Mises Wire

Death by Inflation or by Interest Rate Hikes?

Central banks are going to receive fierce (and well-deserved) criticism, whatever they do. Pick your poison: inflation or bankruptcy.

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Deconstruction: Using Literature to Promote Marxism

Education

Blog11/16/2021

Many students may not even realize they are being subtly indoctrinated, slowly trained to see the world as a socialist or “through a Marxist lens.”

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Digitalization Could Move Medical Care beyond "Government Healthcare"

Health

Blog10/25/2021

Government healthcare is centrally planned healthcare. Innovations in the decentralized "digitalization" of medicine could finally move medicine back in the direction of markets.

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Don’t Expect Foreign Policy Experts to be Held Accountable for Afghanistan

War and Foreign Policy

Blog10/13/2021

Until there’s a new foreign policy class informed by an outlook of restraint, no kind of punishment or demotion of those who prosecuted the bungled wars of the past few decades should be expected.

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Defaulting on the Debt Is the Moral Thing to Do

U.S. History

Blog09/30/2021

Raising the debt limit will only delay the inevitable while courting fiscal and monetary chaos: higher interest rates, cuts to social programs, a declining dollar, and price inflation. 

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Double Your Gift on Mises's Birthday!

Blog09/29/2021

The crisis may change, but their answer will remain the same: the sacrifice of our freedom to the whims of would-be central planners. We must keep lit the torch that Ludwig von Mises has passed down to us.

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Debunking Biden's Claim We Must "Protect the Vaccinated from the Unvaccinated"

Law

Blog09/17/2021

It is claimed that vaccines are remarkably effective. But it is also claimed the unvaccinated are a grave threat to the vaccinated. How can both be true at the same time?

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Don't Be Fooled by the Fed's Taper Talk

Money and Banks

Blog08/23/2021

There won't be a taper tantrum if the Fed seriously moves toward tapering. Investors now understand how the game works. Tapering doesn't actually mean the end of monetary inflation, and everyone knows it. 

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