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The Myth of Planned Obsolescence

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2025/10/23

The concept of “planned obsolescence” makes no economic sense and is often an excuse for governments to harass and shake down innovative entrepreneurs. Much of so-called planned obsolescence is really entrepreneurship at work improving products for users and consumers.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/myth-planned-obsolescence

New Rothbard Letters Show His Early Opposition to...

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2025/10/22

“I see that you are preparing the groundwork for supporting Nixon,” Rothbard wrote Meyer. “Again, for shame! Is this what conservative principles are coming down to...?"Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/new-rothbard-letters-show-his-early-opposition-both-nixon-and-reagan

What Will the Next Gold Bust Look Like?

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2025/10/22

There have been four gold busts under the fiat dollar money regimes since the “freeing” of the gold price in March 1968.Will the current gold boom end in a similar bust?Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/what-will-next-gold-bust-look

Popular Media, Romanticism, and the Statist Insinuation

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2025/10/20

Popular views of capitalism and free markets are not shaped by the facts, but rather by anti-capitalist intellectuals and the media.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/popular-media-romanticism-and-statist-insinuation

Absolutism and the “Reason of State”: Rothbard on the...

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2025/10/02

The Renaissance period is seen as mostly positive by historians, but the sinister development of absolutism and the imperial state complicates the legacy of that time.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/absolutism-and-reason-state-rothbard-growth-statism

Charlie Kirk and the Sacred Totem of Civil Rights

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2025/09/17

One of the reasons Charlie Kirk was considered "divisive" was that he spoke out against the civil rights laws, which was interpreted as his supporting Jim Crow segregation. Yet, these laws did not increase liberty but rather imposed a new progressive vision on Americans.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/charlie-kirk-and-sacred-totem-civil-rights

Every Year is 1939 to the War Hawks

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2025/08/15

According to the neo-conservative war hawks, every so-called enemy is the Next Hitler and every year is 1939. The failure to seek new conflicts abroad is equated to the failure of Great Britain and France to stand up to Hitler before World War II broke out.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/every-year-1939-war-hawks

The Silent War for Latin America: How the Foro de São...

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2025/08/13

From seminary classrooms to Supreme Courts, a network redefined justice, democracy, and freedom in the name of social control. Many goals of the Foro de São Paulo, launched in 1990 by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Fidel Castro, sadly, are being realized.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/silent-war-latin-america-how-foro-de-sao-paulo-subverted-liberty-within

Inflation by Design: How Keynesian Dogma Undermines...

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2025/08/08

In most of the world, inflation is no longer an exception, it is the rule. Official inflation targets of 4 percent, 5 percent, or even 6 percent per year have become normalized.Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/inflation-design-how-keynesian-dogma-undermines-capitalism

The Last Day of Barter and Questions for the First...

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2025/08/08

In examining the Austrian Regression Theorem of Money, Joshua Mawhorter takes on the Chartalist/MMT claim that government gives money its value. The Chartalist/MMT advocates lack a necessary cause-and-effect mechanism to prove their claims.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/last-day-barter-and-questions-first-day-chartalism

Rothbard: The Constitution Was a Coup d'État

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2025/07/31

Rothbardtook the American Revolution to be mainly libertarian in its inspiration, but he contends that the libertarian impulses of the Revolution were betrayed by a centralizingcoupd’état.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/rothbard-constitution-was-coup-detat

Yes, Virginia, There IS a Deep State—and It Is Worse...

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2025/07/31

We like to think of the “deep state” as a conspiratorial entity. In reality, the term describes much of what the federal government does in broad daylight.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/yes-virginia-there-deep-state-and-it-worse-you-think

Human Reason as the Foundation of Civilization

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2025/07/26

Human reason, wrote Ludwig von Mises, is the basis for civilization itself. Western civilization, he said, was built upon economic progress that sprang from reason. However, he also warned that if the West abandoned sound economics, it would trigger its demise.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/human-reason-foundation-civilization

Energy Transition as a Tool for Fascist Capitalism

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2025/07/26

Europeans are being forced into an energy transition through debt-fueled spending that will lead to permanently higher energy prices and stifle European competitiveness. This won‘t change the climate, but it will make the people poorer.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/energy-transition-tool-fascist-capitalism

Four Reasons Why College Degrees Are Becoming Useless

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2025/07/25

If education and career skills are what you want, a college or university may be a waste of your time and money.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/four-reasons-why-college-degrees-are-becoming-useless

Busting the "Free College" Myth

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2025/07/25

If New Yorkers wanted to help students by paying for their tuition, they would have already done so on their own.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/busting-free-college-myth

America’s Syrian Civil War

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2025/07/25

In Syria the damage is done, and future generations will continue to suffer from the cruel folly of those convinced they know how to run everyone else’s lives.Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/americas-syrian-civil-war

An Honneth Effort

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2025/07/25

In this week's Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon takes on Alex Honneth's The Working Sovereign. While Dr. Gordon acknowledges that the author gives an "Honneth" effort, his logic and grasp of the world of work fall way short of being convincing.Original article: https://mises.org/friday-philosophy/honneth-effort

An Open Letter to Treasury Secretary Bessent

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2025/07/24

Dr. DiLorenzo has some words for Secretary Bessent about the true role of the Fed and its record in this open letter.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/open-letter-treasury-secretary-bessent

Private Property and Customer Safety: Starbucks...

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2025/07/24

The news that Starbucks is closing sixteen stores due to customer safety concerns exposesthe lack of police protection in cities and the problems with allowing noncustomers to remain in stores.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/private-property-and-customer-safety-starbucks-learns-hard-lesson

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