Mises Wire

Sports Betting and Spontaneous Order

Free MarketsHayek

Blog11/14/2022

One place a price system manifests itself is the sports betting markets. The results are surprisingly accurate.

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Secession: Coming to a State Near You?

Big GovernmentSecession

Blog10/21/2022

Ryan McMaken has made a serious case for secession as a means to counter totalitarianism. David Gordon explains why this is the case.

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Student Loan Debt: The Financial Time Bomb Politicians Want to Ignore

Corporate WelfareTaxes and SpendingU.S. Economy

Blog10/20/2022

President Biden's nonsolution of partial "debt forgiveness" is in limbo, but the slow financial destruction that massive student loan debt is unleashing continues.

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Slavery Did Not Promote Capitalism: The New Economic History of Capitalism Is Simply Wrong

CapitalismFree MarketsU.S. History

Blog10/18/2022

Academic historians of the "acclaimed" new history of capitalism have a major weakness: their claims do not match the historical record.

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Student Loan Forgiveness Treats the Symptom, Not the Disease

Cronyism and CorporatismProgressivismTaxes and Spending

Blog09/27/2022

President Biden's recent student loan forgiveness initiative only exacerbates the real problem: the cost of a college education, thanks to government intervention, is outrageously high.

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Should the Fed Increase the Money Supply in Response to a Growing Economy?

The FedMonetary Policy

Blog09/26/2022

Standard economic theory states that as an economy grows, the money supply should grow with it. Appealing to the Austrian tradition, Frank Shostak shows that belief is mistaken.

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Seeing the Student Loan Crisis as a Form of Boom and Bust

Booms and BustsBusiness Cycles

Blog09/24/2022

Conservatives have missed the point that it is not students particularly that are at fault for the student loan crises, but the entire bureaucratic economic-political system.

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Socialism Is Not Groupthink, but Statethink: A Brief Comment on Jordan Peterson

Socialism

Blog09/17/2022

Jordan Peterson has linked identity politics to socialism. Instead, socialism is about empowering the state.

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