30-year Treasury yield spikes to 5.09%, 10-year yield hits 4.61%. 10-yr yield is back at 2005 levels.
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Category Archive: 6b) Austrian Economics
Interest Rates Rise Again as Treasury Auction Comes Up Short
On Wednesday, the Treasury bonds auction was so weak that 20-year and 30-year yields continued to rise as investors expect a rising wave of mounting federal deficits and debt.
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Thomas Malthus’s Disciples: The Pro-Natalists
Progressives have repeated the Malthus theme of overpopulation for six decades. However, the real demographic problem facing modern industrial nations has been the dearth of population growth fueled by an inflation culture.
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April home sales were the lowest since 2009
Sales of previously owned homes in April declined 0.5% from March. That is the slowest April pace since 2009. Jobs and incomes aren't nearly as good as we've been told.
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The Rise of War Propaganda and the Defeat of Laissez-Faire
In this lecture from the Mises Institute's recent Conference on War Revisionism, McMaken looks at how classical liberals' pro-peace foreign policy was defeated by a century of war propaganda beginning with the First World War.
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Thomas Massie denounces the 1100+ page bill that no one has read
Massie is right, as usual. Most Republicans will vote for it anyway, and continue the US slide into bankruptcy.
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Airlines brace for the summer of hell
A stagnating economy means fewer vacations and less air travel. Airlines are feeling it.
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Deflation: Who’s Afraid of Falling Prices?
In a sound monetary system and a free market, overall prices would generally fall as the economy grows faster than the money supply, enabling people to purchase more with their money.
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What the Biden Health Coverup Reveals About the Political Class
The reaction to Biden’s cancer announcement reveals how little trust the public has in the people who spent years claiming that Biden’s mental decline was fabricated by right-wing propagandists. That lack of trust is well deserved.
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MILEI Y ADORNI ARRASAN EN BUENOS AIRES
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The Spanish Blackout and the Costs of Renewable Energy
The usual suspects from the American and European elites are claiming that Spain‘s recent blackout was the result of unusual weather conditions. In truth, Spain‘s dependence upon renewable energy was to blame.
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CAUSAS NOBLES, FINES OSCUROS
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Diploma Inflation and the Erosion of Academic Signaling
Economists have said that a higher education degree is a form of “signaling” by the person holding the diploma. Thanks to government attempts to make higher education readily available, the value of a college degree has been severely degraded.
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What the Biden Health Coverup Reveals About the Political Class
The reaction to Biden’s cancer announcement reveals how little trust the public has in the people who spent years claiming that Biden’s mental decline was fabricated by right-wing propagandists. That lack of trust is well deserved.
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Adam Smith Cannot the Win Tariff War Without Capital
The Wall Street Journal editors have made a monumental error in judgment. In a recent piece, they announced that the Trump administration has lost its trade war against Adam Smith, but there must be free trade in capital goods, not just consumer goods.
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The American Federal Government 21st Bankruptcy Show
Bankruptcy in the short term is painful. In the long term, it is cleansing decades of poor federal government choices.
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JAPÓN AL BORDE DEL COLAPSO: ¡SE HUNDE SU DEUDA!
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SNB’s Chairman Schlegel: A few months of negative inflation wouldn’t be a problem
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SNB Sight Deposits: decreased by 3.6 billion francs compared to the previous week
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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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