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The Federal Reserve Protection Racket

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2025/04/03

We spend very little time and effort learning about what the hundreds of government agencies are doing. Agencies like the Fed exist to exercise monopoly power and enrich a few at the expense of the many.

Free Markets Promote Peaceful Cooperation and Racial...

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2025/04/03

By their nature, free markets promote harmony between people and increase overall standards of living. This view is radically different from the ones promoted by Marxists who believe that only “class interests” matter.

The Problem with International Organizations like the...

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2025/04/03

Organizations like the European Union and the United Nations are inventions of government elites and are designed to serve the interests of government elites. They centralize political power and do nothing to advance peace or freedom.

NEW COURSE: Lessons For The Young Economist

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2025/04/03

We’ve just released the first two video lectures in Jonathan Newman’s new online course based on Dr. Murphy’s Lessons For the Young Economist, on our recently refurbished Mises Academy platform.

Empire as the Price of Bureaucracy

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2025/04/03

Totalitarian bureaucracy necessitates a constant state of crisis and there is no better creator of crises than imperial machinations.

Startup Success Isn’t a Formula; It’s an Emergent Order

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2025/04/03

The greatest innovations don’t emerge from a checklist; they arise from an obsession with understanding something that others overlook.

Trump's "Liberation Day" Tariffs Are a Mistake

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2025/04/02

President Trump has declared today “Liberation Day,” because many of his tariffs come into force. His team is taking a gamble that either the law of supply and demand does not apply to trade or that the American public will be uncharacteristically fine with higher prices.

Inflation as a Centralizing Force

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2025/04/02

While monetary authorities and the government claim that they are “fighting inflation,” the truth is that inflation is an important tool for political and economic elites who are centralizing political life.

Trump’s “Liberation Day” Tariffs are a Mistake

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2025/04/02

What Economists Do and Why They Do It

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2025/04/02

What should economists do, and are we doing it? Economists should focus on markets, not resource allocation.

The Contested Meaning of the Constitution

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2025/04/01

While many people have declared the US Constitution to be “crystal clear” on issues of governance, the truth is that much of what the Constitution says is disputed. The first step toward more consensus is understanding that the Constitution is interpreted by fallible people.

If Only FTX Could Use the Fed’s Accounting

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2025/04/01

What happens to businesses when liabilities exceed assets? They go bankrupt, with the spectacular failure of FTX being front-and-center. However, the Federal Reserve is in the same position but unlike FTX, the Fed can create fictitious assets and pretend that nothing is happening.

Who Owns the Gold?

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2025/04/01

With people calling for an audit of the US gold stores at Fort Knox, perhaps we should remember how that gold got there in the first place. Franklin Roosevelt‘s theft of gold from the American people is a crime that still needs to be rectified.

McMaken Talks Gold Reserves on the 'World Affairs in...

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2025/04/01

Federal Spending in 2025 Is on Track to be the...

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2025/04/01

For the first five months of the 2025 fiscal year, federal spending is coming in at the highest level ever. This is true even when we adjust for CPI inflation.

Warren Buffett Gets It Wrong

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2025/03/31

Warren Buffett is well-known for his investment acumen, and he often makes public statements in favor of capitalism. But his loyalty to the fiat monetary system undermines everything else that he claims to represent.

First They Came for the Op-Ed Writers

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2025/03/31

The Trump administration continues its assault on the First Amendment and the rights of dissenters. The latest casualty is a Turkish graduate student at Tufts University who was arrested by US authorities because she wrote an op-ed in the student newspaper critical of Israel.

Do Inflationary Expectations Cause General Increases...

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2025/03/31

Economists like to claim that expectations of more inflation lead to, well, more inflation. Such beliefs ignore the fact that inflation is an increase in the money supply and that general price increases result from fractional reserve-created monetary expansion.

Britain—Like France and Spain—Is Poorer than Mississippi

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2025/03/31

Is Britain poorer than Mississippi? Taking into account welfare benefits and taxes, the answer appears to be yes, and it's yes for many other European countries as well.

How to End Drug Violence

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2025/03/31

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