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Does GDP Present an Accurate Picture of the Economy? Not Likely

Booms and BustsEconomic PolicyThe Fed

05/17/2023Mises Media
The most popular measure of economic growth is GDP. However, GDP movement is driven by changes in the money supply, not real economic factors.
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Paying the Piper: Time to Clean Up the Latest Malinvestments

Booms and BustsThe FedInflationMonetary PolicyBusiness Cycles

05/17/2023Mises Media
Austrian business cycle theory points out that easy money leads to malinvestments. Once easy money disappears, the crash begins. Time to clean up malinvested assets.
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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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Charles Schwab and Other Big Banks May Be Secretly Insolvent

The FedMoney and BanksU.S. Economy

05/15/2023Mises Media
While the Fed and the Biden administration try to assure Americans that their banks are safe and secure, the numbers tell a different story.
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Due Process or Transgender Protection on Campus?

Bureaucracy and RegulationLawProgressivismThe Police State

05/15/2023Mises Media
President Biden's executive order to promote transgenderism on college campuses eviscerates long-held due process protections for accused students. This will not end well.
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Neither Red nor Blue, but Free

Big GovernmentDecentralization and SecessionMedia and Culture

05/13/2023Mises Media
The real issue we face is not whether we should be in the red tribe or the blue tribe, but rather what will be the constituency for freedom.
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Rothbard Was Right: Wars Don't Enhance Freedom. They Destroy Liberty.

Media and CultureWar and Foreign Policy

05/13/2023Mises Media
We hear ad nauseum from political and media elites that the war in Ukraine is about preserving "our freedoms." Murray Rothbard had something to say about this sophistry.
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The Brutality of Slavery

Legal SystemU.S. HistoryInterventionism

05/13/2023Mises Daily Articles
In a slave system, threats of brutality underlay the whole relationship.
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ESG: Another Fraudulent Hustle That Progressive Elites Have Foisted on the Economy

Cronyism and CorporatismEconomic PolicyPolitics

05/12/2023Mises Media
In their attempts to remake the economy, progressive elites are pushing ESG. What they forget is that the economy runs on real things, not ideology.
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