Mises Wire

Silent Cal Had a Lot to Say

Blog12/08/2023

His policies took more than a million people off the income tax rolls, and 98% of Americans paid no income tax at the end of his term. As a result, America prospered under Coolidge. Real economic growth averaged 7% per year while he was in office.

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Should We Embrace the Stateless Roman Political Thought?

AnarchyDemocracyLibertarianismSecession

Blog11/29/2023

The concept of the state has more to do with the worldview of ancient Greek philosophers than with the Roman Empire. We could learn a few things about statelessness from the Romans.

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Student Loans: The Continuing Crisis That Is Getting Worse

Big GovernmentCorporate WelfareLabor and WagesU.S. History

Blog11/27/2023

The student loan program is descending into chaos and the Biden administration is clueless about what to do. Furthermore, the value of a college education continues to fall while college costs increase.

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Seven Reasons to Abandon the Public Health System

Big GovernmentBureaucracy and RegulationHealthSocialism

Blog11/24/2023

Government-run medical systems are always touted by political elites, who usually take advantage of private care themselves. It is time for everyone else to have access to the same system.

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Sovereign Debt is Eating the World

Financial MarketsWorld HistoryMoney and Banking

Blog11/11/2023

Sovereign debt is eating the world. Lining up a financial crash that could make 2008 look like a picnic. How did we get here?

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Statist Ideology and War: Israel versus Hamas

Big GovernmentThe Police StateWar and Foreign Policy

Blog11/08/2023

As this author previously has noted, the ideology of statism is responsible for much of the violence that plagues the world. We see this played out in Israel's aggressive retaliatory attacks in Gaza in response to the October 7 killings by Hamas.

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Statism Is the Cause of the Israel-Hamas War

LibertarianismPoliticsThe Police StateWar and Foreign Policy

Blog10/30/2023

This latest Middle East conflict is ultimately little more than gang warfare. We oppose it as a matter of principle.

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Spending More Taxpayer Money on Foreign Policy Boondoggles Has Solved Nothing

Cronyism and CorporatismDemocracyEconomic PolicyWar and Foreign Policy

Blog10/10/2023

The US government doesn't just blow money in the US. Indeed, the reach of its wasteful spending spans the globe, and Congress seems incapable of stopping it.

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