Is Trump Preparing for the Next Civil War, or Already Fighting It?

10/13/2025 Notes in the Margin

Karen Kwiatkowski: The civil war is ongoing, and Trump sits astride a state that is reacting far too late and with one hand tied behind its back.

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A Loose Versus Tight Monetary Stance

10/13/2025 Mises Wire Frank Shostak

After central bank expansionary efforts have unleashed inflation, officials then seek to contract the money supply in an attempt to undo the inflationary damage. No contractionary policy, however, can fix the problems caused by monetary manipulation.

Trump’s Rare Earth Metal Intervention

10/13/2025 Power & Market Stephen Anderson

Many fans of Austrian economics know the MP Materials and US Rare Earth REM financing agreements will end badly with crony capitalism sourced from nonsense.

Constitutional Reform in Jamaica: Sentiment or Substance?

10/13/2025 Mises Wire Lipton Matthews

Jamaica’s constitutional reform will achieve nothing if it continues to indulge the politics of resentment rather than building the framework for liberty.

Breaking Free From State Rule

10/11/2025 Mises Wire George Ford Smith

The present US regime is far more tyrannical than the British government that supposedly was so intolerable that independence was the only way out. Perhaps it is time for another Declaration of Independence.

How Double Standards Erode Free Speech

10/11/2025 Mises Wire Wanjiru Njoya

Free speech is not an ideological issue. As Murray Rothbard noted, it really is an issue tied to private property rights.

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