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Oxfam's Hypocrisy on Private Wealth

The EntrepreneurWorld HistoryPolitical Theory

Blog01/18/2017Mateusz MachajMateusz Benedyk

By Oxfam's methods, anyone with a few bucks in the bank is causing poverty for the bottom 10%. Oxfam, of course, has much more than a few bucks.

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Obamacare: Is It Worse Than What Came Before It?

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Blog01/11/2017Per Bylund

The US economy has been so malformed by interventionist policy, it has become difficult to say how even a policy of repeal might distort markets.

Lew Rockwell at the 2016 Boston Mises Circle

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Our Prospects Are Bright

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10/03/2016Audio/VideoLlewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

Watch or listen to Lew Rockwell's talk from the Mises Circle in Boston.

Omnipotent Government by Ludwig von Mises

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Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War

War and Foreign PolicyWorld HistoryPolitical Theory

08/03/2016Audio/VideoLudwig von Mises

Mises on the malignant ideology behind Nazism. Download the complete audio book for free.

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Open Borders Are an Assault on Private Property

Big GovernmentPolitical TheoryPrivate Property

11/16/2015Mises WireLlewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

Much of the immigration we witness today is not a result of market outcomes, but are government-subsidized migrations. Libertarians defending these mass migrations as if they were market phenomena are only helping to discredit and undermine the true free market.

My Path to the Austrian School of Economics

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

There is no more stopping the Mises School. And when the truth finally wins out, because only what is true can also work smoothly in the long run, then the hour of the Austrian School of Economics will have come.

How California's Government Plans to Make Wildfires Even Worse

Ryan McMaken

The State of California is now forcing insurance companies to cover homeowners who put their houses in some of the most fire-prone areas. What could go wrong?

We Don't Need Sunday "Blue Laws"

Ryan McMaken

Advocates for "blue laws" want to impose more laws on shopkeepers. These moral crusaders should instead start by setting a good example, and stop watching football games, ordering pizzas, or filling up on gas on Sunday.

The Benefits of Free Trade Are Canceled Out by Domestic Interventionism

Carmen Elena Dorobăț

Trade agreements have thus become obsolete tokens of negotiation in larger geopolitical disputes, protectionist tools for managing and interfering with global trade flows.

How to Avoid Civil War: Decentralization, Nullification, Secession

Ryan McMaken

So long as we insist the federal government can force one law, one culture, and one sort of politics on all of America, the US is headed down the road of civil war. Only decentralization and separation can partly defuse the situation.