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Why the Regime Needs the Dollar to Be the Global Reserve Currency

2023-04-20

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2023-04-20

Even a partial weakening of the dollar's global demand will limit the US regime's ability to throw its weight around internationally. Yet Washington is unwilling to do what's necessary to prevent it.  Original Article: "Why the Regime Needs the Dollar to Be the Global Reserve Currency" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon.

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Austrian Economists and Empiricism

2023-04-20

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2023-04-20

Since its emergence in 1871, the Austrian school of economics has provided systematic opposition to empiricism in the development of economics. The Methodenstreit persists, even with different players. Several papers and publications have criticized the concept of economics based on empirical evidence. Positivism, and its different currents of thought, are consistently criticized by Austrian economists. But the roots of attempts to make research...

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What Will Our Energy Future Be? A Few Ideas

2023-04-19

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2023-04-19

With the government foolishly handicapping the oil and gas industries and pushing other alternatives, the future is not very bright.. Original Article: "What Will Our Energy Future Be? A Few Ideas" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon.

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The Failure of the Federal Reserve: The Covid Boom and Unnecessary Intervention

2023-04-19

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2023-04-19

The Federal Reserve’s failure to meet its own policy goals of price stability and growth has become increasingly evident in the current economic situation in the United States. The country is now facing recessionary fears after experiencing historic inflation due to the misinterpretation of the causes of the Great Depression. The perverse effects of expansionary monetary policies also reflect the failure of the institutional economic position which...

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Phil Simon on Tectonic Changes in the Workplace

2023-04-19

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2023-04-19

Austrian economics recognizes change as a constant and provides guidance for adapting to it and managing it. Change is changing for business — it’s faster and more fundamental in the digital age. Austrian economics can help even more as a result of its practical and realist approach to adaptation and continuous adjustment. Knowledge Capsule Change is changing. Change is a constant. You can think of the market in constant flux, as Mises...

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Wars Cost More Than You Think

2023-04-19

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2023-04-19

Ryan and Zachary talk about how wars are not nearly as cheap or economically harmless as many Americans seem to think. Rather, taxpayers must give up enormous amounts of resources to fund wars halfway across the globe that have little to do with actual defense. Americans are still paying interest on the trillions spent on Washington's many lost wars of recent decades. Additional Resources "On Paying for the Costs of War and War...

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Cancel Culture: The Digital Panopticon

2023-04-19

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2023-04-19

Like Bentham's panopticon, modern cancel culture is built upon fear and online bullying, making people police their own thoughts. Original Article: "Cancel Culture: The Digital Panopticon" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon.

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The Economics of Arts and Culture

2023-04-19

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2023-04-19

To describe anything in human life without the context of economics is to erase the reasoning behind why it even exists. Why do we need reasons for items and concepts to exist? Because it is helpful for every human to think critically about what is truly valuable in society and to give that human the best possible information to best serve the public. The arts are a fantastic aspect of our culture that display the talents of individuals for...

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Waco 30 Years Later: It Is Not an Atrocity if the Feds Do It

2023-04-19

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2023-04-19

Thirty years ago, FBI tanks smashed into the ramshackle home of the Branch Davidians outside Waco, Texas. After the FBI collapsed much of the building atop the residents, a fire erupted and 76 corpses were dug out of the rubble. Unfortunately, the American political system and media have never honestly portrayed the federal abuses and political deceit that led to that carnage. What lessons can today’s Americans draw from the FBI showdown on the...

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Canada’s Impotent Justice System Is the Product of Dysfunctional Canadian Democracy

2023-04-18

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2023-04-18

Violent crime is on the rise in Canada, and its progressive democracy is helpless to stop it. Further empowerment of the state makes things worse. Original Article: "Canada's Impotent Justice System Is the Product of Dysfunctional Canadian Democracy" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon.

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From Discipline to No Discipline: The Sorry Evolution of Modern Banking

2023-04-18

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2023-04-18

Every decade or so bank failures and the subsequent bailout response via central bank intervention appear. The latest jangling of depositor nerves involved US regional banks and a certain Swiss bank of great systemic importance. As James Grant writes in his book Bagehot: The Life and Times of the Greatest Victorian, “In economics, the most ostensibly rigorous of the social sciences, progress–and error, too–are cyclical; we keep stepping on the same...

