Why is the Trump administration levying tariffs? Are they for tax purposes? Protecting domestic industries? Bargaining chips for international deal making? The administration and its supporters have floated mutually-exclusive reasons for these policies, making the confusion worse.
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Category Archive: 6b) Austrian Economics
Trump, DOGE, and the Machiavellians
Despite Trump‘s campaign promises and despite DOGE‘s so-called reputation of cutting government waste, the new administration is spending money faster than the supposed spendthrift Biden administration. This is Machiavellianism at its best.
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Trump (Again) Demands More Easy Money To Help Fund Even Bigger Deficits
Trump says he wants the US central bank to be more like the European Central Bank which has been more aggressively forcing down interest rates in recent months.
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Ending Subsidies to Amtrak Will Benefit Rail Travelers
Amtrak subsidies keep many of Amtrak‘s routes alive despite the fact that ridership is down on many of them. These subsidies guarantee that Amtrak will be a second-rate, undercapitalized passenger railroad system.
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CORRUPCIÓN TOTAL: SÁNCHEZ MANIPULA MEDIOS, JUECES Y ELECCIONES
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EL PIB PRIVADO SUPERA AL DE BIDEN
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Trump, DOGE, and the Machiavellians
Despite Trump‘s campaign promises and despite DOGE‘s so-called reputation of cutting government waste, the new administration is spending money faster than the supposed spendthrift Biden administration. This is Machiavellianism at its best.
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How Trump Chose the State of Israel and Ditched America First
Trump is now weighing sending in the US military. This presidency looks like an extension of George W. Bush's.
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Trump says he decides what is “America First” and he goes to war for a foreign country
Tucker Carlson opposes Trump's new war, so Trump claims to have invented "America First" and repeats banal slogans about weapons of mass destruction.
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Great Big Ugly Surveillance State
The abandonment of liberty because fear drives people to trust government promises of safety is a phenomenon we have witnessed several times this century.
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The Young Rothbard: An Uncomfortable Neoclassical Economist
Before he revolutionized economics, Rothbard mastered the mainstream. Salerno traces Rothbard's path from neoclassical insider to Austrian iconoclast.
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DeRensis: Zionism Is Not an American Principle
Hunter DeRensis writes at The American Conservative, "Israel is a rogue nuclear state that is aggressive abroad and despotic at home."
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The Certifiers Rule, So Be Prepared
In a true free market economy, credentials would not matter, and certainly not to the extent that they matter today. Credentialism, unfortunately, is a product of government interventionism.
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GUERRA TOTAL EN ORIENTE MEDIO: ISRAEL CONTRA IRÁN
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Does the “Economy” Actually Exist?
We speak of the “economy” as though it produces goods. Yet, the term really is a fiction, as purposeful individuals working in cooperation with each other are the real producers.
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Is Japan entering a recession?
Japan's economy contracted at a higher pace than expected in the first quarter of 2025, according to official data for the January to March period released on Friday.
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Napolitano: Trump’s deploying Nat Guard and Marines is an assault on federalism.
The deployment of California National Guard troops and active-duty U.S. Marines onto the streets of Los Angeles without local approval is an assault on federalism.
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Hegseth won’t rule out military actions against Greenland, Panama
Because keeping the US involved in only 2 hot wars isn't enough to please the war party.
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What’s a Fair Wage?
Arbitrary and undefined terms like “fair wage” and “living wage” fundamentally misunderstand the nature of work how wages are determined.
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US Intelligence Says Iran Is ‘Not Building a Nuclear Weapon’
" The IC continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and Supreme Leader Khamenei has not authorized the nuclear weapons program."
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SNB Sight Deposits: decreased by 5.7 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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