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Consumer Credit Is Expanding Even While the Fed Pushes up Interest Rates

InflationMonetary PolicyTaxes and SpendingU.S. Economy

9 hours agoMises Media
As the economy slowly deteriorates, consumer debt rises. In the meantime, the Fed is pushing up interest rates to deal with the inflation it caused. This does not end well.
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Let's Examine Some REAL Crimes Committed by Presidents

LawLegal SystemPolitics

10/03/2023Mises Media
The ruling classes have determined that crimes are political in nature. Thus, Donald Trump faces criminal charges while actual crimes by other presidents go uncharged and unpunished.
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Power Vacuum: How the State Wants to Suck Electricity from the SUV You Are Required to Buy

Bureaucracy and RegulationEconomic PolicyProgressivism

10/02/2023Mises Media
Because California’s government has hamstrung electricity producers in the state, its legislature now wants EVs to be “bidirectional,” that is, to put power from their batteries back into the grid.
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Mises versus Hayek on the Future of Civilization

HayekPhilosophyCalculation and KnowledgePhilosophy and MethodologyPolitical TheoryPraxeology

10/02/2023Mises Media
While F.A. Hayek is known for his term “spontaneous order,” Mises saw institutional development as coming from growth in human understanding of things.
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States Are Dying from Corruption and the Exponential

CapitalismPoliticsThe Police StateWorld History

10/01/2023Mises Media
The state is held together by violence and nothing else. There is no such thing as "the social contract." But even violence cannot make a state last past its time, as we saw with the USSR.
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How Is the Fed Insolvent and Why Should We Care?

Economic PolicyThe FedInflationMonetary Theory

09/30/2023Mises Media
Alex Pollock explains to Bob the mechanics of the Fed's current insolvency and its implications for ordinary Americans.
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Statism Stands against Free Trade and Free Association

Cronyism and CorporatismProtectionism and Free TradePhilosophy and Methodology

09/30/2023Mises Media
Free trade has its enemies on the left and the right. However, despite the supposed “sophistication” of their antitrade arguments, when we break them down, those arguments really are sophistry.
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Physician Burnout: Another Consequence of Medical Socialism

Bureaucracy and RegulationEconomic PolicyLegal SystemSocialism

09/30/2023Mises Media
Obamacare's forced electronic medical recordkeeping is denying patients the care they need.
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The Data Shutdown—Smokescreen?

The FedU.S. Economy

09/30/2023Mises Media
The Federal Reserve is playing its typical confidence game.
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Totalitarian Ideals and Not Living by Lies

LanguagePhilosophyProgressivismThe Police StateWorld History

09/29/2023Mises Media
More than forty years ago, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn urged his fellow Russians “not to live by lies.” In our politicized age, his words ring truer than ever.
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