Category Archive: 6b.) Mises.org

How to Change the World: Entrepreneurship versus Politics

Entrepreneurship is a voluntary undertaking that causes change by providing value. No force, no threats, and no coercion are involved. It is market action fully in line with our libertarian ideals. And it provides alternatives, and produces variety.

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How Democratic Socialism Created California’s Housing Crisis

Chris Calton links California's housing crisis to three books published in the 1960s that spawned three ideological movements, each of which handed activists and bureaucrats new tools to block development and destroy private property rights one permit hearing at a time.

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How Antitrust Populists Drove Spirit Airlines Out of Business

Antitrust populists claimed blocking the Spirit–JetBlue merger would protect competition and consumers. But their effort entirely misdiagnosed the problem with the airline industry, leading to an intervention that strengthened the very oligopoly they set out to fight.

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The MBS Slope n’ Swap

If executed perfectly, this swap allows the Fed to neutralize a shrinking money supply by swapping $2 trillion in mortgages for $2 trillion in government debt.

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Vote Harder? Why Secession Is the Only Answer to the American Megastate

The populist “victory” of the Trump administration is perhaps the best evidence yet that a strategy of “vote harder” is simply not going to lead to any significant change in the power of the regime.

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Is Libertarianism Incoherent?

Philosopher Matt Zwolinski has declared libertarianism to lack any coherent standards. Zwolinski’s confusion is the result of his rejection of libertarianism as outlined by Murray Rothbard and others based upon free markets based on individual rights.

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When the Federal Government Subsidized Robberies

The government created a market for stolen goods, paid criminals cash for five months, watched robberies spike, arrested everyone at a mafia-themed party.

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Fukuyama Was Wrong; History Did Not End

Francis Fukuyama wrote The End of History more than 30 years ago, believing that the fall of the communist bloc would lead to a more peaceful world. We are still waiting for that moment of peace.

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How Antitrust Populists Drove Spirit Airlines Out of Business

Antitrust populists claimed blocking the Spirit–JetBlue merger would protect competition and consumers. But their effort led to an intervention that strengthened the very oligopoly they set out to fight.

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Vote Harder? Why Secession Is the Only Answer to the American Megastate

The populist “victory” of the Trump administration is perhaps the best evidence yet that a strategy of “vote harder” is simply not going to lead to any significant change in the power of the regime.

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The MBS Slope n’ Swap

If executed perfectly, this swap allows the Fed to neutralize a shrinking money supply by swapping $2 trillion in mortgages for $2 trillion in government debt.

Read More »

Fukuyama Was Wrong; History Did Not End

Francis Fukuyama wrote The End of History more than 30 years ago, believing that the fall of the communist bloc would lead to a more peaceful world. We are still waiting for that moment of peace.

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The Justice Department Indicts the Ministry of Love

The recent DOJ indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center might be controversial, but what is not controversial is that the SPLC engaged in conduct that was more reminiscent of the Ministry of Love in 1984 than protecting someone’s civil rights.

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Raising Taxes on the Wealthy Sounds Simple—Until They Leave

States like California are learning this in real time, as high-income earners relocate in response to rising tax pressure and growing fiscal uncertainty.

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When the Federal Government Subsidized Robberies



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Is Libertarianism Incoherent?

Philosopher Matt Zwolinski has declared libertarianism to lack any coherent standards. Zwolinski’s confusion is the result of his rejection of libertarianism as outlined by Murray Rothbard and others based upon free markets based on individual rights.

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Get Your Free Copy of Anatomy of the State!

To celebrate The Year of Rothbard, we're giving away some of his most radicalizing and influential books. Get your copy of our first offering, Anatomy of the State.

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Get Your Free May Rothbard Giveaway Anatomy of the State!

To celebrate The Year of Rothbard, we're giving away some of his most radicalizing and influential books. Get your copy of our first offering, Anatomy of the State, before May 31.

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The Precious Paper Problem: The Divergence in Western Bullion Markets

Gold markets have been volatile, to put it mildly, and the drama isn’t over. Unfortunately, governments are so involved in the gold markets that true market prices are hard to find.

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Government Kills the Spirit



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