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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

Even the Inventor of GDP Statistics Knew Government...

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2025/03/30

Patrick Newman joins Bob to discuss Simon Kuznets’ role in developing GNP and GDP metrics and Kuznets’ concerns over how government spending is accounted for in economic statistics.

Free Trade with All Nations

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2025/03/29

Richard Cobden was a British champion of laissez-faire who served in Parliament. While there, he led to successful campaign to repeal the Corn Laws, which led to British free trade.

The Saint-Simonians in Our Midst: Ben Bernanke and...

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2025/03/29

While Ben Bernanke has accused free market and sound money advocates of pursuing “discredited” systems, he and his lieutenants were following a truly discredited way of thinking: socialism. The man who supposedly “saved the world” actually destabilized it.

Free Trade in the Twenty-First Century

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2025/03/29

International trade is the topic du jour. Mark Thornton shares his recent presentation on a timely and important book featuring many of your favorite authors.

Skin Tone Products, Markets, and “White Privilege”

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2025/03/28

Lack of products that precisely match skin tones are often said to be evidence of “white privilege,” yet the market division of labor provides the basis for very specific goods and services.

Foreign Aid, Reparations, And Economic Growth

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2025/03/28

Western elites repeatedly call for “reparations” payments to former Western colonies ostensibly to lift them from poverty. By turning these countries into large welfare recipients, these elites perpetuate the very poverty they claim to decry.

The Struggle for Liberty

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2025/03/28

This week, David Gordon draws insights from The Struggle for Liberty: A Libertarian History of Political Thought—a new Mises book that adapts Raico‘s lecture series into a footnoted, annotated volume.

Economic Illiteracy Handicaps Britain’s New Right...

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2025/03/27

Britain‘s new populist party, Reform UK, has done well in the polls but is embarking on head-scratching proposals to deal with energy issues. Instead of pushing market reforms, RUK is proposing a mix of subsidies, taxes, and prohibition to respond to high energy prices.

Herbert Hoover, Enemy of Free Markets

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2025/03/27

An enduring myth among American historians is that President Hoover‘s response to the Depression was to let the free market work. This is totally false.

What Made Europe Different

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2025/03/27

The first thing to say about laissez-faire liberalism is that it arose in Europe, specifically in Western Christendom. This story goes back many centuries. It goes back into the Middle Ages.

4 Lessons We Learned from the Covid Panic of 2020

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2025/03/27

It's been five years since the covid lockdowns of 2020. Ryan and Tho take a look at the lessons we learned about the regime, medical staff, and libertarians during one of history's biggest abuses of state power.

Karl Marx’s Missing Link: Erasing the Line Between...

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2025/03/27

By omitting mercantilism, Marx could attribute its exploitative practices—particularly colonialism—directly to capitalism, reinforcing his ideological critique.

Libertarian Literary and Media Criticism

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2025/03/26

This collection of essays by experts in diverse fields applies libertarian philosophy and free-market economic theory to literature and media.

What Might Austerity Look Like in 21st-Century America?

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2025/03/26

Is “austerity” in the future for the US Government? Awash in debt and facing economic crises, the government may have to go on a diet, something neither Congress nor the president want to do.

The Far-Left’s Violent Attacks on Tesla are Revealing

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2025/03/26

The leftists destroying and defacing Teslas to protest Elon Musk’s foray into American politics provide the latest example of the American far-left being easily co-opted into playing directly into the hands of the political establishment.

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