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Napoleon’s 1812 Russian Campaign: Masterclass in Pigheadedness

2025-12-04

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2025-12-04

Europe’s leaders apparently learned nothing from Napoleon’s disastrous 1812 campaign, and they now seem determined to pursue war with Russia.

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The Decline of Developed Nations’ Fiat Money

2025-12-04

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2025-12-04

We are living through a historical monetary change. The first nation to adopt sound money and fiscal policies will win. The rest will lose.

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The Inevitable Decline of Developed Nations’ Fiat Money

2025-12-04

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2025-12-04

We are living through a historical monetary change. The first nation to adopt sound money and fiscal policies will win. The rest will lose.

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The Lane Train (And the Rest of College Football Madness) Has Been Fueled by Easy Money

2025-12-03

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2025-12-03

The Lane Kiffin saga has dominated sports headlines this past week, highlighting the sea changes that have come over college sports—an especially college football—in the past decade. Much of this change is being driven by the easy money regime of the Federal Reserve.

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Metals, Black Swans, and the Next Bust

2025-12-03

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2025-12-03

In a special midweek episode of the Minor Issues podcast, Mark Thornton appears on Palisades Gold Radio with Stijn Schmitz.

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Karl Popper: Critique, Science, and the Fragility of Freedom

2025-12-03

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2025-12-03

Liberty is not a luxury good. It is necessary for civilization to thrive and the end of liberty will also be the end of civilization. Karl Popper understood that as well as anyone who has lived.

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Federal Interest Payments Surge to New Highs as Trump Spending Rises Yet Again

2025-12-03

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2025-12-03

We are unlikely to see any significant departure from the overall trend of rising spending and deficits.

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

2025-12-03

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2025-12-03

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

2025-12-03

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2025-12-03

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

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Stop the Drive to War with Venezuela

2025-12-03

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2025-12-03

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

2025-12-02

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2025-12-02

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

2025-12-02

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2025-12-02

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

2025-12-02

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2025-12-02

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.

2025-12-02

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2025-12-02

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

2025-12-02

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2025-12-02

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!

2025-12-01

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2025-12-01

Give today and double your gift to the Mises Institute.

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Is the CIA Targeting Mexico’s President?

2025-12-01

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2025-12-01

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

2025-12-01

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2025-12-01

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

2025-12-01

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2025-12-01

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

2025-12-01

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2025-12-01

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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