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Mises DailyJune 7, 1999Tibor R. Machan

The use and abuse of a nebulous slogan. (Commentary by Tibor R. Machan)

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A Live Blog From Salamanca

Mises DailyOctober 30, 2009Jeffrey A. Tucker

Our talks today were in the Chapter room where Francisco Vitoria taught and the professors of the 15th and 16th centuries gave papers for each other before their public presentations at the university.

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Zoning Laws Destroy Communities

Mises DailyApril 30, 2010Troy Camplin

Zoning laws are a violation of property rights.

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A Tradition of Defaults

Mises DailyJuly 17, 2002Antony P. Mueller

Argentina and now Brazil are the latest chapters in Latin America's long financial history of foreign debt and default, writes Antony Mueller. It is a consequence of bad policy, underwritten by international financial institutions and subsidized from a pervasive culture of debt...

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Does Wal-Mart Destroy Communities?

Mises DailyMay 1, 2004William L. Anderson

We have heard all the claims 10,000 times, and here William Anderson deals with the main ones.

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Understanding Argentina’s Coming Default

Mises DailyJuly 30, 2014Nicolás Cachanosky

The problem is that Argentina had decided to once again prefer deficits and unrestrained government spending to paying its obligations.

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The High Price of Delaying the Default

Mises DailyFebruary 26, 2014Thorsten Polleit

A central-bank induced boom cannot continue forever. The piper must be paid.

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There Is Life after Default

Mises DailyOctober 11, 2013Peter G. Klein

A default on US government debt is no more or less radical than a default on any other kind of debt.

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The Upside of Argentina's Default

Mises DailyDecember 17, 2002Christopher Westley

By defaulting on one loan, Argentina may be acknowledging that no country ever became wealthy depending on public financing organizations from another hemisphere. One can hope. Such ideas can lead to economic sovereignty and wealth creation. Such ideas, if spread, can cause industrial revolutions.

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Hyperinflation Is Not Inevitable (Default Is)

Mises DailyAugust 20, 2012Gary North

The US government cannot use hyperinflation to escape the the promises it made to retirees.

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There Is Life after Default

Mises DailyJuly 22, 2011Peter G. Klein

So, isn't it time to demythologize all of this? Treasuries are bonds just like any other bonds. There's nothing magic, mythical, or sacred about them. A default on US government debt is no more or less radical than a default on any other kind of debt...

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Defaulting on the Fed's Bonds

Mises DailyJuly 11, 2011Robert P. Murphy

Ron Paul recently made (another) splash among economic pundits with his suggestion that the Treasury simply cancel the $1.6 trillion in its debt.

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Social Security: The Long Slow Default

Mises DailyNovember 11, 2015Kirby R. Cundiff

Social Security has never involved legally-binding contracts between the government and those who allegedly “pay in.” Nevertheless, the government has long pretended that there is a contract, except when it gets in the way of raising taxes to keep the program afloat...

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How Greek Default May Still Unravel the EU

Mises DailyJanuary 23, 2015Frank Hollenbeck

The Greeks may still default, and that would mean big trouble not so much for Greece as for other EU member states who will be on the hook for even more bailouts.

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A Short History of US Credit Defaults

Mises DailyJuly 15, 2011John S. Chamberlain

A credit default is not unprecedented. One occurred as early as 1777 and another as late as 1979.

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The Social Function of Credit-Default Swaps

Mises DailyJune 29, 2010Philipp Bagus

"By anticipating the future, speculators may bring about events earlier and reduce their potential harm."...

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Default! Default!

The Free MarketNovember 1, 2001Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

We will never resort to a bailout, said the Bush administration concerning the financial failures of the Argentinian government. That was one week before the same administration arranged an $8 billion line of credit for the same government.

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To Serve and Protect: Privatization and Community in Criminal Justice by Bruce L. Benson

Quarterly Journal of Austrian EconomicsLaurent Carnis

T o Serve and Protect is a breath of fresh air in the fog of mainstream recommendations concerning security, crime, and punishment. In the mainstream literature, liberals typically regard the offender as the victim of an egoistic society and conservatives typically say that the only way to reduce...

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The Enterprise of Community: Market Competition, Land, and Environment

The Journal of Libertarian StudiesSpencer Heath MacCallum

We hear a lot of expressed concern about conserving the environment, but no one talks much about producing it. Why not manufacture it competitively and sell it in the free market like other goods and services—and even bundle it with product support? As a matter of fact, that is being done. It...

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The Looming Default

Audio/VideoOctober 25, 2013Mark Thornton

Interviewed by host Marina Dzhashi, Mark Thornton discusses the U.S. government shutdown and its impact on the country's economy and image abroad...

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