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Jeff Bezos Got Rich By Giving His Customers What They Want

The EntrepreneurPricesValue and Exchange

Blog04/07/2017Chris Calton

Jeff Bezos is now rivaling Bill Gates for the richest man in the world title, but only after decades of making everybody else a little bit richer first.

Jeff Deist: Trump Is Just a Speed Bump for the Left

Media and CulturePolitical Theory

Blog03/15/2017Mises Institute

Has the left been crippled by Trump and Brexit, or is it really the conservatives who are on life support? Watch Jeff Deist on CrossTalk.

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Justice and "Social Justice" Are Two Very Different Things

Taxes and SpendingPhilosophy and MethodologyPolitical Theory

Blog02/23/2017Gary Galles

There's no way to square the coercive positive rights of “social justice” with the concept of “liberty and justice for all.”

January's Top Ten Most-Read Articles

U.S. EconomyPolitical Theory

Blog02/01/2017Mises Institute

January's top ten most-read articles measured by page views.

Jeff Sessions's Drug War May End What's Left of States' Rights

Legal SystemU.S. HistoryPolitical Theory

Blog01/10/2017Ryan McMaken

The Drug War has become a linchpin in the fight against continued federal centralization of power. Jeff Sessions is on the wrong side of the fight.

Jean-Baptiste Say, on the 250th Anniversary of His Birth

BiographiesPolitical Theory

Blog01/01/2017Gary Galles

J.B. Say was the foremost French political economist in the early 1800s, and many of his insights are important for economists today.

Justin Raimondo: What Trump Means

War and Foreign PolicyPolitical Theory

Blog12/20/2016Justin Raimondo

Political globalization and the US's current foreign policy are facing real obstacles in a Donald Trump administration.

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Just Boundaries and National Self-Determination

War and Foreign PolicyPolitical Theory

Blog06/20/2016Murray N. Rothbard

The whole point of national self-determination is to get top-down coercive power out of the picture.

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The Oil-Price Shock Is a Direct Consequence of Interventionism.

Daniel Lacalle

This is the first time in human history that the energy transition has been decided by politicians without allowing technology, competition, or human ingenuity to come up with a better, more flexible, and more economical alternative.

Striking Autoworkers Will Only Harm Their Own Livelihoods

Connor O'Keeffe

Autoworkers are angry at their working situation and are striking for higher wages and a shorter work week. Their anger is misdirected.

Armed Neutrality Is the Only Moral Foreign Policy

Ryan McMaken

The interventionist impulse is to alienate, divide, vilify, bomb, kill, and endlessly sow international discord. Yet it is the proponents of peace and trade, we are told, who are the "isolationists."

Strikes Always Have Economic Consequences and the Latest UAW Strike Is No Exception

John Kennedy

The UAW's strike against US automakers will do long-term damage to the domestic auto industry. Unfortunately, unions and their advocates will learn nothing from this debacle.

The Eurozone: An Example of Failed Keynesianism

Daniel Lacalle

We should not be surprised that credit in the eurozone is falling along with monetary aggregates. The entire burden of monetary normalization is falling on the productive sector, families, and businesses, while many governments continue to increase deficit spending.

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