Peter Earle reviews Money and the Rule of Law: Generality and Predictability in Monetary Institutions. This edited volume delivers a timely critique of the Federal Reserve's discretionary monetary policy, arguing that a binding legal structure is needed to check its mission creep.
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Category Archive: 6b.) Mises.org
It’s the Root That’s Killing Us
For all of the talk about the need for “limited government,” we should always remember that the government has a legal monopoly on violence, and it uses that legal privilege often.
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QJAE: The Incompleteness of Central Planning
Even if all the practical challenges could be overcome, social economic calculation and planning are still impossible from a computation-theoretic point of view.
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Full text of Jerome Powell’s Jackson Hole speech
Rate cut to "stimulate" jobs? Powell: "while the labor market appears to be in balance, it is a curious kind of balance that results from a marked slowing in both the supply of and demand for workers."
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JLS: “Some Necessary Iconoclasm”: Contesting Liberty in the Progressive Era
Though progressive reformers were met with mixed success, the theoretical shift away from natural rights left a lasting legacy in the American political landscape.
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Israel’s Man Inside the CIA Betrayed the US, New Files Show
The files provide a fresh and often disturbing look at a spy described by historian Jefferson Morley as “a leading architect of America’s strategic relationship with Israel.”
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The Fed Is To Blame For The Dollar’s Recent Weakness. Still, There Is No Fiat Alternative.
Reports of “dollar death” are greatly exaggerated and fail to answer a simple question: What is the alternative?
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Does a Government Budget Surplus Contribute to National Savings?
Keynesian economists claim government budget surpluses are national savings, but real savings drive capital development. A surplus just means more revenue to the government, not the private economy.
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Go Ahead and Rage at Boomers, But the Problem Is the Entire Economic Order
Our corrupt economic system was created by people born decades before the Boomers were adults. The boomers just got lucky in a system that created vast wealth inequality.
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Trump White House takes a $10B stake in Intel
The very definition of socialism: government ownership of the means of production. The US federal government now owns 10% of intel.
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New-Home Sales Dip in July as Homebuilders Struggle To Entice Reluctant Buyers
The median sales price of new houses sold in July was $403,800, down 5.9% from a year earlier and the lowest price since November 2024.
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The Tariff Question in the Antebellum South
While many historians claim slavery was the sole cause of the Civil War, they are overlooking the role of tariffs in creating the economic and political divides between North and South before the war began.
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Disaster Prediction and Alerts Would Thrive in the Free Market
People assume (including most mainstream economists) assume that only a government bureaucracy can effectively deal with predicting disasters and alerting people in harm's way. However, this is an area of enterprise that is ripe for free markets.
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Charlie Kirk on Drugs: Addicted to Progressive Values?
Charlie Kirk blames cannabis for social decay, but Mark Thornton shows it’s Progressive policies, not personal liberty, that fuel addiction, welfare dependence, and urban breakdown.
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Review: Inflation and the Family: A Book Almost 300 Years in the Making
While Cantillon used the effects on family life to illustrate monetary theory, Degner lingers to employ sound monetary theory to trace out the effects on the family.
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Lincoln’s Distortion of the Declaration of Independence
In the Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln offered an interpretation of the Declaration of Independence which reinterpreted a declaration of secession into a justification for crushing secession.
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The Misesian, vol. 2, no. 4, 2025
In this issue of The Misesian, we take a look at how states use their fiscal and financial powers to convert the productivity and resources of the private sector into warmaking power for the state’s elites.
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Powell signals that the Fed is ready for rate cuts
Powell caves to administration pressure and predicts rate cuts. Meanwhile, asset prices soar on the news of more inflation.
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On Swiss National Bank
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SNB Sight Deposits: increased by 5.2 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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