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Make No Mistake, War Hawk American Policy Helped Start This War in Ukraine

ProgressivismU.S. HistoryWar and Foreign Policy

02/15/2023Mises Media
When the Soviet Union collapsed more than thirty years ago, US and European political elites sought to isolate and threaten Russia. The result has been war, destruction, and death, none of it necessary.
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The Constitution Failed. It Secured Neither Peace nor Freedom.

LawU.S. HistoryWar and Foreign Policy

02/15/2023Mises Media
The Constitution has not protected our natural rights, nor did it prevent the US from becoming a blood-soaked failed state a mere 73 years after the constitution was ratified.
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Managing Money Is as Important as Making It: The Sad Case of Athletes Going Broke

StrategyTaxes and SpendingEntrepreneurship

02/14/2023Mises Media
The recent case of retired megastar Usain Bolt losing millions of dollars to bad investments highlights the importance of sound money management.
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"Stakeholder Capitalism" Is an Incoherent Term

Bureaucracy and RegulationCapitalismProgressivismU.S. Economy

02/14/2023Mises Media
One of the modern progressive buzzwords is "stakeholder capitalism," in which people with no direct connection to a firm somehow have a "stake" in what the firm does. It is an incoherent term.
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El poder de destruir

Taxes and SpendingFiscal TheoryMonetary Theory

02/13/2023Mises Daily Articles
El manifiesto comunista impulsó un impuesto sobre la renta fuertemente progresivo como una de las diez formas clave de socavar el orden de mercado. Por desgracia, la idea no murió con Marx.
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Is the Japanese Low Inflation–Low Interest Rate Model at an End?

CapitalismCentral BanksEconomic PolicyMoney and Banks

02/13/2023Mises Media
For nearly three decades, the Japanese economy has slowly imploded under low interest rates and heavy government debt. It may soon be time to pay the piper.
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The Power to Destroy

Taxes and SpendingFiscal TheoryMonetary Theory

02/13/2023Mises Daily Articles
The Communist Manifesto pushed a heavily progressive income tax as one of ten key ways to undermine the market order. Unfortunately, the idea didn't die with Marx.
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Social Security Taxes Aren't "Your" Money

Bureaucracy and RegulationLawLegal SystemU.S. Economy

02/13/2023Mises Media
The government can't return the SS money it stole in the past. It's impossible. That money's gone. Taxing today's workers to "pay back" pensioners is just creating a new group of tax victims.
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The Chinese Communist Party Is Creating a Crackdown Economy

Bureaucracy and RegulationCapitalismLawLegal System

02/12/2023Mises Media
China has created a crackdown cycle that is hurting the entrepreneurial spirit.
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You Think the Global Economy Is Brightening? Beware: The Big Hit Is Yet to Come

Booms and BustsThe FedInflationMonetary PolicyU.S. Economy

02/11/2023Mises Media
While President Joe Biden's White House continues to give happy talk about the economy, some major economic storm clouds are brewing. The future does not look good.
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