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Government Redistribution Is the REAL Trickle-Down Economics

Bureaucracy and RegulationCronyism and CorporatismProgressivism

06/01/2023Mises Media
President Biden recently claimed that "trickle-down economics" doesn't work but transferring wealth from taxpayers to politically connected people is the real trickle-down economics.
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Government Budget Deficits Cannot Stimulate True Economic Growth

Big GovernmentThe FedKeynesTaxes and Spending

05/10/2023Mises Media
A central tenet of Keynesian economics is that governments must run budget deficits to stimulate economic growth. But government spending actually shrinks the economy.
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Government Is as Government Does

Big GovernmentBureaucracy and RegulationCronyism and CorporatismDecentralization and SecessionSocialismTaxes and Spending

03/20/2023Mises Media
If we have learned anything from hundreds of years of government oppression and atrocities, one thing is certain: government isn't our friend.
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Governments Will Make You Poorer Again

Big GovernmentGlobal EconomyInflationMonetary Policy

02/03/2023Mises Media
Inflation at an annual rate of 5 percent is not a positive, and it is certainly not falling prices. Inflation is accumulative, and this means we are becoming poorer faster.
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Governments Cannot Effectively Regulate Vaccines

Big GovernmentBureaucracy and RegulationHealthLawStrategy

02/02/2023Mises Media
Because government officials do not worry about the consequences of making mistakes, the government should not be permitted to regulate anything as important as vaccines.
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GDP and 3M

Financial MarketsU.S. Economy

01/28/2023Mises Media
Mark Thornton takes a look at the recent GDP report and the layoff announcement at 3M.
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Globalization, Not Globalism: Free Trade versus Destructive Statist Ideology

Big GovernmentCronyism and CorporatismFree MarketsProtectionism and Free Trade

01/16/2023Mises Media
Relatively free trade and capital mobilization have greatly raised living standards in recent years. Yet those that call themselves globalists are less interested in trade than in unipolar political power, pushing violent, disastrous schemes.
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Grover Cleveland Presented the Best Example of a True Liberal Populist

Economic PolicyU.S. History

01/03/2023Mises Media
While some politicians preach populism, that usually means protectionism and increased business regulation, along with high marginal income tax rates. Grover Cleveland showed a better way.
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Gold as Natural Money

Central BanksWorld HistoryGold Standard

10/24/2022Mises Media
Gold historically has not been money by government fiat. Instead, gold has been the natural choice of people for money, something governments cannot undo (despite its best efforts).
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Genuine Recovery Is Up to Investors, Producers, and Consumer Choice

Booms and BustsFree Markets

10/04/2022Mises Media
Recovery is genuine only when it reaches the masses of individuals. And recovery comes only from the actions of individuals acting in a free market.
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