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Republican Healthcare Plan Fails the "Jimmy Kimmel Test"

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Blog06/26/2017Ron Paul

Government health care creates shortages while driving up prices and preventing access to critical services.

Richard Cantillon Is Sleepless in Seattle

Business Cycles

Blog06/22/2017Doug French

Cheap money and Seattle's capital-fueled boom means Seattle may soon achieve Peak Skyscraper status.

Robert Shiller Is Shilling for the State

Booms and BustsBusiness Cycles

Blog05/30/2017Mark Thornton

For economist Robert Shiller, housing bubbles result from too little government regulation.

Rothbard: These Are the Best Libertarian Educators

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Blog05/24/2017Joseph T. Salerno

In a 1961 letter to F.A. Harper, Rothbard, listed who he felt were the world's most important libertarian educators.

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Rising Oil Prices Don't Cause Inflation

Prices

Blog05/01/2017Frank Shostak

The core driver of general increases in prices of goods and services is central-bank driven money-supply growth, not the price of oil.

RIP Will Grigg

Blog04/12/2017Jeff Deist

Will Grigg, full name William Norman Grigg, passed away today after a series of hospitalizations.

Rent Control Makes for Good Politics and Bad Economics

The EntrepreneurPolitical Theory

Blog04/10/2017Gary Galles

Politicians see that rent control is an easy way to buy some votes from many voters. Sadly, the policy only ends up hurting renters in the long run.

Remembering Burt Blumert

Blog03/30/2017David Gordon

Today is the eighth anniversary of the death of Burt Blumert, one of Murray Rothbard's closest friends and a key figure supporting the Mises Institute and Lew Rockwell.com.

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The V-Shaped Recovery Never Happened

Ryan McMaken

Some may remember all that talk about a "V-shaped recovery" last year. That was back when we were being assured that just a few weeks of lockdowns was going to bring the economy roaring back. Clearly, that never happened.

Rothbard Roundtable

Mises Institute

We asked some of our writers and scholars to talk about why Rothbard is worth remembering. Here's what they had to say.

To Stop the Left, America Needs a Rothbardian Right

Tho Bishop

Thankfully for the American right, there is another alternative to the neoconservatism of William Buckley, the neoliberalism of Milton Friedman, and the paleo-progressivism of Teddy Roosevelt: the libertarian populism of Murray Rothbard.

Money-Supply Growth Hits a New All-Time High in January

Ryan McMaken

In January, money supply growth hit a new all-time high, rising slightly above September 2020's previous high, and remaining well above growth levels that one year ago would have been considered unthinkable.

Public Schools Refuse to Open. Give the Taxpayers Their Money Back

Ryan McMaken

If grocery stores were run like public schools, they'd still be in the midst of an extended covid lockdown. Fortunately, though, we have a (mostly) privatized system, with vouchers for low-income shoppers. A similar system for schools would be a far saner choice than what we have now.

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Thorsten Polleit

Dr. Thorsten Polleit is Chief Economist of Degussa and Honorary Professor at the University of Bayreuth. He also...

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Republican Healthcare Plan Fails the "Jimmy Kimmel Test"

Richard Cantillon Is Sleepless in Seattle

Robert Shiller Is Shilling for the State

Rothbard: These Are the Best Libertarian Educators

Rising Oil Prices Don't Cause Inflation

RIP Will Grigg

Rent Control Makes for Good Politics and Bad Economics

Remembering Burt Blumert

What is Mises Wire?

The V-Shaped Recovery Never Happened

Rothbard Roundtable

To Stop the Left, America Needs a Rothbardian Right

Money-Supply Growth Hits a New All-Time High in January

Public Schools Refuse to Open. Give the Taxpayers Their Money Back

Thorsten Polleit

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