50-year mortgages are likely to increase the likelihood of more "owners" becoming underwater and walking away from their mortgages. This will lead to more bailouts for the financial sector. Taxpayers will pay the price.
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Category Archive: 6b.) Mises.org
CBS reports that Ukraine accepts the new peace proposal
"The Ukrainians have agreed to the peace deal," the U.S. official told CBS News. "There are some minor details to be sorted out but they have agreed to a peace deal."
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Families Are the Key to Building Alternatives to the State
From the perspective of the state, the ideal society is one composed of single parents raising a small number of children in irreligious households.
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Electricity Prices Rise as A.I. Data Centers Proliferate
AI data centers are key: Data centers are expected to consume anywhere from 6.7% to 12% of total U.S. electricity by 2028, up from 4.4% in 2023.
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Thanksgiving: Celebrating the Birth of American Free Enterprise
In the wilderness of the New World, the Plymouth Pilgrims had progressed from the false dream of communism to the sound realism of capitalism.
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The Vacancy Tax
A vacancy tax is a charge imposed on property owners who leave residential or commercial properties unoccupied for a specified duration. As usual, a statist violation of property rights.
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Price correction “worse than 2008” coming to US housing market—analyst
Steeper cuts [to prices] will come later ... “It’s going to be worse.” Wright said she fears the government might be forced to step in as “the buyer of last resort.”
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Republicans Aren’t Actually Interested In Shrinking Government
The excitement of DOGE's early days has mostly dissipated, in large part because Republicans still completely accept the fallacious paradigm of their progressive opponents about how all these government programs are providing necessary services for the American people.
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We’re Approaching the “Blame the Consumer” Stage of the Boom-Bust Cycle
In a recession or a crisis, the right approach for individuals is to save. So too for the national economy. Saving does not cause the economy to fall into recession any more than more spending can save it from recession.
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Frédéric Bastiat: The Unseen Role of Intermediaries
Bastiat emphasized that much of what goes on in the economy involves things we don’t see directly. Intermediaries often fall into Bastiat’s category of things “not seen.”
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Intellectual Property Laws Violate the (Free) Market
No one can legitimately create a monopoly on ideas. The problems of freedom are solved with more freedom and worsened with less.
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Families Are the Key to Building Alternatives to the State
From the perspective of the state, the ideal society is one composed of single parents raising a small number of children in irreligious households.
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History Is Not a Science
Some modern historians claim they are “doing science.” However, Ludwig von Mises in Theory and History decried what he saw as “scientism” instead of real scientific inquiry.
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Closing Argentina’s Central Bank: Concluding Comments
Dr. Hülsmann offers his concluding thoughts on his debate with Philipp Bagus regarding the monetary consequences of closing the central bank of Argentina.
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The economy is growing without adding many jobs in “no hire, no fire” economy
The data the Fed does have is presenting a picture of an uneven and wobbly economy. Job growth beat expectations last month but has cratered overall in 2025.
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The Shutdown Was a Game
The government failed to govern, but not by mistake, it was fully incentivized to do so.
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Mike Huckabee met with Israeli Spy
Huckabee lobbied for Pollard's release from prison, arguing that it's no big deal to spy for Israel which is supposedly "an ally."
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Does a Growing Economy Require Increases in the Money Supply?
It is an article of faith in mainstream economics that an economy cannot grow without a growing money supply. Yet, that is a false narrative, as increasing the supply of money over time ultimately sparks inflation and triggers business cycles.
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The NBER Framework to Asses Business Cycles Describes but Does not Explain Them
While the NBER collects economic data ostensibly to aid policymakers, the data it acquires is useless without proper economic theory to correctly interpret the numbers.
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Michael Burry launches substack on AI stock bubble.
The investor who shot to fame for calling the housing crash before 2008, has launched a Substack aiming to lay out in detail his bearish thesis on artificial intelligence.
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SNB Sight Deposits: increased by 1.7 billion francs compared to the previous week
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2025-07-31 – Interim results of the Swiss National Bank as at 30 June 2025
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SNB Brings Back Zero Percent Interest Rates
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Hold-up sur l’eau potable (2/2) : la supercherie de « l’hydrogène vert ». Par Vincent Held
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2025-06-25 – Quarterly Bulletin 2/2025
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