Clifford F. Thies

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05/04/2026 Power & Market Clifford F. Thies

The best guarantee of jobs in the industry isn’t subsidies for the losers, but the prospect of profits for the winners.

10/14/2025 Mises Wire Clifford F. Thies

The famous phrase was uttered by William H. Vanderbilt, which was interpreted to mean that the capitalists didn’t care for their customers. Vanderbilt knew he worked for his stockholders, but in working for them, he had to provide for his railroad’s passengers.

Gold Bonds and Silver Agitation

07/30/2014 Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics Clifford F. Thies

During the late nineteenth century, when silver agitation threatened the gold standard in the United States, gold bonds offered investors some protection from the uncertainties concerning the monetary standard in the United States.

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Mises and Climate Change

03/26/2008 Clifford F. Thies

It is one thing to be concerned about the possible impact of the sum of many tiny human actions on the climate of the planet on which we find ourselves, for this is entirely consistent with choosing life. It is quite another thing to presume that we

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