Category Archive: 6b.) Mises.org

Trump Suggests One of His Biggest Donors Cares More About Israel Than the US

Trump on Monday suggested that Miriam Adelson, one of his biggest donors during his 2024 campaign, “loves” Israel more than the United States.

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AI, Automation, and the Human Advantage

Bob breaks down the fears about AI-driven unemployment and shows why economic reasoning still favors human prosperity in a high-tech world.

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Is Trump Preparing for the Next Civil War, or Already Fighting It?

Karen Kwiatkowski: The civil war is ongoing, and Trump sits astride a state that is reacting far too late and with one hand tied behind its back.

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FAQ: Why America just bailed out Argentina with $20 billion

$20 billion US taxpayer dollars will be used to bail out a country led by Trump ally and State-of-Israel fanboy Javier Milei.

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Both silver and gold sail to new all-time highs

Gold broke through $4,100 per ounce for the first time on Monday, while silver rose above $52/oz, hitting another record high.

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Trump’s Rare Earth Metal Intervention

Many fans of Austrian economics know the MP Materials and US Rare Earth REM financing agreements will end badly with crony capitalism sourced from nonsense.

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How Double Standards Erode Free Speech

Free speech is not an ideological issue. As Murray Rothbard noted, it really is an issue tied to private property rights.

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Breaking Free From State Rule

The present US regime is far more tyrannical than the British government that supposedly was so intolerable that independence was the only way out. Perhaps it is time for another Declaration of Independence.

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Monetary Metals 101: How Gold and Silver Work in a Free Market

Gold and silver make sense—until government “helps.”

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The Noun Doctrine: Why Governments Prefer Enemies That Can’t Surrender

When the state declares war on an abstraction, it discovers the formula for perpetuity.

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Economics and the Infantilization of Culture

The yearning for a state-controlled system is not born of compassion for others but rather of infantile selfishness.

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Economics and the Infantilization of Culture

The yearning for a state-controlled system is not born of compassion for others but rather of infantile selfishness.

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When Pinker Doesn’t Know

In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon reviews Steven Pinker’s new book, When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows. As Dr. Gordon aptly points out, Pinker knows a lot less than he thinks he does.

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Taxes, War, and the State are Freedom’s Biggest Enemies

Ryan and political scientist Joseph Solis-Mullen talk about how taxes, war, and the state are all part of a centuries-old formula for impoverishing the productive class while enriching the government class.

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The Fed and Its “Neutral” Rates

Interest rates should be determined by the market, according to its needs, to operate efficiently and effectively distribute society’s financial resources.

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The “Acid Rain” Scare and the Science-Industrial Complex

“Science” is now indistinguishable from politics. As the “acid rain” hysteria showed back in the 1970s and 1980s, “follow the science” is just a political slogan, unrelated to actual science.

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Rothbard on the Constitution

"Overall, it should be evident that the Constitution was a counterrevolutionary reaction to the libertarianism and decentralization embodied in the American Revolution."

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The “Acid Rain” Scare and the Science-Industrial Complex

“Science” is now indistinguishable from politics. As the “acid rain” hysteria showed back in the 1970s and 1980s, “follow the science” is just a political slogan, unrelated to actual science.

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Is Bari Weiss at CBS a New Direction or a Misdirection?

Bari Weiss’s appointment to head CBS News has brought cries of anguish from the usual suspects on the left and approval from some on the right. But will she really bring the kind of change that will challenge the political establishment? Probably not.

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Going for Broke

Once upon a time, American firms built with the long term in view, and the government did not try to hinder them. Today, thanks to reckless federal government spending, we are living hand-to-mouth, accumulating massive debts, and soon enough will be broke.

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