Mises Wire

We will win. But how long will it take, and at what price victory?

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The original "leftists" wanted to abolish government regulation and controls. The rightists were the old control-freak authoritarians. But then the Jacobins hijacked the Left. 

In order to demand goods and services individuals must produce something useful first. Hence, supply drives demand and not the other way around. 

Economic depressions are not caused by a strong decline in the money stock, but by a depleted stock of real savings.

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The new "gold-exchange standard" of the 1920s was a new concoction of the world's regimes after the Great War.  It certainly wasn't a true gold standard. 

The true cost of America's wars—in lost productivity, resources, and opportunity cost—is far higher than even the official numbers of trillions spent on the Pentagon's many failures.

For Jesus and his followers, private enterprise was there from birth, through life, and to death, providing a refuge of safety and productivity, just as it has in our time.

Crack-up booms have historically facilitated the growth of authoritarian political movements. This is not inevitable. But we do need radical change to today's fiscal and monetary disasters.