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America’s Problem with Consumerism Is the...

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2025/01/31

The child-like obsession with buying stuff that American society is often criticized for around Christmas is a sought-after result of our government’s monetary policy.

Mises Apprenticeship 2025

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2025/01/30

The Mises Apprenticeship is designed for those who want to engage in the battlefield of ideas from outside the constrained and stagnant ivory tower.

Imagination, Economics, and the Mythical Lighthouse

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2025/01/30

Imagination is a key aspect of abstract thinking and economics. However, many fallaciously assume that one‘s failure to imagine how something would work on a free market necessitates state provision. This is an unjustified leap in logic.

Tariffs Will Not Make America Great Again

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2025/01/30

Making it harder to do business with Americans is not the way to help domestic workers, small businesses, and everyone else in middle America who has already been getting ripped off under our current political system.

The State vs. Homeschoolers

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2025/01/30

Ryan McMaken and Heather Carson discuss how homeschooling is a way to resist and sabotage the many ways the state centralizes power and destroys private institutions.

Kenya and Nigeria: Hiking Taxes When There Is Nothing...

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2025/01/30

African nations such as Nigeria and Kenya desperately need market economies and freedom from the socialism and statism that infects the governing elite of that continent.

La-La Land, Once More

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2025/01/29

California politicians are in a state of denial as deadly wildfires burn out of control throughout the state, the latest being in Los Angeles. Their denialism in the face of real facts shows that California politically has become La-La Land.

How Austrian Economists Repeatedly Saved Civilization

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2025/01/29

When it seemed central Europe would succumb to the terrors of Bolshevism, Ludwig von Mises wrote his classic book, Socialism, convincing fellow Austrians that socialism was destructive. Mises influenced F.A. Hayek, whose The Road to Serfdom had similar effects in the US.

Tariffs Will Not Make America Great Again

Mises Institute ·

2025/01/29

Making it harder to do business with Americans is not the way to help domestic workers, small businesses, and everyone else in middle America who has been getting ripped off under our current political system.

The World Is Getting Rid of Birthright Citizenship

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2025/01/29

Europe has no countries that offer “birthright citizenship” anymore. The US and Canada are rare exceptions. Most countries that still have it are countries with net out-migration like Mexico.

William McKinley: Prostitute of Protectionism

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2025/01/29

Protectionist tariff taxes are nothing more than a price-fixing conspiracy orchestrated by the state that enriches a relatively small group of politically connected corporations.

James Lindsay and the “Woke Right”

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2025/01/29

Lindsay’s derangement is clearly on display when he compares the slogan “America is for Americans” with Black Lives Matter. This is dishonest analysis.

New Boss Is Nothing like the Old Boss

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2025/01/28

What a week! While the Trump administration has several issues for concern—the role of the Fed and tariffs, for example—there are some wins for liberty: Ross Ulbricht released, pardons for J6 offenders, declassified files, the TikTok ban postponed, exiting the Paris Climate accord and WHO.

Education: Where Liberty Is Winning Some Important...

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2025/01/28

Despite efforts by elites to promote state-sponsored education, people are revolting against the statist model. From private schools to home schooling and other alternatives, people have not forgotten that liberty and learning fit well together.

There Is No Such Thing as “Settled Law”

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2025/01/28

No matter how the court rules on birthright citizenship (or anything else), it certainly won’t be the “last word” on the matter, and nothing is decided beyond the short term.

TikTok Ban Makes US More Like China

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2025/01/28

The recent back-and-forth on banning TikTok because it‘s said to be a “Chinese company” risks the US ironically becoming even more like China.

What Happens in a Mixed Economy?

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2025/01/28

There is always the choice between the market principle and the hegemonic principle. There is no third way or middle ground between the two, often presented as a “mixed economy.”

The Myth of Long and Variable Lags

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2025/01/27

It‘s obvious that a new influx of money will not immediately bring about changes in enough prices to significantly alter a price index. Even so, there are immediate effects of the new money.

The Rise of “History by Theory”

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2025/01/27

How should we approach the study of history? An unfortunate trend has been to implement “history by theory” in which practitioners take theories and present them as facts. An honest approach is to take the historical facts and interpret them through coherent theories.

The Problem with "Birthright Citizenship"

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2025/01/27

In the 1870s and 1880s, and through the 1920s, it's clear that many legislators and judges did not agree that birthright citizenship applied to everyone born in the borders of the US. The modern interpretation is highly debatable.

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