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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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Raise the Social Security Age to (at Least) 75

Monetary PolicyPoliticsSocialismU.S. Economy

02/08/2023Mises Media
As life expectancy has risen, so have runaway costs. Raising the age won't make Social Security just, prudent, or wise. But cutting federal spending is always the right thing to do.
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Questioning the Military Necessity of Dropping Atomic Bombs on Japanese Cities

U.S. HistoryWar and Foreign PolicyWorld History

02/08/2023Mises Media
Americans often have defended the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as regrettable but necessary for ending World War II. The actual record tells us a much different story.
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The State Uses Trauma as a Weapon against Innocent People

HealthThe Police State

02/07/2023Mises Media
In its unending quest for power, the state has no problem traumatizing the innocent.
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Wholesale Price Inflation Is Slowing as Economy Worsens

Global EconomyInflationU.S. Economy

02/07/2023Mises Media
A recession looks more likely every day, and the latest sign of this is slowing price growth in producer prices. After all, price inflation usually slows as the economy weakens and consumers run out of easy money.
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European Shadow Unemployment Is a Real Problem

EuropeMoney and BanksUnemployment

02/06/2023Mises Media
There is an undeniable negative trend in European employment and wages that is a direct consequence of constantly increasing intervention in the economy.
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Yes, the Minimum Wage Harms the Economy

Free MarketsLabor and WagesU.S. Economy

02/06/2023Mises Media
The imposition of minimum wages harms the economy, although there are nuances in how much harm they cause. It is better not to impose minimum wages at all.
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