Category Archive: 6b.) Mises.org

Diploma Inflation and the Erosion of Academic Signaling

Economists have said that a higher education degree is a form of “signaling” by the person holding the diploma. Thanks to government attempts to make higher education readily available, the value of a college degree has been severely degraded.

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What the Biden Health Coverup Reveals About the Political Class

The reaction to Biden’s cancer announcement reveals how little trust the public has in the people who spent years claiming that Biden’s mental decline was fabricated by right-wing propagandists. That lack of trust is well deserved.

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Adam Smith Cannot the Win Tariff War Without Capital

The Wall Street Journal editors have made a monumental error in judgment. In a recent piece, they announced that the Trump administration has lost its trade war against Adam Smith, but there must be free trade in capital goods, not just consumer goods.

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The American Federal Government 21st Bankruptcy Show

Bankruptcy in the short term is painful. In the long term, it is cleansing decades of poor federal government choices.

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Gold/Silver Ratio Signaling Rapid Reversal and Recession Coming

Mark Thornton appears on Liberty and Finance with Elijah K. Johnson.

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Marxist Theories of Oppression

Academic scholars tend to use Marxian terms when pointing out what they see as conditions of “oppression,” believing that race and class determine outcomes. However, the real world is not so abstract and things often are not what Marxists believe to be true.

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The Righteous Cause Conquers the World

Brion McClanahan dismantles the so-called "righteous cause" narrative that shapes modern American history and foreign policy, tracing its roots from Sumner and Lincoln to the war in Iraq.

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Reconstruction Reconsidered

Wanjiru Njoya exposes how federal intervention fueled racial conflict and dismantled the South's social order—challenging modern myths with historical truth.

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Mercantilism in America: The Trouble with Self-Sufficiency

President Trump has invoked the ancient fallacies of mercantilism in fashioning his protectionist trade policies. We will find that mercantilism is just as harmful today than it was hundreds of years ago when it first became Britain‘s national policy.

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MAHA is a Movement of Government Overreach

Robert Kennedy‘s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) crusade is being promoted as a government-led effort to eliminate health hazards in food and medicine. However, MAHA depends upon government overreach, which ultimately will undermine any good MAHA does.

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The Dark Enlightenment Is a Trojan Horse

The "dark enlightenment" is simply a variation on the technocracy of "sustainable development" or the "great reset." Technocratic control is the goal in both cases.

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Spain in the Dark: Chronicle of a Foretold Blackout

Centralizing electricity management is probably a mistake. It makes us collectively vulnerable to a single failure or attack and also inefficient.

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MMT’s Barely-Hidden Totalitarian Bias

While Austrian economists have engaged Modern Monetary Theorists on economic terms, one should not forget that this theory promotes totalitarian governance.

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Marx’s Economic Forecasts: Over 150 Years of Failure

Karl Marx still is revered by modern academics as a prophet. However, given Marx‘s penchant for making false predictions, at best he would be a false prophet, someone whose word cannot be trusted.

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Economic Growth and the Stock Market

People often confuse economic growth with growth in the stock market, but while these two things can be related, that is not always the case, especially during inflationary times.

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The “New Economists” and Military Keynesianism

Joseph Salerno reveals how JFK's economists used war spending and deficits to erode liberty under the guise of stability and growth.

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Origins of the National (Military) Science Foundation

Peter Klein uncovers the hidden costs, cronyism, and political agendas behind the National Science Foundation and federal research funding.

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The Importance of Ralph Raico’s Foreign Policy Revisionism

Ryan McMaken discusses Ralph Raico’s critique of war propaganda and why revisionism is essential for reclaiming peace and liberty.

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Examining Pentagon Lies in Real Time: A Personal Perspective, a Public Prescription

From Vietnam to Iraq, Pentagon insider Karen Kwiatkowski reveals firsthand how government lies drive America's wars—and how courageous whistleblowers fight back with truth.

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The Fed Is Buying Treasurys, and Hoping You Won’t Notice

The U.S. Federal Reserve just pulled off something stealthy — over four days last week, without fanfare, the Fed vacuumed up $43.6 billion in U.S. Treasurys.

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