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Today's easy-money-fueled economic "boom" doesn't compare well to booms of the past.

Do Seasonal Adjustments Help Identify Business Cycles?

Without a coherent theory based on purposeful human action, it is not possible to begin to understand the causes of business cycles.

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How Welfare States Make Us Less Civilized

Labor and WagesPovertyValue and Exchange

Blog08/17/2017Per Bylund

The market’s informal, spontaneous cooperation for mutual benefit has been replaced by a statist mindset.

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Privatize the Public Monuments

Media and CultureU.S. History

Blog08/17/2017Ryan McMaken

Public monuments serve the same public propaganda function as public schools. The solution in both cases is the same.

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The Attack on Marijuana During the 1930s

HealthU.S. HistoryInterventionism

08/16/2017Audio/VideoChris Calton

How did Americans fall for the government's reefer madness? Listen as Chris Calton explains.

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Decentralize the Gun Laws

Decentralization and SecessionLegal SystemU.S. History

Blog08/16/2017Ryan McMaken

Having the feds impose nationwide reciprocity of gun licensing might sound like a good idea. But it really is just a scheme to federalize gun policy.

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How Central Banking Increased Inequality

08/15/2017FedWatchLouis Rouanet

Focusing almost exclusively on consumer price inflation, economists have overlooked the redistributive effects of money creation through other channels.

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Before "Fake News," America Invented "Pseudo Events"

Media and CultureU.S. History

Blog08/15/2017Ryan McMaken

For decades, the American media has been skillfully perfecting the art of creating its own "pseudo events" when real news has been hard to find.

Mises Weekends

Tom Woods on how Murray Rothbard shaped his intellectual development.

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A Tale of Two “Deflationary” Booms – The Gilded Age vs. Today

Do Seasonal Adjustments Help Identify Business Cycles?

How Welfare States Make Us Less Civilized

Privatize the Public Monuments

The Attack on Marijuana During the 1930s

Decentralize the Gun Laws

How Central Banking Increased Inequality

Before "Fake News," America Invented "Pseudo Events"

Mises Weekends

World War I and the Triumph of Illiberal Ideology

Decentralize the Gun Laws

Why Cryptocurrencies Will Never Be Safe Havens

The Attack on Marijuana During the 1930s

How Central Banking Increased Inequality

The Wrong Narrative in Charlottesville

The Roots of Drug Prohibition in America

An Intro to Media Relations and Non-Academic Writing

The Market for Security

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