Category Archive: 6b.) Mises.org

Private Credit and the Infinite Regress of Financial Regulation

This is not a cycle of greed. It is spontaneous order doing what it always does: finding the path around the obstruction.

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The Market Keeps Escaping: Private Credit, Real Risk, and the Infinite Regress of Financial Regulation

This is not a cycle of greed. It is spontaneous order doing what it always does: finding the path around the obstruction.

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UK Equality Law Revamp Legislates Socialism

Forget freedom. The rage today in politics is equality, not the kind of equality that promotes liberty but rather the state attempting to force equal opportunities and outcomes. In the end, we get neither liberty nor equality.

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The Petrodollar Cracks, the Skyscraper Stalls, and the Commodity Firestorm

Even if peace breaks out tomorrow, the economic damage is done.

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Where California Went Wrong

Bill Anderson offers a ground-level view of California's decline, arguing that the state's deep entanglement of government with water, energy, housing, and transportation has created a self-reinforcing system where every new crisis produces more regulation, more spending, and fewer productive citizens.

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Hobbes’s State: “Why Are You Hitting Yourself?”

To complain against the state’s actions, argues Hobbes, is to ultimately complain against yourself because you originally authorized the state through social contract and the state represents you!

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Hobbes’s State: “Why Are You Hitting Yourself?”

To complain against the state’s actions, argues Hobbes, is to ultimately complain against yourself because you originally authorized the state through social contract and the state represents you!

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Unnatural Disasters: How the State Makes Wildfires Bigger and Deadlier

Connor O'Keeffe argues that California's wildfire crisis is not simply a climate story but a government failure story.

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Capital Theory and Liberty

Marxists have claimed that capital undermines human freedom. Ludwig von Mises, on the other hand, pointed out that capital developed within a free market is essential to personal liberty.

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Stove Selection Theory

Does the theory of natural selection undermine the view that ethic can be objective? Dr. David Gordon, in this week’s Friday Philosophy, takes on the theory using insights from philosopher David Stove.

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Tennessee lawmaker calls for Memphis to secede over redistricting

Rep. Antonio Parkinson (D) said ... “Let my people go. I’m deada‑‑ serious. If you’re constantly beating on us, let us out.”

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Paying Avaricious Uncle Sam: The Significance of the Tax of Taxes

The federal income tax is the crown jewel of a massive welfare-warfare state.

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What Happened to the University of California?

Peter Klein traces the ideological transformation of the UC system from a world-class research institution to a cautionary tale of government-subsidized capture.

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Where California Went Wrong

California has been seen as the nation’s “Promised Land” for many years, but in the past 25 years, people have left due to high housing costs and high taxes. The state’s future is about to become a lot worse, as socialists are rising in power here.

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Where California Went Wrong

California has been seen as the nation’s “Promised Land” for many years, but in the past 25 years, people have left due to high housing costs and high taxes. The state’s future is about to become a lot worse, as socialists are rising in power here.

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California’s Decline: A Warning to America

California was once a powerhouse for entrepreneurs and the middle class. Today, it's a cautionary tale of high taxes, overreaching bureaucrats, and crony capitalism. Is the rest of America next?

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The President Goes to War

Of course the president, like everyone, frequently protests his desire for peace. Everyone does this. And I think we may assume he is quite sincere about it.

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The Intelligence Trap: Why Smart People Defend Broken Systems

Why do broken political systems survive despite failures? Don’t blame stupid people; it’s the smart ones that keep these broken systems afloat.

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Say, Time, and the Divide Between Mises and Keynes

Ludwig von Mises differed with J.M. Keynes on just about every important economic issue. That Keynes is better known is not to his credit.

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The Great Gerrymander War

On this episode of Power & Market, Ryan, Tho, and Connor discuss the escalating battle over Congressional districts. As Republicans and Democrats engage in an arms race over gerrymandering, assisted by a new Supreme Court ruling over racial districts, is the facade of "representative democracy" finally slipping?

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