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The Inevitable Bust: Why Economic Booms Contain the Seeds of Their Own Destruction

Booms and BustsEconomic PolicyMonetary PolicyBusiness Cycles

12/01/2023Mises Media
While the Fed tries to engineer the mythical “soft landing” for the economy, Austrian economists know that this is an exercise in futility. Once the credit-fueled boom occurs, the bust logically follows.
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Ten Years Ago, I Discovered the Mises Institute. These Are the Things I Wish I Had Done Differently

EducationMedia and CulturePhilosophy

11/30/2023Mises Media
Ten years ago, I discovered the Mises Institute. This is the advice I wish I could send back to my younger self.
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Do You Have a Right to Sell Your Land to the Chinese?

LibertarianismProperty RightsWar and Foreign Policy

11/30/2023Mises Media
Ryan and Benjamin Seevers examine the reasoning behind efforts to destroy Americans' right to sell land to foreign nationals, especially the Chinese.
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From the Invisible Hand to the Invisible Sleight-of-Hand

KeynesMedia and CultureMonetary PolicyU.S. Economy

11/30/2023Mises Media
Advocates of unbacked paper money claim that theirs is the “civilized” choice, as opposed to gold, or what Keynes called “that barbarous relic.” These inflationists, however, are the ones wrecking civilization as we have known it.
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Time Preference Is the Key Driver of Interest Rates

PhilosophyCapital and Interest TheoryOther Schools of ThoughtPhilosophy and Methodology

11/29/2023Mises Media
Forget the other mainstream explanations for interest. Time preference explains this phenomenon and gives a true picture of why interest exists in the first place.
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Statist Ideology and War: Israel versus Hamas

Big GovernmentThe Police StateWar and Foreign Policy

11/29/2023Mises Media
As this author previously has noted, the ideology of statism is responsible for much of the violence that plagues the world. We see this played out in Israel's aggressive retaliatory attacks in Gaza in response to the October 7 killings by Hamas.
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There's No Easy Way Out of This Debt Spiral

Money and BanksTaxes and Spending

11/28/2023Mises Media
The new problem we now face arises from the fact that huge deficits are only manageable so long as interest rates remain very, very low.
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October's Sobering Jobs Report Adds to Mounting Bad Economic News

Money and BanksU.S. Economy

11/28/2023Mises Media
Data on employed persons, wages, and other measures point to trouble ahead in an economy already strained by growing bankruptcies, mounting debts, and disappearing savings.
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The "Climate Emergency": Fueled by Twenty-First-Century Marxism

Big GovernmentThe EnvironmentMedia and CultureWorld History

11/27/2023Mises Media
The eternal “climate emergency” is upon us. While doomsday is said to be around the corner, the reality is that the only thing rising is the level of government control.
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The Federal Reserve Is Running Losses. Does This Cost Anyone Anything?

The FedMonetary PolicyMoney and BanksU.S. Economy

11/27/2023Mises Media
The new problem we now face arises from the fact that huge deficits are only manageable so long as interest rates remain very, very low.
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