Mises Wire

Government Redistribution Is the REAL Trickle-Down Economics

Bureaucracy and RegulationCronyism and CorporatismProgressivism

Blog05/19/2023

President Biden recently claimed that "trickle-down economics" doesn't work but transferring wealth from taxpayers to politically connected people is the real trickle-down economics.

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Government Budget Deficits Cannot Stimulate True Economic Growth

Big GovernmentThe FedKeynesTaxes and Spending

Blog04/25/2023

A central tenet of Keynesian economics is that governments must run budget deficits to stimulate economic growth. But government spending actually shrinks the economy.

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Governments Can't Blame Inflation on Energy and Putin Anymore

Money and Banks

Blog03/29/2023

We are all poorer, even if headline price inflation is slightly lower. Slowing CPI growth does not mean lower prices, just a slower pace of destruction of the purchasing power of money.

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Government Is as Government Does

Big GovernmentBureaucracy and RegulationCronyism and CorporatismDecentralization and SecessionSocialismTaxes and Spending

Blog03/13/2023

If we have learned anything from hundreds of years of government oppression and atrocities, one thing is certain: government isn't our friend.

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Gustave de Molinari, First Anarcho-Capitalist

World History

Blog03/06/2023

Molinari's "liberal principles had been proclaimed by Cobden, Gladstone and Bright in England, and by Turgot, Say, Chevalier and Bastiat in France."

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Good Causes, Brand Trust, and Profits: Why YouTuber’s Private Charity Is Wrongly Criticized

Economic FreedomThe EntrepreneurMedia and CultureEntrepreneurship

Blog02/17/2023

When Jimmy Donaldson, better known on YouTube as MrBeast, paid for a thousand people to have cataract surgery, the usual suspects in the media panned him and questioned his motives.

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Governments Cannot Effectively Regulate Vaccines

Bureaucracy and RegulationStrategy

Blog01/26/2023

Because government officials do not worry about the consequences of making mistakes, the government should not be permitted to regulate anything as important as vaccines.

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Governments Will Make You Poorer Again

Global Economy

Blog01/21/2023

Inflation at an annual rate of 5 percent is not a positive, and it is certainly not falling prices. Inflation is accumulative, and this means we are becoming poorer faster.

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