Mises Wire

Price Inflation Slowed to 3 Percent. That's Still Far Too High.

Blog07/24/2023

Three percent annual price inflation for ten years is a loss of purchasing power of 34 percent in what is already a disastrous inflationary environment. This is not "victory over price inflation."

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Pennsylvania Legislators Want Higher Unemployment, Government Dependency, and Crime

Economic PolicyLabor and WagesUnemployment

Blog07/11/2023

Pennsylvania legislators don't claim to be putting people out of work or killing job opportunities. They claim they just want workers to earn more pay.

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Paleoconservatives Need Better Critics

AnarchyEconomic FreedomMedia and CultureU.S. History

Blog07/08/2023

To seriously threaten the regime, one must attack it at its roots. This would require rejecting the modern civil rights legal regime, something modern Buckleyite conservatives and James Lindsay-style liberals are not interested in, and unites paleoconservatives and paleolibertarians.

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Producers, Not Consumers, Are the Engine of Economic Growth

Booms and BustsCentral BanksInflationKeynesMonetary Policy

Blog06/28/2023

The Keynesian prescription for an economic downturn is for government to increase spending to improve so-called aggregate demand. In reality, this is a recipe for worsening the recession.

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Powell Sends Mixed Messages as He Chickens Out on Rate Hikes

Money and Banks

Blog06/21/2023

What happens next will depend heavily on what the regime will feel is necessary to buoy public support for the regime and its current ruling party. 

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Property Rights, Civilization, and Their Enemies

Blog06/03/2023

Political cronyism and legal plunder are especially visible in the alliances between pharmaceutical corporations, the banking industry, “tech” companies, and the state.

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Price Inflation Growth Slowed Slightly in April. Now Wall Street Will Demand More Easy Money.

Money and Banks

Blog05/12/2023

April was yet another month of declining real wages, and was the twenty-fifth month in a row during which growth in average hourly earnings failed to keep up with price inflation.

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Progressives Want to Eliminate Wealthy Entrepreneurs but Need the Wealth They Create

Big GovernmentMedia and CultureProgressivismSocialismEntrepreneurship

Blog05/11/2023

Modern culture is biased against those that are rich even while depending upon the wealth that successful entrepreneurs have created.

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