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Free Trade and the American Political Tradition

Free MarketsGlobal EconomyU.S. EconomyU.S. HistoryWar and Foreign PolicyWorld HistoryValue and Exchange

01/03/2018Mises Daily Articles
We can be both trade globalists and political localists.
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Foreign Capital Investment: The Antidote to Global Inequality

History of the Austrian School of Economics

10/03/2017Mises Daily Articles
Foreign investment and free trade are the keys to rapidly increasing a government's wealth. Unfortunately, most governments demonize both of these.
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Liberty

Five Laws to Repeal on Independence Day

Big GovernmentU.S. HistoryInterventionism

07/04/2015Mises Daily Articles
Since the revolution, many acts of Congress under the Constitution have done much to undo the Spirit of 1776. Here are a few of the worst.
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Frédéric Bastiat

Frédéric Bastiat’s Economic Sophisms Is Now More Important Than Ever

History of the Austrian School of EconomicsPhilosophy and MethodologyPolitical Theory

06/29/2015Mises Daily Articles
Frédéric Bastiat would have turned 214 today. Although primarily remembered for The Law , Bastiat's book Economic Sophisms , filled with Bastiat's unique wit, and his ability to destroy bad economic theories, is as timely as ever.
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Financial Warfare and the Declining Dollar

Money and BanksWar and Foreign PolicyMoney and Banking

05/07/2015Mises Daily Articles
With huge debts and an immensely inflated supply of dollars, the US is vulnerable to its own "Suez moment" in which foreign regimes can nullify American foreign policy without firing a shot.
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Daily article March 4 2015

Five Steps to Fixing Greece’s Debt Problem

Global EconomyMoney and BanksMoney and Banking

03/04/2015Mises Daily Articles
The Europeans have decided to limit funding and credit extended to the Greeks. This puts the Greek financial system under pressure, but there are free-market solutions that could set the Greeks on the path to a sound economy.
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Fracking

Fracking — A New Bubble for a New Year

Booms and BustsFinancial MarketsGlobal Economy

01/22/2015Mises Daily Articles
Thanks to high oil prices and years of cheap money, capital-intensive fracking operations became feasible in even some of the most marginal areas. But with easy money comes bubbles, and falling oil prices may soon help pop the fracking bubble.
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Four Reasons the Bernanke-Yellen Asset-Price Inflation May Be Nearing Its End

The FedFinancial MarketsBusiness CyclesMoney and Banking

10/17/2014Mises Daily Articles
Once interest rates begin to rise — and rise they must, whether as a result of Fed policy or not — the end of the asset price inflation will be at hand. The result will be another financial crisis and accompanying recession.
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Daily Sept 25 bubble

Federal Reserve Policies Cause Booms and Busts

Booms and BustsThe FedMoney and Banks

09/25/2014Mises Daily Articles
Richard Ebeling explains the basics of how central banks cause booms and busts.
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Daily Sept 20 2014 Scotland Yes

Five Lessons Learned from the Scottish Referendum

Big GovernmentFree MarketsMoney and Banks

09/20/2014Mises Daily Articles
In spite of its failure in the short term, the Scottish campaign exposed elite dread of decentralization while establishing a precedent that regions can decide for themselves to secede even without a nation-wide vote. The campaign also illustrates anew ongoing trends in the decline of the nation-...
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