives ... was that they were looking in the wrong direction. The revolution that they were trying to prevent had already happened..."
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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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