Low interest rates are a type of subsidy to home prices, and rising prices reflect falling mortgage rates.
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Category Archive: 6b.) Mises.org
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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Mexico’s Energy Sector Goes Backward
The government argues that restoring state control protects Mexico’s resources from foreign exploitation and ensures that profits benefit Mexican citizens. However, removing competition and transparency lead to inefficiencies, increased costs, and an unreliable energy supply.
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Trump pens handwritten note to Powell demanding lower interest rates
Trump continues his campaign demanding more inflation and the further devaluation of the dollar.
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Two Sixties Rock Songs That Celebrate Capitalism’s Greatest Creation
For millennia prior to the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, the vast majority of men, women, and children toiled from dusk to dawn and beyond just to keep body and soul together.
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Review of Greatness and Ruin by Ricardo Duchesne
Western Civilization has brought great advances in culture and economics, yet no one is more relentless in trying to destroy this civilization than western intellectuals. Ricardo Duchesne lays it out in his book, Greatness and Ruin.
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President Trump: End the War Now!
Unfortunately, President Trump has severely damaged his credibility by embroiling us in a war that is not our war.
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Review of Greatness and Ruin by Ricardo Duchesne
Western Civilization has brought great advances in culture and economics, yet no one is more relentless in trying to destroy this civilization than western intellectuals. Ricardo Duchesne lays it out in his book, Greatness and Ruin.
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Political Moralizing about the History of Slavery
Historically, slavery has always been held together by violence, including slavery in the US. However, the actual history of slavery here is much more complex than what modern academics want to admit.
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Political Moralizing about the History of Slavery
Historically, slavery has always been held together by violence, including slavery in the US. However, the actual history of slavery here is much more complex than what modern academics want to admit.
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The War They Promised Not to Start
They promised peace. What we got was another step toward global war and economic ruin. Mark Thornton isn’t buying the excuses.
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The “American Miracle” was the European Miracle on Steroids
America inherited the core institutional framework of Europe (especially Britain) but refined and amplified it through greater decentralization, lower taxation, and more expansive freedoms.
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Fumes of a Failed System: Bolivia’s Gasoline Crisis
Bolivians are finding out the hard way that socialist energy means price controls, and price controls mean fuel shortages and long gas station lines. Socialism excels in unkept promises and Bolivia is no exception to that rule.
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President Trump’s Interventionism
Regardless of your view of the current conflicts, one fact is indisputable. President Trump’s actions violate our traditional non-interventionist foreign policy.
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What the Modern Luddites Miss: Technology Makes Us Wealthier
Contrary to the expectation of the Luddites, we have only become wealthier than before and workers today enjoy much higher standards of living than workers in the past.
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Judge Nap on the coming police state
Napolitano: The argument is that less liberty produces more safety. That premise is historically and morally erroneous.
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Meyer Frank about Your Views
Although Meyer Frank was a National Review colleague of William F. Buckley, who loathed Murray Rothbard, Frank admired Rothbard and the two men often agreed on the current state of affairs. That is how Dr. David Gordon remembers him in today‘s Friday Philosophy.
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Frank Meyer about Your Views
Although Frank Meyer Frank was a National Review colleague of William F. Buckley, who loathed Murray Rothbard, Frank admired Rothbard and the two men often agreed on the current state of affairs. That is how Dr. David Gordon remembers him in today‘s Friday Philosophy.
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New York Socialists, Powell Attacks, and the 12 Days War
On this episode of Power and Market, the roundtable responds to Zohran Mamdani winning his primary in New York City, the rising MAGA attacks on the Fed, and the ceasefire in the Middle East.
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The Fed’s favorite inflation measure increased again
May PCE inflation rises to 2.3%. Remember when Powell predicted inflation would soon be back at 2 percent back in September?
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On Swiss National Bank
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SNB Sight Deposits: increased by 5.2 billion francs compared to the previous week
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SNB’s Chairman Schlegel: A few months of negative inflation wouldn’t be a problem
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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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