Category Archive: 6b.) Mises.org

Ron Paul: Hegseth In Hot Seat as ‘Murder-gate’ Picks Up Steam

The White House and Pentagon can’t seem to get the story straight on the “double-tap” murder of survivors of a US extrajudicial killing off the coast of Venezuela.

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21st Century First 25 Years: US Government Bankruptcy

A non-exhaustive review of government spending over the last quarter century.

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Stop the Drive to War with Venezuela

Trump’s position on this reminds us of Madeleine Albright’s famous complaint: “What’s the point of having this superb military that you’re always talking about if we can’t use it?”

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Hegseth, Boat Strikes, and the False Target of Establishment Hypocrisy

Many of the same Democratic lawmakers now condemning the shooting of survivors of the alleged drug boat strike had no problem when presidents they liked greenlit even worse strikes. But that doesn’t excuse Trump’s awful escalation in the Caribbean.

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Zohran Mamdani’s Socialism Flunks Basic Economics

New York’s mayor-elect believes he can implement socialist policies through sheer rhetoric, as though mere words can make socialism work. However, economics involves real things and reality will hit New Yorkers soon enough, and they won’t like it.

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Money Demand and Demonetization: Concluding Comments

Professor Bagus concludes his arguments regarding the effects of the hypothetical close of Argentina’s central bank.

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Russia claims capture of key city of Pokrovsk. Kiev denies.

The city's capture would represent Kiev's greatest setback on the front line since the fall of Avdiivka in February 2024.

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Monetary Tyranny: How Legal Tender Laws Paved the Way and How Competition Sets Us Free

By making paper money legal tender, the government shut the door on sound money. Repealing legal tender laws is the first step back to liberty.

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A Chance to Double Your Gift!

Give today and double your gift to the Mises Institute.

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Is the CIA Targeting Mexico’s President?

The recent "protests" against Scheinbaum were astroturfed. Why? It may be that Scheinbaum's efforts against the cartels are upsetting the CIA which has long allied itself with drug lords.

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The Importance of Using Words Honestly

Modern progressive political narratives depend heavily upon the misuse of words, changing their meaning in hopes that people will forget what they originally meant. Politics corrupts our very language itself.

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Thanksgiving: Bradford’s 1623 Reform: Necessity, Ideology, and the Emergence of Modern Economic Thought

The story of how the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock abandoned the common labor system and embraced private ownership is well known. While at first it affected a small community, William Bradford’s decision in favor of private enterprise would have a wide ranging effect.

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Axios: Social Security’s day of reckoning is nearly here

In the end, Fedgov will just print more money and raise taxes. Social security will be preserved by politicians to ensure that elected officials don't lose the votes of pensioners.

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WaPo: “Why you may not want lower prices as much as you think you do”

New WaPo piece is a tour de force of bad economics on the "dangers" of deflation.

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Charles de Montalembert: A Forgotten Pillar of Classical Liberalism

Although classical liberalism was imperfect, especially with its emphasis upon “limited” government, nonetheless, it provided at least a glimpse of a free society. We also should continue the heroes of classical liberalism.

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Bitcoin falls below $85K

CBS: The cryptocurrency dropped more than 8% in the last 24 hours alone, falling to $84,096 as of 11:15 a.m. on Monday.

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Trump calls for regime change in Venezuela

According to Australia's Sky News, Donald Trump told Nicolás Maduro in call he must leave Venezuela in order to save himself and his family.

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US Labs Breeding Deadly Foreign Ticks in Bid for mRNA Vaccines

Likely: if a tick "accidentally" escapes from the US lab, then the federal government will mandate mRNA vaccines for all US livestock.

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Zohran Mamdani’s Socialism Flunks Basic Economics

New York’s mayor-elect believes he can implement socialist policies through sheer rhetoric, as though mere words can make socialism work. However, economics involves real things and reality will hit New Yorkers soon enough, and they won’t like it.

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Contagion

Politicians and central bankers invoke "contagion" to demand more power and money, while their interventions cause the very fragility they decry.

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