Mises Wire

COP28: Scandal on Top of Fabrication

Bureaucracy and RegulationThe EnvironmentProgressivismSocialism

Blog12/09/2023

As climate activists gather this coming week in Abu Dhabi, there is trouble in climate paradise. Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, the meeting's host, is not on the same page with the Climate Apocalyptics, which, of course, gives him the dreaded moniker of “climate denier.”

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Can Milei Really Shut Down Argentina's Central Bank?

Money and Banks

Blog12/02/2023

Argentina was a rich country made poor by socialism. It needs to abandon socialism to become rich again.

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Can Government Regulate Artificial Super Intelligence?

Big GovernmentBureaucracy and RegulationLawMedia and Culture

Blog11/23/2023

The Biden administration claims it wants to get out in front of the development of artificial intelligence. However, the likely scenario is that AI will leave government regulators in its wake.

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Can Econometric Models Provide a Laboratory Setting for Economic Analysis?

KeynesEntrepreneurshipPhilosophy and Methodology

Blog11/21/2023

Econometric models are constructed with the idea that they can be substituted for authentic human action. Not surprisingly, they fail badly.

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Cryptocurrency: Integrity Destroyer or Policy Scapegoat?

BitcoinEconomic PolicyMoney and Banks

Blog11/17/2023

Is cryptocurrency a scam or is it a legitimate alternative to state-corrupted money? Political elites want to eliminate it altogether, but that alone should tell us we need to better understand this alternative money source.

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Contra CATO: COVID-19 Vaccinations Are Not a Free Market Victory

Big GovernmentCronyism and CorporatismMedia and CulturePolitics

Blog11/04/2023

A Cato Institute associate has declared the development of the covid-19 vaccines to be a free-market “triumph.” The only thing that has triumphed in this sorry episode has been the rapid growth of coercive government power.

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Coauthor of War College Journal Article Tries to Backtrack on Call for "Partial Conscription"

Big GovernmentBureaucracy and RegulationPoliticsWar and Foreign Policy

Blog11/02/2023

After an earlier article by Zachary Yost on a call by military “experts” to reinstate the military draft, the authors of the original paper are trying to back off on their original recommendation. But there is no doubt as to what they want the government to do.

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China’s Inefficient and Unsustainable Central Planning

Economic PolicyGlobal EconomySocialismWorld History

Blog10/31/2023

China's so-called economic miracle is running into the ground as the reality of central planning becomes increasingly obvious and an economic reckoning looms.

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