Category Archive: 6b.) Mises.org
Preparing for War
Why is gold at a record high? How does modern mercantilism fuel today’s tensions? Are we all just pawns in a much bigger game?
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Energy Holodomor
At first glance, it might seem extreme—even offensive—to compare anti-fossil fuel climate policies to Stalin’s deliberate starvation of millions during the Holodomor. But in truth, the comparison may be unfair— to Stalin.
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To Veatch His Own
As a bookend to last week‘s critical article on Thomistic Aristotelianism of Alasdair MacIntyre, Dr. David Gordon in Friday Philosophy scrutinizes the libertarian-tolerant philosopher Henry B. Veatch. Dr. Gordon finds Veatch‘s arguments much more tolerable.
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Musk v. Trump, Trump v. Courts, and Palantir v. Us
On this episode of Power and Market, the group discusses the fallout from Musk's fight with Trump, recent reporting on Palantir contracts, and how the courts are not interested in protecting rights.
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A Different Perspective on Costa Rica’s Traffic Disaster
Traffic jams are so frequent that many Costa Ricans have adjusted their routines to deal with this phenomenon, treating it like a chronic illness.
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What Science Can’t Decide for You: Masks, Data, and Individual Liberty
Modern neoclassical economics is based upon the physical sciences, which Austrian economists recognize is an inappropriate way to explain economic phenomena. Ludwig von Mises recognized this fraudulence, calling it “scientism.”
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Why the US Legacy Media Is Worse than Useless
The so-called White House “coverup” of former President Joe Biden‘s dementia was really a coverup by the legacy media, which worked with White House officials to ensure Americans would not know the truth.
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Fed Beige Book: The Economy In Half of the Nation Is Getting Worse
The Federal Reserve System released its May 2025 Beige Book yesterday, and the Fed has stopped painting a cheerful picture of the US economy.
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A Golden Share Will Not Make America Great Again
Government involvement in our lives is getting more entrenched since Trump took office. He campaigned on the opposite. The result will be economic stagnation, recessions, or even depressions. To ensure a strong economy, government should get out of the way.
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From Oversight to Monopoly: The Rise of the Accreditation Cartel
Accreditation in higher education began as a private effort to identify academic quality. Then the federal government took over the process and demanded that accreditation be based upon political standards.
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The Myth of Fed Independence
Jonathan Newman joins Ryan McMaken to talk about the history behind the myth of "Fed independence." The Fed has never been politically independent of the US government, and it has enthusiastically helped fund the US government both in wartime and in peacetime.
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Nominalism and Bad Economics
Nominalist ideas influenced the scientific revolution, shaping its departure from metaphysics, its mechanistic perspective, and the mathematization of all sciences. This paradigm has brought about some errors in economic thinking.
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The Federal Judiciary’s War on Trump Is Not About Protecting Us from Government Overreach
As President Trump racks up defeat after defeat before the federal courts, the legacy media claims that federal judges are protecting us from government overreach. In reality, government overreach as we know it has been made possible by the federal judiciary.
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The Optimal Supply of Money: A Simple Argument
How much money does an economy need in circulation to function? Austrians believe that a growing economy does not need a growing supply of money, which sets Austrian economics apart from other schools of economic thought.
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Trump’s Trade Trilemma
While President Trump rails against US trade deficits, he forgets that they are due to the fact that the US dollar is the world‘s reserve currency. This, in turn, encourages deficit spending and a bloated national debt.
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DiLorenzo talks about the Fed on “Behind The Deep State”
Thomas DiLorenzo joins the New American's Alex Newman to discuss " Federal Reserve: The Ultimate Deep State Tool of Control & Destruction"
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Why a Gold Standard is Silently Coming Back to the States
Thomas DiLorenzo joins CapitalCosm to discuss the growing interest in gold at the state level
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Why Lending Money (at Interest) Is Not Usury in the Modern World
In contrast to an ancient agrarian economy, the developing economy presented many risks and costs for lenders, and the idea of what was fair and just in money lending had to change.
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