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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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More Recession Signs: Money Supply Growth Went Negative Again in December

Central BanksThe FedMoney and BanksU.S. Economy

02/11/2023Mises Media
The fact the money supply is actually shrinking serves as just one more indicator that the so-called soft landing promised by the Federal Reserve is unlikely to be a reality.
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Ten Ethical Objections to the Market Economy

Free MarketsMedia and CultureHistory of the Austrian School of EconomicsPhilosophy and MethodologyPraxeology

02/11/2023Mises Daily Articles
Murray N. Rothbard slices his way through ten of the most common value-based calumnies against the market economy. An excerpt from Man, Economy, and State, with Power and Market .
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Empty Malls and Shopping Centers: How Government Fuels Malinvestments

Booms and BustsCorporate WelfareCronyism and CorporatismU.S. Economy

02/10/2023Mises Media
The empty shopping mall: a story of how government actions created a huge malinvestment in western Pennsylvania.
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How Should a Nation Determine Its Heroes?

Media and CulturePoliticsWorld History

02/10/2023Mises Media
How do societies determine who their heroes are? We know that often those seen as heroes actually made a country worse off.
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Concentrate Where the Murders Are Concentrated

Media and CultureProgressivism

02/09/2023Mises Media
Progressives like to claim that "America" has a "gun violence problem." However, the "gun violence problem" happens to exist in places where progressives dominate the government.
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Do Correlations Help Define Money?

The FedMoney and BanksGold StandardMonetary Theory

02/09/2023Mises Media
Monetary authorities have come up with numerous clever ways of measuring money. However, they are unable even to define money, much less measure it.
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