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Why We Should Repeal the Civil Rights Act

2026-02-16

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2026-02-16

The Civil Rights Act, first passed in 1964, is falsely connected with freedom. In reality, this law severely restricts individual liberty and replaces it with coercive government acts.

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Monetary Decay and Imperial Survival

2026-02-16

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2026-02-16

The American empire—with its global military footprint and permanent war economy—cannot be financed through honest taxation without provoking revolt.

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Challenging the Efficient Market Hypothesis and Fundamentals Analysis

2026-02-16

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2026-02-16

Mainstream economics and finance theories hold that markets immediately adjust to new information. While market prices do reflect available information, the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) fails to explain the boom-bust cycle as well as Austrian analysis.

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A Brief History of the Petite Bourgeoisie

2026-02-16

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2026-02-16

From the Jacksonians to the Marxists, political theorists have understood that there is something unique about "small industry" between big business and propertyless workers.

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Survival of the Least Fit

2026-02-16

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2026-02-16

We now live in a fundamentally altered landscape where old certainties no longer confer fitness.

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Debt, Inflation, and the Illusion of Protection

2026-02-15

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2026-02-15

The boom-and-bust cycle isn’t limited just to so-called advanced economies. It also has become a way of life in the economies of tropical countries and other emerging economies.

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Markets, Manipulation, and Silver-Stacking

2026-02-14

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2026-02-14

A historic metals shakeout, a simple “stacking plan,” and a bigger question: how do you stay independent when the system punishes savers?

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Bitcoin Mining and the Electricity Grid: A Quiet Savior

2026-02-13

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2026-02-13

When we think of the need for more electricity to meet a weather-related surge in demand, we think more generation of power. However, entities like Bitcoin, which is a huge electricity consumer, can also curtail enough operations to put more power back into the grid.

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National Self-Determination and Individual Liberty

2026-02-13

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2026-02-13

Murray Rothbard believed that national self-determination was essential for individual freedom. Rothbard also did not make the error of connecting a nation to a government. One was not the other.

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Understanding Argentina’s Decades of Economic Crises

2026-02-13

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2026-02-13

In his recent address at the Davos Conference, Argentina’s president Javier Milei told those attending why Argentina has had one inflationary crisis after another. Milei says that Austrian economics can end the nightmare.

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Olaudah Equiano’s Manumission: Regulatory Barriers to Freedom

2026-02-13

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2026-02-13

If one man may legally own another, then he should likewise have the right to disown this property. To deny this right by law involves simultaneously affirming the right of one human to own another as his property but not the right to stop owning another human.

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Goldman Sachs top lawyer to step down after lying about Epstein connections

2026-02-13

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2026-02-13

" Her announcement follows the release of documents detailing her often chummy conversations with notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein." She had long claimed to barely know Epstein.

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Tech Amazon’s Ring cancels Flock partnership amid Super Bowl ad backlash

2026-02-13

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2026-02-13

" Ring’s decision to cancel its partnership with Flock comes as tech companies face growing pressure to reexamine their work with federal agencies."

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The Putnam Twist: The End of Value

2026-02-13

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2026-02-13

Like so many intellectuals, Hilary Putnam is a good philosopher but a poor judge of good economics. In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon dissects Putnam’s confusion between facts and values.

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Warsh May Not Be the Hawk Wall Street Expects

2026-02-13

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2026-02-13

Warsh wouldn't be offered the job if he were a departure from the usual model of Fed chairs. He'll inflate plenty, especially when recession hits.

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The Real Numbers: Counting Gaza’s Dead and Disappeared

2026-02-13

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2026-02-13

"The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) proclaimed that “the current violent death toll” in Gaza likely exceeded 100,000..."

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Proven Petroleum Reserves and the Myth of “Peak Oil”

2026-02-13

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Olaudah Equiano’s Manumission: Regulatory Barriers to Freedom

2026-02-12

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2026-02-12

If one man may legally own another, then he should likewise have the right to disown this property. To deny this right by law involves simultaneously affirming the right of one human to own another as his property but not the right to stop owning another human.

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The Turmoil at the Washington Post Does Not “Threaten” Democracy

2026-02-12

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2026-02-12

Pundits are claiming that the demise of the Washington Post will weaken democracy and provide a boost for government corruption. As usual, the pundits are badly mistaken.

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Economic Freedom in Contexts of Crisis: An Austrian Analysis for 2026

2026-02-12

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2026-02-12

Even as much of the political world is trying to direct us to socialism, the failures of that system are not hidden. There is a reason why economic freedom also results in a better life for all, and Austrian economists know that better than anyone else.

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