The latest killing of a protester in Minneapolis by federal agents is reminiscent of the shooting of Vickie Weaver by a government sniper in 1992. In both cases, the government has refused to acknowledge wrongdoing and has engaged in legal coverups.
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Category Archive: 6b.) Mises.org
Making Sense of Historical Data
Historical data is not enough for economists to make sense of it. Instead, that data must be viewed through a theoretical framework that explains what has happened.
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Why the Fracturing of MAGA Doesn’t Matter
He was always a New York Democrat billionaire, and he was never going to be a champion of working people or free markets. Trump is a Likudnik, not America First, and always was the former and never the latter.
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Latest Federal Killing in Minnesota Echoes Ruby Ridge
The latest killing of a protester in Minneapolis by federal agents is reminiscent of the shooting of Vickie Weaver by a government sniper in 1992. In both cases, the government has refused to acknowledge wrongdoing and has engaged in legal coverups.
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Gold price soars past $5,000 per ounce
"Gold prices tore past another milestone, with tariff threats against Canada and the possibility of a fresh U.S. government shutdown adding fuel to the metal’s historic rally."
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Dedollarization? It’s More Like “De-fiatization”
Investors are not abandoning dollars so much as they are abandoning fiat currency in favor of gold. Gold is rising as a share of reserves, but euros and yen are not.
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Trump says he wants Bessent as Fed Chair
"President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he would like to appoint Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to chair the Federal Reserve."
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Does Liberalism Fuel Imperialism?
Conventional wisdom tells us the liberal democracies are the most peace-loving nations. But the record tells us something else.
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In the Company of Mavericks: Mark Thornton on the Austrian Comeback
Mark Thornton shares an in-depth interview with Jeremy McKeown on the long rivalry between Austrian and Keynesian economics, and why Austrian ideas may be gaining new traction today.
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Gold Exports, Trade Deficits, and Tariffs
Bob responds to James Rickards’ recent tweet on record U.S. gold exports driving an improved trade balance, walking through the official data on non-monetary gold, Trump-era tariff uncertainty, and the broader question of what chronic trade deficits really mean in a post-gold-standard world.
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How “The Vision of The Anointed” Explains Every Crisis in America
Sowell’s Vision of the Anointed provides a compelling framework to examine key political processes.
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Virtuous Market Distribution vs. Nefarious State Redistribution
Progressives sell state intervention into economic affairs as “protecting” consumers and workers. In all cases, free markets do a better job of protecting all participants.
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On the Failure of Constitutionalism Through the Ages: Norms, Emergencies, and the Administrative State
Constitutionalism gives us the expectation of governance according to rules that everyone from those that are governed to the ones that govern are expected to obey. But what happens if those that govern exempt themselves from those rules?
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The Polish Rothbardians
This week, Dr. Gordon reviews a new work— Reinterpreting Libertarianism: New Directions in Libertarian Studies—and offers insights on some of the contributions.
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The Declaration of Independence Created 13 New Sovereign Countries
Ryan McMaken and historian Larsen Plyler talk about how the Americans of the 1770s envisioned a new community of independent and sovereign states. The first constitution made this clear. But then the new counterrevolutionaries like Hamilton wrote a new constitution designed to create one big national state with vast new powers.
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Using Carl Menger’s Insights To Understand Jew-Gentile Polarizations
Throughout history, Jews have been denounced as “moneylenders,” yet, as Carl Menger noted, there are very good reasons why Jewish people have been overrepresented in banking and finance.
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Menger versus Chartalism: Standards of Empirical Evidence
Menger said alternative monetary theories were “unhistorical,” but one could argue that Menger’s theory also lacks historical evidence necessary to verify his theory. Did Menger display a double standard or a nuanced view as to what we should expect from different monetary theories?
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Trading with the Enemy: An American Tradition
Murray Rothbard recounts how during the French and Indian War (1754–63), Americans continued the great tradition of trading with the enemy.
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SNB Sight Deposits: decreased by 5.3 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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