The Austrian

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Keep US Out of War

War and Foreign Policy

04/07/2022The Austrian
Neutrality limits conflicts instead of escalating them. Neutral states cannot swell their power through war and militarism, or murder and plunder the citizens of other states.
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Why So Much Hate for the Free Market?

Book ReviewsSocialism

04/07/2022The Austrian
Given the manifest superiority of the free market, why do so many intellectuals reject it?
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Knowledge in the Service of a Political Agenda is Biased

Book ReviewsSocialismWorld History

02/15/2022The Austrian
Graeber and Wengrow are right to question stage theories of history, but they pass by in silence the laws of economics that show the necessity of the free market for a complex modern society.
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Sound Economics in a Confused World

The FedInterviewsMonetary PolicyStrategy

02/15/2022The Austrian
If you’re in trouble, you stop spending on frivolous stuff and you save. It applies on a personal level; it applies on a national level. But the fiat world just flips all of this on its head.
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The Befuddling World of the Antieconomist

Book ReviewsSocialism

12/02/2021The Austrian
One of the darlings of the left's intellectual brotherhood gives us a look into the state of intellectual affairs therein. Piketty expounds "there is no universal law of economics: There is only a multiplicity of historical experiences and imperfect data.” Piketty is what Mises calls an "...
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All the Trouble in the World: The Ron Paul Doctrine

InterviewsLibertarianismSocialism

12/01/2021The Austrian
McAdams discusses what a Ron Paul doctrine for economics and foreign policy would look like. It would be laissez-faire at home, self-determination for political minorities up to and including secession, free trade, and a strictly noninterventionist military approach.
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The Sovietization of America

SocialismStrategy

11/03/2021The Austrian
Maltsev says, a goal of the Marxists is the secularization of America, which is a necessary step toward establishing a communist state—the perfected state of mankind.
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The Battle over the Free Market

Free MarketsSocialism

11/02/2021The Austrian
Wapshott has made a career of writing about the clash between economists who favor the free market and those who support a "mixed economy." But he shows his heart by saying that in emergencies, government must supplant the market.
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The Illusion of American Exceptionalism

U.S. History

09/09/2021The Austrian
Bacevich criticizes the outsized role of American intervention overseas, but he goes a step further and questions the old conventional narratives too, going all the way back to World War I.
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The Absolute State of Money in 2021

Business CyclesMonetary TheoryMoney and Banking

09/08/2021The Austrian
In this interview with Jeff Deist, Dr. Murphy gives us a succinct lesson in the history of money, business cycle theory, and on the origins of monetary inflation.
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