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With the Trump Indictment, America Is a Step Closer to Being a Banana Republic

2023-04-18

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2023-04-18

Democratic politicians and supporters are cheering the Trump indictment, but the entire process has been so politicized that its legitimacy is easily called into question. Original Article: "With the Trump Indictment, America Is a Step Closer to Being a Banana Republic" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon.

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Arbitrary Use of Power: Punishing Those Who Expose Not-So-Secret Government Secrets

2023-04-18

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2023-04-18

Most readers might not remember Daniel Ellsburg, but for those of us who came of age during the Vietnam War, the maelstrom that formed around him and his actions helped to define that era. Ellsburg, of course, is famous because he leaked a number of internal government documents called the Pentagon Papers in which the writers expressed skepticism about the chances for U.S. success in the Vietnam War. Ellsburg chose to leak to the New York Times and...

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Money-Supply Growth Fell to a 50-Year Low in February. Will the Fed Panic?

2023-04-18

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2023-04-18

Money supply growth fell again in February, falling even further into negative territory after turning negative in November 2022 for the first time in twenty-eight years. February's drop continues a steep downward trend from the unprecedented highs experienced during much of the past two years. Since April 2021, money supply growth has slowed quickly, and since November, we've been seeing the money supply contract for the first time since the...

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Virtual Mises University 2023

2023-04-17

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2023-04-17

Join 2023's Virtual Mises University for only $25—or join free for Mises Institute Members (uses your promo code on the back of your Membership card).  For almost thirty years, Mises Institute scholars have presented at Mises University, a world-class, week-long, intensive event in Austrian Economics. Virtual Mises University is the online component of this seminar for students, professionals, business people, and absolutely anyone, anywhere, who...

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It Hurts to Pay for Strained China-USA Relations

2023-04-17

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2023-04-17

Since the Trump administration launched their trade war with China in 2018, “Trump tariffs” have continued to harm not only our international relationships but also the US economy and the pocketbooks of US consumers. Now as global relations with China intensify and we face a national economic downturn, it’s time for the United States to embrace a more cooperative approach to foreign trade and allow free markets to provide a remedy to our economic...

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It’s Not Paranoid to Worry about a Central Bank Digital Currency

2023-04-17

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2023-04-17

In a recent NYT column, economist Paul Krugman mocks Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who warned that a central bank digital currency (CBDC) would give the government too much power over Americans. Specifically, DeSantis argued that the feds could use a CBDC to further implement the “woke” agenda, penalizing Floridians if they bought too much gas or guns. Human Action Podcast: Krugman Says It's Paranoid to Worry About a Fed Digital Currency with...

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Endangering Washington’s Divine Right to Deceive

2023-04-17

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2023-04-17

Do Americans have the right to know if the $100 billion in their tax dollars that the Biden administration is delivering to Ukraine is being wasted? No, according to the U.S. Congress - which recently voted against creating an Inspector General to investigate whether handouts to the most corrupt government in Europe were being stolen. Do Americans have the right to know if their own government blew up the Nord Stream pipeline, the biggest act of...

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No, the Financial Crisis Is Not Over

2023-04-17

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2023-04-17

The collapse of California-based Silicon Valley Bank (and Signature Bank in New York) on March 10, 2023, sent shock waves through the international financial system. It not only made bank stocks and bank bonds fall sharply but also finally brought ailing banking giant Credit Suisse to its knees. The Swiss bank had to be rescued and was bought by UBS on March 19, 2023. In another wave of market fear, Deutsche Bank, another global systemically...

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Things Are Going Down

2023-04-15

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2023-04-15

Mark takes a look at the good news on price inflation and why it is better than reported, but probably short-lived. Other statistics are worsening and, amazingly, even landlords are starting to feel the pain! Be sure to follow Minor Issues at Mises.org/MinorIssues.

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