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We Cannot Predict the Many Ways Freedom Will Improve Our Lives

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What would happen if the FDA didn’t ensure that food was safe and the EPA didn’t protect us from pollution? What would happen if the SEC didn’t rein in Wall Street and the FTC and antitrust laws didn’t protect us from monopolies and collusion? The answer is “I don’t know; no one knows.” But someone would come up with an solution.

Starvation and Military Keynesianism: Lessons from Nazi Germany

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Many Americans, from the Glenview State Bank of Chicago to author Ellen Brown assume that the Nazi economic regime was successful, but closer examination tells a tale of rationing, shortages, and starvation. Learning why their economy failed can teach us how to avoid the same fate.

Can You Get College Credit for Attending Mises University?

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According to this Mises U alum, Mises U experience can be applied to some degree programs:

Thank you @mises Just found out I’m getting Field Study credits at Virginia Tech for my time at Mises U this summer! pic.twitter.com/WiG5fEnOEK
— Anti State (@AdamBlacksburg) December 12, 2013

A Year-End Message From Lew Rockwell

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Who Needs the Debt Ceiling?

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The singular brilliance of the debt ceiling is that it keeps reminding everyone that there is a growing national debt that never seems to shrink. That is a tremendous service to American citizens who live in the dark regarding the borrowing machinations of their political overlords.

How the Paper Money Experiment Will End

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A paper currency system contains the seeds of its own destruction. The temptation for the monopolist money producer to increase the supply is almost irresistible. A drastic reduction of government spending and deficits is not very likely either, given the incentives for politicians in democracies. So what is to come?

Why Are Obamacare Exchange Policies So Bad?

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The only way to provide good medical services at a reasonable cost is to bring back market pricing. We need the market not only to get supply and demand back into balance, but also to decide what exactly will be supplied. When was the last time that anyone saw a normal market price in medicine?

Pope Francis, Income Inequality, Poverty, and Capitalism

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The criticisms of free markets in Pope Francis’s Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Gaudium (”The Joy of the Gospel”) have generated strong reactions around the world. One example is a recent post by Gregory Mankiw on his blog with brief but interesting reflections.

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