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Crash Landing

08/19/2023Mises Media
Will we get a soft landing or a hard landing in the economy? Or, should we hope for a crash landing? Mark Thornton explains.
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Dollar Hegemony Is Ending Due to Geopolitical Changes

Blog08/19/2023

Since the end of World War II, the US dollar has been the world's reserve currency. That status may well change because US monetary authorities insist on inflating the dollar into oblivion.

No, Small Countries Are Not at an Economic Disadvantage

Blog08/19/2023

Being large doesn't make a country wealthy, nor does being small shrink a country's economy.

The State Protects Itself While Crime against Ordinary People Surges

Blog08/18/2023

The regime has increasingly been consumed with paranoia over threats to itself—propagandistically termed "threats to democracy"—while attention given to real crime against private citizens is clearly not a priority at all. 

Beyond Crisis: The Ratchet Effect and the Erosion of Liberty

Blog08/18/2023

After governments create crises, they use those crises to seize new powers. After the crisis subsides, governments give up some, but not all, of their new authority, which we call the ratchet effect.

Saving Marxism from the Labor Theory of Value: It Is Still Bad Theory

Blog08/18/2023

While Graham Priest seems to have "rescued" Marxism from the labor theory of value, he cannot rescue Marxism itself.

Is the Fed Responsible for the Recent Surge and Fall in Price Inflation?

08/18/2023Mises Media

Progressive economists claim that the Federal Reserve's rate hikes couldn't possibly be responsible for the quelling of consumer price inflation. Jonathan Newman joins Bob to discuss.

What Mises Really Thought about Fascism

Blog08/18/2023

When Mises wrote that the fascists had "saved European civilization," he could have been describing Francisco Franco of Spain, who kept Spain from becoming a communist dictatorship.

Monetary Inflation Won't Create Economic Growth

Blog08/17/2023

David Hume, Adam Smith, and Étienne de Condillac observed that money is neither a consumers' good nor a producers' good and that, therefore, its quantity is irrelevant for the wealth of a nation.

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