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Critics Claim Bitcoin Is a Threat to the Environment. They're Wrong.

Opponents of bitcoin now claim that bitcoin mining causes global warming and is an environmental threat. But the boom-bust cycles caused by central banks and their fiat money are far worse than any carbon footprint bitcoin can produce.

The Inverted Yield Curve and Recession

Blog8 hours agoRobert P. Murphy

Economists have failed to explain the mechanism by which an inverted yield curve signals an impending recession. But the Misesian explanation of the business cycle quite easily explains the pattern we observe in interest rates.

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What Exactly Is Neoliberalism, and Is It a Bad Thing?

Blog04/10/2021Bernardo Ferrero

In his book-length essay on neoliberalism, Alberto Mingardi provides some much needed clarification and explanation of this concept that has long been one of the Left's favored bogeymen.

Biden's Colossal Budget Confirms Trump-Era Mega Spending Will Continue

Blog04/10/2021Ryan McMaken

The Dems are still claiming that welfare spending withered away during the Trump years. But that's obvious nonsense, and Trump's megaspending slathered trillions of dollars on pretty much everything.

7 Observations on the Humane Nature of Capitalism

Blog04/10/2021Gary Galles

Capitalism isn't just better because it makes us materially better off. Capitalism also helps us forge a more humane and civil society.

Robots Won't Destroy Us: How Automation Creates Jobs

Blog04/10/2021Marcel Gautreau

The goods created by automation—and the labor freed up by it—become inputs for industries downstream.

The 200th Anniversary of a Great American Demolition of Tyranny

Blog04/09/2021James Bovard

John Taylor's Tyranny Unmasked is one of the best American books on trade by one of the most thoughtful and least appreciated political analysts of the founding era.

Marx, Abstract Labor, and Absurdity

04/09/2021Friday PhilosophyDavid Gordon

Without the labor theory of value's assumption of a natural price that explains what is “really” going on beneath the veil of supply and demand, there is no mystification involved in capitalist production.

Government Property Is Sacred. Your Property? Not So Much.

Blog04/09/2021José Niño

The government tantrum over the Capitol riot has shown that the regime sees its own property as sacrosanct. Your private property, on the other hand, is completely expendable and of no importance whatsoever.

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Peter Klein: When Policy-Makers Discover The Benefits of Entrepreneurship, They Can’t Resist Intervening

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Is Price Gouging a Problem?

04/10/2021Lakshya Bharadwaj

From Christianity to Black Power, Rothbard Offers a Unique View

04/08/2021Lipton Matthews

What Clarence Thomas Gets Wrong about Big Tech

04/08/2021Jeff Deist

Rewinding the Mainspring of Human Progress

04/07/2021Gary Galles

Is the Fed Propping Up the US Government?

04/07/2021Robert Aro

The Marxist Origins of James Burnham's Foreign Policy

04/05/2021David Gordon

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