Category Archive: 6b.) Mises.org

Elon Musk says he’ll back Rep. Thomas Massie

Musk signaled he would donate to the Kentucky Republican’s 2026 reelection campaign on X when he responded “I will” to a post asking who would be backing Massie’s congressional bid.

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The American Revolution Was a Culture War

The Boston Tea Party was an opening act in what came to be a violent culture war and war of national liberation. And it helps us understand how America in 2020 could become as bitterly divided as America during the revolution.

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The American Revolution Was a Culture War

The Boston Tea Party was an opening act in what came to be a violent culture war and war of national liberation. And it helps us understand how America could become as bitterly divided as it was during the revolution.

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Trump’s Strike Against Iran: Weapons of Mass Overreach

Another president, another “strike for peace.” Trump’s assault on Iran wasn’t about safety. It was another step in the long tradition of unchecked executive power and endless war waged without consent.

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Trump’s Strike Against Iran: Weapons of Mass Overreach

Trump’s Iran policy should focus on the dangers of military escalation, the human and economic costs of sanctions, the expansion of executive power, and the moral hazards of interventionism.

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A Free Market Would Preclude Today’s Headlines

Our media, higher education, and, of course, governments tell us that our social and economic problems are due to capitalism. Yet, what we see are governments bringing us inflation, chaos, and the horror of war. It's time we abandon the fiction that governments "serve the people."

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A Free Market Would Preclude Today’s Headlines

Our media, higher education, and, of course, governments tell us that our social and economic problems are due to capitalism. Yet, what we see are governments bringing us inflation, chaos, and the horror of war. It's time we abandon the fiction that governments "serve the people."

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Establishment Democrats Created the Conditions for A Socialist Victory

The democratic establishment is upset that socialist Zohran Mamdani beat their candidate, Andrew Cuomo, in New York City’s mayoral primary. But the blame for socialism’s rising popularity lies mostly on their own shoulders.

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No, Jared Polis Is Not America’s Most Libertarian Governor

Jared Polis is a savvy politician who is skilled at rewarding his political allies, but has little regard for the property and freedom of his constituents.

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Republicans and Big Government

Contrary to popular myth, every Republican president since and including Herbert Hoover has increased the federal government's size, scope, or power. Over the last one hundred years, of the five presidents who presided over the largest domestic spending increases, four were Republicans.

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Hanke Warns of the Danger of Current Deficits

Steve Hanke warns The Epoch Times of the dangers of the current trajectory of US fiscal policy.

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Rep. Thomas Massie says he has enough votes to block Big Beautiful Bill in House.

Let's hope he's right. Trump's BBB is a massive boondoggle that increases federal power and federal spending. Massie is one of the few good guys on this.

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Silent Cal Had a Lot to Say

His policies took more than a million people off the income tax rolls, and 98 percent of Americans paid no income tax at the end of his term. As a result, America prospered under Coolidge. Real economic growth averaged 7 percent per year while he was in office.

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Critics of Capitalism Misunderstand Economic Success

In a free society, legitimate economic success does not fall from the sky or come by force. Behind every fortune lies effort, risk, savings, time, discovery, validation, and social coordination.

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Methodological Individualism in Historical Analysis

To better understand history, we must understand how people thought and acted in the context of their times and the prevailing worldviews of that era. Unfortunately, modern historians insist on looking at US History from modern collectivists viewpoints.

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How Government Ruins 4th of July Travel

If we were to claim independence from the modern-day royalty of the beltway, the markets will ensure better holidays in the future.

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Unemployment Claims Reach the Highest Since 2018 (Ex Covid)

With the exception of the "covid panic" and the mandated lockdowns, etc., last week was the highest total for ongoing unemployment claims since early 2018:

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The Young Rothbard: An Uncomfortable Neoclassical Economist

Speaking at the recent Rothbard Graduate Seminar, Dr. Joseph Salerno traces Murray Rothbard‘s intellectual development while in the economics Ph.D. program at Columbia University. Rothbard was dissatisfied with the popular schools of thought until he discovered Austrian economics.

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A Big Beautiful Bill for the Military-Industrial Complex



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The Young Rothbard: An Uncomfortable Neoclassical Economist

Speaking at the recent Rothbard Graduate Seminar, Dr. Joseph Salerno traces Murray Rothbard‘s intellectual development while in the economics Ph.D. program at Columbia University. Rothbard was dissatisfied with the popular schools of thought until he discovered Austrian economics.

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