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The Escalating Tensions in the Red Sea Are a Bad Omen

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With the Houthis in Yemen firing on commercial ships in the Red Sea, the US is contemplating yet another Middle East conflict. As we see again, aggression leads to more aggression.

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The Wrong Way and the Right Way to Fix the Fed

01/02/2024The Austrian
The proper strategy is to design economic policies that are consistent with and do not undermine the individualist, private-property, free-market institutional framework. Any monetary system in which politics plays a decisive role will be operated according to the ideology of government officials...
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Mises and Popper on Action

Blog01/02/2024

While Ludwig von Mises and Karl Popper disagreed on methodology, but Brian J. Gladish believes that perhaps their viewpoints were not as divergent as their followers suggest.

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Good Logic Prevents Bad Regulation

Blog01/02/2024

Much government regulation — and especially what we saw during the covid era — is downright illogical and produces harmful results. Perhaps some simple logic is in order.

The Real Meaning of Inflation and Deflation

01/02/2024Mises Daily Articles

If one looks at the catastrophic consequences of the great paper-money inflations, one must admit that the cost of making and holding gold is the minor evil. It would be futile to retort that these catastrophes were brought about because the regime merely used fiat money improperly. 

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Reflections on the Rothbard Graduate Seminar

Blog01/01/2024

The Rothbard Graduate Seminar (RGS) provides an opportunity to learn about Austrian economics at a high level.

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Privatizing Roads Solves the Problem of Road Closures

Blog01/01/2024

All of us have experienced government road closures and the traffic and safety nightmares they create. Private roads may be the answer to solving the problem.

Secession

When Nationalism Fuels Decentralization and Secession: Lessons from the Cold War

Blog01/01/2024
If we say secession in the name of national liberation is bad, we end up supporting the Soviet Union, and every empire or two-bit dictator who manages to hammer together a variety of disparate groups under a single national banner.

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