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Millions and Billions and Trillions—Oh My!

Big GovernmentEconomic PolicyMacroeconomicsMedia and Culture

Blog11/30/2023

In The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy and her friends had to worry about wild animals and wicked witches. Today, Americans face a much more formidable foe: their own free-spending government.

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Milei's Long-Term Victory Depends on Him Winning in the Battle of Ideas

Blog11/20/2023

Free-market intellectuals, activists, and columnists must never tire of endlessly recapitulating the truth about freedom, free markets, and peace. So long as a sizable portion of the Argentine public thinks the Peronists "get it right," no free-market reformer can succeed.

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Mounting Deficits Mark the US's Road to Ruin

Money and BanksU.S. Economy

Blog10/28/2023

For 2023, the United States will likely post the worst GDP growth—excluding debt increases—since 1929. In other words, the country is in a recession disguised by bloated deficit spending.

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Mises on the History of Warfare

CapitalismWar and Foreign PolicyWorld HistoryInterventionism

Blog10/27/2023

As war rages in the Middle East, we are reminded of what Mises wrote in 1949 on warfare and its awful effects.

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Making Money While Making Sense of Chaos: Understanding the World of the Traders

Financial MarketsEntrepreneurshipValue and Exchange

Blog10/16/2023

Robert Murphy explains how traders make money in a world of uncertainty and diabolical risk.

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Mark Thornton Explains the Yield Curve, "Soft Landings," and Today's Bubble Economy

Blog10/10/2023

In this Q and A with Dr. Mark Thornton, we look at where the bubbles are in today's boom cycles—and where it is all headed.

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Mises versus Hayek on the Future of Civilization

HayekCalculation and KnowledgePhilosophy and MethodologyPolitical TheoryPraxeology

Blog09/05/2023

While F.A. Hayek is known for his term “spontaneous order,” Mises saw institutional development as coming from growth in human understanding of things.

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Marxist States Never "Wither Away" as Marx Predicted

DemocracyLanguageSocialismWorld History

Blog08/25/2023

David Gordon continues his analysis of Graham Priest’s book, Capitalism: Its Nature and Its Replacement. While Priest might not understand either Marxism or capitalism, his book has useful insights.

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