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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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Understanding the Difference between Praxeology and Psychology

Philosophy and MethodologyPraxeology

04/06/2023Mises Media
Some economists have tried to apply psychology to economic analysis, but psychology is not what drives economic activity.
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US Labor Market: Help Wanted!

Booms and BustsInflationUnemployment

01/12/2023Mises Media
While behavioral economics claims to be an effective way of measuring individual economic behavior, it actually sets back authentic economic analysis.
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United Kingdom Mortality Data by Age Group and Vaccination Status: Looking at Vaccine Effectiveness

Big GovernmentBureaucracy and RegulationCronyism and CorporatismLawProgressivism

12/19/2022Mises Media
Should there be vaccine mandates to deal with covid? Progressive authorities say one thing, but the data say another.
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US Household Saving Rate Vanishes, Credit Card Debt Soars

Economic PolicyThe FedFinancial MarketsU.S. Economy

07/02/2022Mises Media
The United States economy may have delivered no growth in the first half of 2022 after the decline in the first quarter, narrowly avoiding a technical recession.
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Una teoría austriaca de la economía ambiental

The EnvironmentPraxeology

06/18/2022Mises Daily Articles
La economía ambiental está impregnada de las teorías neoclásicas estándar de la eficiencia y la economía del bienestar pigouviana. Eso es un problema.
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Uvalde's Biggest Mistake Was Trusting the Police to "Keep Us Safe"

Big GovernmentThe FedLawThe Police State

06/09/2022Mises Media
Knee-jerk support for the police helps gun control advocates by undermining the most fundamental reason for gun ownership: the government's armed enforcers won't keep us safe and are likely to abuse their power.
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Utilitarian Free-Market Economics

Free MarketsHistory of the Austrian School of EconomicsPraxeology

05/24/2022Mises Daily Articles
Utilitarianism assumes that morality—the good—is purely subjective to each individual. It also assumes that these subjective desires can be added, subtracted, and weighed across the various individuals in society.
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Understanding Russia's War: The Strange Philosophy of Aleksandr Dugin

War and Foreign Policy

05/23/2022Mises Media
Trying to interpret the actions of Vladimir Putin or politics in Russia using Western narratives is likely to end in failure.
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Uncertainty

Austrian Economics OverviewHistory of the Austrian School of EconomicsPraxeology

05/20/2022Mises Daily Articles
That man acts and that the future is uncertain are by no means two independent matters. They are only two different modes of establishing one thing.
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