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Profits or Perish: Survival Depends on Economic Gains

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2025/04/28

Profits aren’t immoral—they’re necessary. Just as organisms need a net energy surplus to live, societies need profits to sustain themselves.

The Elusive Meaning of Equal Opportunities

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2025/04/26

People claim to support “equal opportunity” over the idea of equal outcomes, but when one examines both concepts, it becomes obvious that neither is possible or even desirable. Murray Rothbard understood more than most that equality of opportunity is a chimera.

Why Do So Many Bad Economists Support the Austrian...

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2025/04/26

Why do mainstream economists suddenly think clearly when it comes to tariffs—but abandon logic elsewhere? Mark Thornton unpacks why even Krugman and Marx agree with Austrians on free trade.

The Race/Starting-Point Fallacy

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2025/04/25

It is often asserted without challenge that “life is like a race” and it wouldn‘t be a fair race without the same “starting-line.” While this analogy has some truth, it is largely fallacious and more than implies an ever-present state to provide “equal opportunity.”

The Goldbug Variations

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2025/04/25

Dr. Gordon reviews Quinn Slobodian‘s latest book trashing the Austrians, especially Murray Rothbard. Not surprisingly, Slobodian shows little understanding of the Austrians and economic history.

Trump's Monetary Policy Favors the Wealthy over...

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2025/04/25

Trump has tried to claim that he favors "Main Street over Wall Street." Unfortunately, by pushing aggressive low-interest-rate monetary policy, Trump has put himself squarely in the camp of “Wall Street over Main Street.”

Should Economists Champion Fed "Independence"?

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2025/04/25

As Trump challenges Powell and the Fed’s authority, Dr. Joe Salerno joins Bob to dive into whether "central bank independence" really protects the economy—or just shields elite power.

Why Did Trump Arrest a Student for Writing an Op-Ed?

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2025/04/25

James Bovard joins host Ryan McMaken to talk about how the White House went from targeting illegal aliens to seizing legal residents guilty of the "crime" of criticizing the government of the State of Israel.

Scholar Spotlight—Jason Jewell

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2025/04/25

Jason Jewell is chief academic officer and vice chancellor for strategic initiatives of the State University System of Florida. He began attending Mises Institute events as a graduate student in 2002.

mises.org (1995–): The Early Years

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2025/04/25

This year marks the 30th anniversary of the founding of mises.org. In 1995, as soon as it became possible to purchase domain names and contract with private servers, we snapped up “mises.org,” and the rest is history.

The Economic Fallacies Underpinning Hitler’s...

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2025/04/25

While focusing on the Holocaust, people often forget the economic fallacies of the Third Reich. Hitler‘s policies were based upon socialism and state control, a no regime can prosper under those condition.

The Making of the State

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2025/04/25

In “The Making of the State,” Prof. Modugno shows that even as the state was coming into being, historians and scholars understood that it was something new and different and that the state is central to what we now call “modernity,” which is defined by the overwhelming power of states.

Covid Lockdowns, Money, and Interest: An Interview...

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2025/04/25

The covid-19 pandemic gave rise to widespread lockdowns and some of the greatest peacetime infringements on personal liberties in history.

Planet of the Abes

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2025/04/25

Prophetic Statesmanship is worth reading as an example of the misplaced ingenuity with which intelligent scholars can defend ridiculous views. Efforts to unify Americans in the worship of the godlike Abraham Lincoln cannot succeed.

Excerpts from the Keynote Lectures at AERC

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2025/04/25

Excerpts from the 2025 Memorial Lectures presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conference in Auburn, Alabama.

No, Powell Is Not "Keeping Interest Rates High"

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2025/04/24

The latest bogus narrative of this sort comes from one of my readers who is convinced that Trump is right in denouncing those central bankers who inflate too little.

Whatever Happened to the Green New Deal?

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2025/04/24

The Green New Deal was proposed in 2019 and became the legislative centerpiece of the Biden administration. Like the first New Deal, it has garnered favorable media coverage, legislative hype, unkept promises, and a dismal track record.

March home sales drop to their slowest pace since 2009

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2025/04/24

Sales of previously owned homes in March fell 5.9% from February to 4.02 million units. That’s the slowest March sales pace since 2009.

Trump's Inflationist Monetary Policy Favors Wall...

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2025/04/24

Trump’s current drive for lower interest rates and more easy money is doing little or nothing to help the working-class and ordinary people Trump claims he is helping.

The Deserving End to the Post-War Order

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2025/04/24

The sun finally is setting on the world order that emerged after World War II, including the Cold War. This is not for lack of trying by US and European politicians, but they cannot stop the entire apparatus from collapsing under its own weight.

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