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The "Buy Black" Movement: Divisive or a Boon to Black Entrepreneurs?

The EntrepreneurFree MarketsEntrepreneurship

06/01/2023Mises Media
Calls for black consumers to "Buy Black" can be interpreted as socially divisive, but they are also a way to encourage black entrepreneurs in a free market.
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Understanding Relationships between Money Supply and Liquidity

Money and BanksMonetary TheoryMoney Supply

05/31/2023Mises Media
Can the injection of new money into the economic system enhance economic growth? Not really. Increasing (or decreasing) the money supply affects the demand for money but doesn't make us wealthier.
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The Putrid Underbelly of Woke Capitalism

Cronyism and CorporatismMedia and CultureProgressivism

05/31/2023Mises Media
American corporations are lavishing billions of dollars on leftist groups in the name of "equity." But many of them also are donating to even more questionable people and causes.
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The Failure of Public Works and Public Funding

Bureaucracy and RegulationEconomic FreedomHayekCalculation and Knowledge

05/30/2023Mises Media
Shoddy service, regular breakdowns, and overbudget to boot. There is a reason why government-funded projects always waste resources.
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Biden’s New Intersectionality: Where Equity Policies Meet Bad Economics

Economic PolicyProgressivismProtectionism and Free TradeU.S. EconomyInterventionism

05/30/2023Mises Media
The Biden administration has decided that the REAL problem with housing is that the wrong people are saving money and making timely mortgage payments. They must be punished.
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In the Event of an Official US Bankruptcy

Money and BanksTaxes and SpendingU.S. History

05/29/2023Mises Media
Economically speaking, the US government is bankrupt even if the government won’t admit what is obvious. But how would an actual bankruptcy proceeding go?
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Taxing Capital Leads to Capital Consumption

Economic PolicyCapital and Interest Theory

05/29/2023Mises Media
Progressive governments in the name of equity are calling for taxation of capital gains. They really are demanding destruction of capital through capital consumption.
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The Money Supply Has Plummeted in the Biggest Drop Since the Great Depression

The FedInflationU.S. Economy

05/28/2023Mises Media
With negative growth now falling to near –10 percent, money-supply contraction is now the largest we've seen since the Great Depression.
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Finance Discovers Sting: "How Fragile We Are"

Financial MarketsMoney and BanksU.S. EconomyInterventionism

05/27/2023Mises Media
Despite the soothing hot air from the White House and Fed officials, the financial system is becoming increasingly fragile and unstable. Maybe all of that intervention the past decade was not wise.
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The Lure of a Stable Price Level

U.S. HistoryBusiness CyclesPrices

05/27/2023Mises Daily Articles
The siren song of a stable price level has lured leading politicians and economists as early as 1911.
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