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Common Sense, Then and Now

2025-02-16

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2025-02-16

Today, I will sign a series of historic executive orders. With these actions, we will begin the complete restoration of America and the revolution of common sense. It’s all about common sense. — President Donald Trump’s inaugural address, January 20, 2025 (emphasis added)Presidents other than Trump have invoked the appeal of “common sense” in their inaugural address, though, in the case of George W. Bush, it carried the message of perpetual war:We...

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Local Governments in China Bankrupt?

2025-02-16

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That's a big problem for Xi

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USAID ES YA EL MAYOR CASO DE CORRUPCIÓN DE AMERICA

2025-02-15

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¡El mayor fraude de la historia! USAID desvió el 93% de fondos para manipular elecciones y financiar ideologías radicales. Te animo a suscribirte a mi canal y te invito a seguirme en mis redes sociales: ☑ Twitter - https://twitter.com/dlacalle ☑ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/lacalledanie ☑ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/dlacalle ☑ Página web - https://www.dlacalle.com ☑ Mis libros …

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China’s ineffective taxation?

2025-02-15

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Guess what, it hurts your pocket book too!

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The Fed Has Stopped Pretending that Price Inflation Is Going Away

2025-02-15

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2025-02-15

At its September 2024 meeting, the Fed’s FOMC cut the target federal funds rate by a historically large 50 basis points and then justified this cut on the grounds that “The Committee has gained greater confidence that inflation is moving sustainably toward 2 percent, and judges that the risks to achieving its employment and inflation goals are roughly in balance.”The FOMC again cut the target rate in November and then again in December. Each time,...

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Tariff Increases vs. Tax Cuts

2025-02-15

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2025-02-15

What is the Mises Institute? The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property...

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The Fallacy of the “Public Sector”

2025-02-14

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2025-02-14

[This article is excerpted from Economic Controversies, chapter 21, “The Fallacy of the ‘Public Sector’” (2011). It originally appeared in the New Individualist Review (Summer, 1961): 3–7. Editor’s note: Various media outlets are reporting that the Trump administration has cut more than 100,000 federal jobs in recent days. The total may even be greater than 200,000. Naturally, the regime’s defenders repeatedly tell us that this all means a great...

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VON DER LEYEN AMENAZA A TRUMP Y SALE HUMILLADA

2025-02-14

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Von der Leyen critica a Trump por los aranceles, pero la UE impone aún mayores barreras a EE. UU. mientras ahoga su propia industria con políticas internas destructivas. Te animo a suscribirte a mi canal y te invito a seguirme en mis redes sociales: ☑ Twitter - https://twitter.com/dlacalle ☑ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/lacalledanie ☑ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/dlacalle ☑ Página web - https://www.dlacalle.com ☑ Mis libros en...

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The Panic of 1819: Rothbard v. Browning

2025-02-14

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2025-02-14

The Panic of 1819 was one of the first major economic and financial crises in American history. The panic led to widespread bank failures, unemployment, and distress, particularly in the western states. For decades, the only significant work to have examined this event in any depth was Rothbard’s The Panic of 1819: Reactions and Policies. Now, Rothbard finally has some company in Andrew Browning’s The Panic of 1819: The First Great Depression. And...

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Osama bin Laden’s Secret Weapon: Economic Literacy

2025-02-14

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2025-02-14

While acknowledging his great evils, future strategists and historians will one day likely recognize Osama bin Laden’s strategic acumen. With minimal resources or technology, Osama bin Laden managed to create immense socioeconomic damage and nearly destroy both of his main enemies—the “godless” Communist Soviet Union and the Zionism-supporting United States. Bin Laden achieved this using only one simple weapon, a basic understanding of economics,...

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Truth and Reconciliation: Be Careful What You Wish For

2025-02-14

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2025-02-14

An early mentor once warned me, “If the public knew the truth, the markets would be cut in half.” Decades later the stock market has soared tenfold, but so has the deceit.We have a new administration coming in with a central promise of “truth.” Trump has placed what some call “radicals” in charge of key agencies and departments. The good news: this bold strategy may be the only way to cut through the noise to find the truth. The challenge: the...

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A spoonful of tariffs make the economy go round?

2025-02-14

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Birthright Citizenship Is as Constitutional as Roe v. Wade

2025-02-14

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2025-02-14

What is the Mises Institute? The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property...

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Unpacking the Document that Spells Out Trump’s Tariff Strategy

2025-02-14

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2025-02-14

What is the Mises Institute? The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property...

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The Technological Revolution

2025-02-14

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2025-02-14

The technological revolution—spearheaded by advances in robotics and generative artificial intelligence (AI)—is poised to reshape industries, redefine job roles, and challenge traditional labor markets. While the disruptive potential of these innovations raises concerns about widespread job displacement, the evidence suggests a more nuanced reality: these technologies can complement human labor, create new job opportunities, and enhance...

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How Smart Nations Exploit Trade Wars | Jacob Shapiro

2025-02-14

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Sign up for my free weekly newsletter here: https://www.mauldineconomics.com/go/JM563V/YTB My friend Jacob Shapiro is back for another Global Macro Update interview, and he sees ample opportunities for investors who can tune out white-noise media and look around: "If you go back to previous eras like this, the 1890s is the one that I like to compare it to… These are times of incredible technological innovation… we're on a total energy...

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Robert Paul Wolff on Anarchism

2025-02-14

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2025-02-14

The death last month of the philosopher Robert Paul Wolff is a fitting occasion to call to the attention of libertarians, and particularly libertarian anarchists, his short book In Defense of Anarchism, originally published in 1970 and issued in a revised edition in 1976. In the book, Wolff argues that the state is illegitimate.To understand his argument, we first need to know what he means by a state. He holds that “the state is a group of persons...

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Warum Milei die ganze Welt transformieren könnte | Interview Prof. Bagus

2025-02-14

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Mileis Argentinien ist dabei die Welt zu revolutionieren | Interview mit Milei-Insider Prof. Dr. Philipp Bagus Prof. Dr. Bagus' Buch "Die Ära Milei": https://amzn.eu/d/d0AI1bK Freitagstipps abonnieren: https://thorstenwittmann.com/klartext-yt Ich habe eine Zeit in Buenos Aires gelebt. Es war eine wunderschöne Zeit und ich habe das argentinische Wirtschaftschaos mit Inflation und Wirtschaftsprotektionismus am eigenen Leib erfahren. Ich...

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The Fed Has Its Eyes on Stablecoin

2025-02-14

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2025-02-14

With Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) banned by executive order, the Fed may have more incentive to explore alternatives in the cryptocurrency market. This week, Fed Governor Christopher J. Waller gave a speech titled: Reflections on a Maturing Stablecoin Market, sharing his thoughts on the potential role of the Federal Reserve in the private stablecoin market.According to the Governor:For the purposes of this speech, I define stablecoins as a...

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Populism and Classical Liberalism: Is There an Intersection?

2025-02-14

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2025-02-14

I write here to offer a teaser for a video on populism and classical liberalism, a lecture which I gave for the Bruno Leoni Institute in Milan. I redid the lecture on my own, and the recording has been graciously posted by Glenn Diesen:YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMMqrwZISjYThe slide-deck, which contains links, is here.Here are some points and slides from the lecture. I hope you find the video instructive!The deep state and its...

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