Mises Wire

Politicians Have Destroyed Markets and Ignored Human Rights with Alarming Enthusiasm

Big GovernmentPolitical Theory

Blog05/02/2020

Politicians and media have combined with an obedient and frightened electorate to abolish civil liberties and destroy the markets that are so key to fighting poverty.

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Praxeology and Mathematical Logic

Philosophy and Methodology

Blog04/24/2020

Some argue that praxeology's deductions should be formalized using mathematical logic, but such an approach would be inappropriate for human action, whose axioms are known.

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Preface to Anatomy of the Crash

The FedBusiness Cycles

Blog04/18/2020

One of the important aims of the Anatomy of the Crash is to highlight the truly global nature of the monetary policy failings since 2008—not simply critiquing the actions of the Federal Reserve, but their colleagues at the European Central Bank, the Bank of Japan, and elsewhere.

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Price Controls Mean Shortages, Even during Pandemics

Price Controls

Blog04/02/2020

Despite many attempts at doing so, governments have never been able to conjure up more goods and services through price controls and other regulations.

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Politicians Have Used This Crisis to Remind Us They're Mostly Wannabe Dictators

Big GovernmentPolitical Theory

Blog03/26/2020

From small villages to Capitol Hill, politicians are using every opportunity to void the Bill of Rights and abolish all limits on their power.

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Politicians Are Calling for Lots of "Bold" Plans. Watch Out.

ProgressivismTaxes and Spending

Blog03/16/2020

With both major political parties seemingly uninterested in the long-term fiscal stability of the United States, the only near-term solution for the spendthrift class in Washington, DC, is to either raise taxes or spend recklessly.

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Popper and the Course of History

Philosophy and Methodology

Blog02/28/2020

Can a scientific law allow us to predict the course of history? Marxists lean in this direction, but Karl Popper says it's impossible. Is he right?

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Pete Buttigieg's Sovietesque Plan for Rural Revitalization

ImmigrationPovertySocialismTaxes and Spending

Blog02/25/2020

Buttigieg's plan to repopulate depressed rural areas with immigrants reminds one of old Soviet schemes to ship people to Siberia to stimulate the economy there.

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