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The Ukraine War Isn't about Democracy. It's about States Seeking More Power.

AntipoliticsBig GovernmentDemocracyWar and Foreign Policy

05/11/2023Mises Media
The fight between Russia and NATO is not about "democracy versus authoritarianism." Rather both the US and Russian states are doubling down because they are doing what states do: seeking power.
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Government Budget Deficits Cannot Stimulate True Economic Growth

Big GovernmentThe FedKeynesTaxes and Spending

05/10/2023Mises Media
A central tenet of Keynesian economics is that governments must run budget deficits to stimulate economic growth. But government spending actually shrinks the economy.
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Canada’s Legal Counterfeiting Ring Is a Product of Progressive Democracy

Central BanksDemocracyInflationMoney and BanksProgressivism

05/10/2023Mises Media
Canada created its central bank during the Great Depression, ostensibly to stabilize the currency and protect the banking system. Today, that system is falling apart, thanks to inflationary central bank policies.
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Are Libertarians Abandoning Free Trade?

LibertarianismPhilosophyPoliticsProtectionism and Free Trade

05/09/2023Mises Media
A bedrock of Austrian economics and libertarianism has been free trade. Unfortunately, some people who claim to value liberty no longer value unhampered exchange.
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The Ruling Classes Are Inflation Deniers and the Ship of Fools Sails On

The FedInflationProgressivismU.S. Economy

05/09/2023Mises Media
Even after two years of "transitory" inflation, America's ruling classes insist that prices are falling and that all of this is temporary. We don't believe them.
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The Income Tax: Lessons from the Sixteenth Amendment

LawTaxes and Spending

05/08/2023Mises Media
The passage of an income tax in the early twentieth century was an enormous shift toward a far more centralized and powerful US state.
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Prevent Future Losses Like East Palestine by Reducing Regulation and Empowering Torts

Bureaucracy and RegulationFree Markets

05/08/2023Mises Media
To prevent rail accidents like the one in East Palestine, dial back government regulation and allow the tort system to work.
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Disinformation and the State: The Aptly Named RESTRICT Act

Bureaucracy and RegulationDemocracyProgressivismThe Police State

05/07/2023Mises Media
Federal laws with acronyms are usually bad news. (Think the USA PATRIOT Act.) The RESTRICT Act is yet another Orwellian proposal in which the federal government assumes ignorance is strength.
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Lincoln's Main Target Was "Anarchy" and Secession, Not Slavery

PhilosophySecessionU.S. History

05/06/2023Mises Media
Once the Southern states accepted the Thirteenth Amendment, Lincoln was entirely content for the old Southern elites to resume their positions of power and for many blacks to continue in a condition little better than bondage.
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A Pyrrhic End to 130 Years of Vicious Bad Money and Banking Crises

Booms and BustsThe FedMoney and BanksU.S. EconomyU.S. History

05/06/2023Mises Media
The current banking crises have deep roots in US financial history. Monetary authorities have engaged in inflationary behavior for more than a hundred years.
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