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If Only D'Souza Were Right

Media and CultureOther Schools of Thought

09/03/2012Mises Daily Articles
Neither the Right nor the Left will want to admit that D'Souza's film is a long whitewash of the policies of George W. Bush.
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Is Interest Exploitation?

Capital and Interest TheoryHistory of the Austrian School of Economics

08/22/2012Mises Daily Articles
In all these statements the idea is unmistakably expressed that profits arise from the pressure the possessing classes exert on the nonpossessing classes.
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Industry Is an Effort Followed by a Result

The EntrepreneurFree MarketsEntrepreneurshipInterventionism

08/20/2012Mises Daily Articles
Perfectibility is the progressive diminution of effort compared with the result.
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Introduction to Economic Sophisms

Free MarketsGlobal EconomyInterventionism

07/30/2012Mises Daily Articles
My design in this little volume is to refute some of the arguments that are urged against the freedom of trade.
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In Praise of Government Gridlock

Free MarketsTaxes and SpendingInterventionism

07/27/2012Mises Daily Articles
As Mises wrote, "government efficiency and industrial efficiency are entirely different things."
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Is There a Right to Unionize?

Free Markets

07/23/2012Mises Daily Articles
It is wrong to equate the supposed "right to unionize" with freedom of association.
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Is There No Escape from the Euro?

Free MarketsGlobal EconomyInterventionismMoney and Banking

04/23/2012Mises Daily Articles
As important as it is to dissolve the euro, there are significant exit problems.
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Is Inflation about General Increases in Prices?

The FedBusiness CyclesGold StandardInterventionism

03/13/2012Mises Daily Articles
To ascertain what inflation is all about, we have to establish its definition.
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It's Not Really about the Debt

Financial MarketsFree MarketsBusiness CyclesInterventionism

03/01/2012Mises Daily Articles
The fall in the money stock that precedes price deflation is actually triggered by the previous loose monetary policies of the central bank.
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It's 1980 Again

Gold Standard

02/07/2012Mises Daily Articles
The question if 2012 is 1980 all over again tells us why returning to gold is imperative.
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