Category Archive: 6b.) Mises.org

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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Reading Markets the Austrian Way

Mark Thornton reviews David Howden’s commodity playbook for long-term investors.

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Supporters Summit 2025

The Mises Institute 2025 Supporters Summit in Delray Beach, Florida. This event explores the theme of economic freedom and makes the case for the system of private property.

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2025 Supporters Summit

The Mises Institute 2025 Supporters Summit in Delray Beach, Florida. This event explores the theme of economic freedom and makes the case for the system of private property.

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The Myth of the “Robber Barons”: James Hill versus the Crony Competitors

As a true market entrepreneur, as opposed to a political entrepreneur, James J. Hill successfully built a transcontinental railroad, outcompeting his government-subsidized competitors.

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“Experts” Don’t Know How Ignorant They Are

The central philosophy of progressivism is that we should be governed by so-called experts. What happens, however, when the “experts” are just plain wrong?

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U.S. Treasury Yields Signal Fed Rate-Cut Expectations

Markets price in a near 97% probability of a 25-bp rate cut in Oct and a 94% probability of another 25-basis-point rate cut in Dec.

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The Myth of the “Robber Barons”: James Hill versus the Crony Competitors

As a true market entrepreneur, as opposed to a political entrepreneur, James J. Hill successfully built a transcontinental railroad, outcompeting his government-subsidized competitors.

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Trump calls off trade talks with Canada over Ontario’s anti-tariff ad

Trump's rule-by-decree protectionism continues as he insists Americans must pay more taxes to get Canadian goods and raw materials.

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Neo-Luddite Hokum from Conservatives Strikes Again

AI doomerism and neo-Luddite sentiments have become increasingly prevalent in recent discourse.

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2 percent inflation? 2026 COLA benefit increases 2.8%

The Social Security cost-of-living adjustment will be 2.8% in 2026, the Social Security Administration said.

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Defending Dixie: A Defender of the South

Dr. David Gordon, in today’s Friday Philosophy, reviews Clyde N. Wilson’s, Defending Dixie: Essays in Southern History and Culture. In these essays, Professor Wilson defends secession and the Southern cause.

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Can Trump murder anyone so long as Trump calls him/her a “narco-terrorist”?

Napolitano: "The Trump administration has claimed that it can kill whomever it designates as an unlawful enemy combatant. The evidence is this: "trust me, bro."

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US Considering a Plan To Split Gaza into Two

One area would be controlled by Hamas and the other controlled by the Israeli military.

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The Myth of Planned Obsolescence

The concept of “planned obsolescence” makes no economic sense and is often an excuse for governments to harass and shake down innovative entrepreneurs. Much of so-called planned obsolescence is really entrepreneurship at work improving products for users and consumers.

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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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The Myth of Planned Obsolescence

The concept of “planned obsolescence” makes no economic sense and is often an excuse for governments to harass and shake down innovative entrepreneurs. Much of so-called planned obsolescence is really entrepreneurship at work improving products for users and consumers.

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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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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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