Category Archive: 6b.) Mises.org

Rethinking “Sticky Prices” and Monetary Disequilibrium

Bob Murphy and Jonathan Newman walk through his claim that real‑world exchanges clear markets—even with supposedly “sticky” prices—and what that implies for money, contracts, inventories, and unemployment statistics.

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The Architecture of Peace: How Markets Transform Conflict into Cooperation

As Americans celebrate the destructive wars that helped shape this country, we also remember that free markets promote peace and individual liberty.

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On Veterans Day, Remember the Lies That Filled Military Cemeteries

A few hours studying the lessons of history can prevent heaps of grave-digging in the coming years. None of the veterans we celebrate on Veterans Day died protecting freedom in the US.

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Trump’s 50-Year Mortgage Will Bring More Inflation and Corporate Bailouts

Total mortgage debt will increase as actual ownership in equity will go down. If homeownership does increase, it will be “ownership” of the sort where the homeowner has little to no actual equity.

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What Would Hayek and Mises Think about Mamdani?

Based on their writings, what insights do Hayek and Mises provide about the recent election of Mamdani?

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In Praise of Pat Buchanan

For Rothbard, war was the most important political issue, and Pat Buchanan has always supported peace.

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Rothbard: World War I as the Triumph of Progressive Intellectuals

November 11 was once known as Armistice Day, the day set aside to celebrate the end of WWI. In this essay Rothbard discusses the war as the triumph of several Progressive intellectual strains from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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The Logic of Hyperinflation: A Rejoinder to Hülsmann

Philipp Bagus responds to Hülsmann’s prior response. The debate is over whether closure of Argentina’s central bank would cause an inflationary crisis.

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Innovation Is Not the Key Driver of Economic Growth

Contra the recent winners of the Nobel Memorial Prize in economics, free markets, private savings, and entrepreneurship not so-called innovation, is what drives a market economy.

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On Resisting Evil

We libertarians may be anti-state, but that we are emphatically not anti-society or opposed to the real world, however contaminated it might be.

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The Environmental Costs of AI are Overblown

Environmentalists are at it again, this time claiming that AI centers will create environmental disasters all over the country. Once again, they exaggerate greatly.

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Silver: Manipulation or Fundamentals?

Is silver “manipulated,” or are fundamentals doing the work? Mark Thornton sifts the evidence and finds a simpler story.

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Lessons From Mises on Resolving the History Wars

Despite the claims from many historians that they just report the facts, the study of history is highly ideological and historians often depend upon narratives. Mises pointed out another way in his Theory and History.

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Stablecoins: The US Dollar’s Unexpected Lifeline

If stablecoins continue to expand, the architecture of monetary control will inevitably change.

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Ronald Reagan: An Autopsy

How did Murray Rothbard view Ronald Reagan's legacy? A mood of blind "feel-good" Americanism, entrenched big government, and the evisceration of libertarian gains—leaving only one positive (repealing the 55 mph speed limit).

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Hobbes’s Accidental Case Against the State

If Hobbes is right about human nature, then he is wrong about the state as a solution. Ironically, his key arguments for the state are actually key reasons against it.

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Moving at a High Speed toward an Economic Abyss

As the US economy slowly deteriorates, the government's response is to intervene and to inflate. This does not end well.

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Ilana Mercer on the Rape of Palestinian Men By IDF & Israeli Security Forces

The greater goal of Israel’s legal apparatus is to fend off charges of genocide and war-crimes in international courts of law. Article by Ilana Mercer.

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Gunning for Kagan

A sympathetic case for the America First Committee and their opposition to America’s entry into World War II comes from a surprising source.

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The European economy is stagnating as German economy falls flat again

Europe's economy has grown by a modest 0.2% in the third quarter, according to official figures released Thursday.

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