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How the Dollar Became the World's Top Global Currency

Money and BanksWar and Foreign PolicyWorld History

05/18/2023Mises Media
The dollar became the dominant global currency not so much because of its own merits, but because of the self-destruction of the pound sterling caused by the British state and central bank.
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How Greening the Economy Will Destroy America

Big GovernmentThe EnvironmentMedia and CulturePolitics

05/18/2023Mises Media
We’re supposed to go along with Green Energy schemes—as we did with masks, school lockdowns, and vaccinations to stop covid—because our government, media, and “public interest” groups insist that we “follow the science.”
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How to Teach Austrian Economics to the Neighbor Kids

Economic FreedomThe EntrepreneurLabor and WagesEntrepreneurship

05/16/2023Mises Media
Austrian economics is not dry theory. It helps us make sense of our world and shows that exchange and production have a place in our moral universe.
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Historical Effects of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

U.S. HistoryWorld History

05/16/2023Mises Media
While the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade have been well documented, people other than slave traders and slaveholders benefitted from it, with some surprising results.
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How the Woke Left Is Destroying Education

Bureaucracy and RegulationEducationProgressivismWorld History

05/01/2023Mises Media
Adherents of leftist dogma increasingly push the notion that teachers should be permitted to distract, confuse, or influence their students by discussing their personal beliefs, ideas, and private activities and choices in the classroom.
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Here's What Mounting Corporate Layoffs Tell Us about the Economy

Big GovernmentBooms and BustsEconomic PolicyFinancial MarketsU.S. Economy

04/27/2023Mises Media
Ryan McMaken and Dr. Mark Thornton cover the state of the dollar and why employers are laying off their highest paid workers.
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How Australia and New Zealand Helped Provoke and Escalate the First World War

PoliticsWar and Foreign PolicyWorld History

04/26/2023Mises Media
Most Western historians claim that World War I came about because of aggression from Germany and Austria-Hungary. However, Great Britain and its ANZAC allies were not innocent bystanders.
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How Government Schools Use Bad History to Promote the State

Big GovernmentBooms and BustsEconomic PolicyU.S. Economy

04/20/2023Mises Media
Ryan and Tho look at common American history myths baked into government school curricula.
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How Politicians Use Regulations to Deflect Blame

Bureaucracy and RegulationPrice ControlsProgressivism

03/31/2023Mises Media
Thanks to their adoring media, politicians create crises and then blame businesses for them. And the political "solutions" are worse than the original problems.
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