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One of These Things Is Absolutely Not Like the Others

2025-09-01

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2025-09-01

While people might speak of the “business of government,” there really is no way to compare the two. Business is voluntary; government is coercive.

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Milton Friedman’s Guitar String Boom-Bust Cycle Theory

2025-09-01

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2025-09-01

In an attempt to explain business cycles, Milton Friedman came up with a plucked-string analogy. Like all Monetarist theories, however, this also had fatal flaws.

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Legislation Against Hierarchies

2025-09-01

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Peter Klein on Hayek for the 21st Century

2025-09-01

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2025-09-01

Peter Klein joins to discuss the Mises Institute's new book, Hayek for the 21st Century—exploring knowledge, competition, money, and why freedom beats central planning every time.

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The Significance of the Arlington Reconciliation Monument

2025-08-30

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2025-08-30

The restoration of the Reconciliation Monument at Arlington Cemetery is welcome news for those that realize the historical significance of this monument. Peace and reconciliation are always better than waging war.

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Market-Enhancers or Conspiracy-Enablers?

2025-08-30

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2025-08-30

Landlords have been using AI tools to get a better idea of market conditions and changes in the rental market. Naturally, the government is trying to end this practice under the false belief that such tools involve collusion.

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Hans Hoppe is No Revolutionary

2025-08-30

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2025-08-30

Hoppe is an exacting analyst of what works, not an architect of upheaval.

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Inflation and Food Debasement

2025-08-29

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2025-08-29

While monetary inflation has various economic effects—predictable and surprising, direct and indirect—this article seeks to explore the effects of monetary inflation on food. Specifically, debased currency leads to debased food.

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Intel, MAHA, and Trump’s Similarities with Richard Nixon

2025-08-29

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2025-08-29

Assistant editor Joshua Mawhorter joins Tho Bishop and Connor O’Keeffe on the Power and Market Podcast. The three discuss Trump’s acquisition of a stake in Intel, consider how monetary policy contributes to a lot of the national health problems MAHA is focused on, and react to Jerome Powell’s Jackson Hole speech.

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The Seccedent Rests

2025-08-29

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2025-08-29

In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon reviews The Woke Revolution: Up From Slavery and Back Again by H.V. Traywick, Jr., and finds Traywick’s observations have much credibility.

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The Money Supply Flatlines as Employment Cools and Delinquencies Rise

2025-08-29

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2025-08-29

As the Federal Reserve has delayed lowering the federal funds rate, the money supply has stabilized in recent months. This trend also reflects rising delinquencies, falling home sales, and stagnating employment.

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San Francisco’s Black Market for Housing

2025-08-29

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2025-08-29

San Francisco politicians have made it so difficult to build new housing that a black market for apartments has emerged.

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Trump’s Statism Intensifies

2025-08-29

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2025-08-29

Trump’s recent actions recall earlier episodes of US industrial policy, such as wartime production controls and financial crisis interventions, when governments assumed temporary stakes or direct control over private enterprise.

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Napoleon’s Continental System and the Human Cost of Economic Warfare

2025-08-29

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2025-08-29

In 1806 Napoleon issued the Berlin Decree, laying out his Continental System he hoped would starve Great Britain into submission through blockades and anti-trade policies. In the end, smuggling and outright avoidance of the law brought down his system and his empire.

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The Disaster that Was George W. Bush

2025-08-28

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2025-08-28

Few presidents—if any—in our lifetimes have done as much damage as George W. Bush did in his eight years in office. Unfortunately, a number of pundits are trying to rehabilitate his disaster of a presidency to contrast him to President Trump.

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Rock-Paper-Scissors, Government-Style

2025-08-28

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2025-08-28

The popular game, Rock-Paper-Scissors, operates according to a firm set of rules. However, when government sets the rules or refuses to properly enforce rules, then so-called limited government simply turns into a government power play.

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The Real Problem with Trump’s Intel Deal

2025-08-28

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2025-08-28

The federal government taking an ownership stake in Intel is neither a promising new approach to governance nor an unprecedented leap into economic fascism.

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Federal Land Ownership Hampers Native Prosperity

2025-08-28

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2025-08-28

American Indian reservations have some of the worst poverty rates in the nation, which increases calls for even more federal government intervention. However, it is the intervention itself that is creating the poverty in the first place.

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Gerrymandering and Representative Democracy

2025-08-28

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2025-08-28

Gerrymandering is a symptom of the failure of representative democracy. Political minorities are surrounded by others who overwhelm their votes and elect politicians who do not represent anyone but themselves.

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The Real Problem with Trump’s Intel Deal

2025-08-27

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2025-08-27

The federal government taking an ownership stake in Intel is neither a promising new approach to governance nor an unprecedented leap into economic fascism. It’s simply Trump embracing the corrupt status quo he ran against with a superficial rebrand.

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