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The Perils of Lawfare

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2024/11/11

One sign of a fraying society is that its laws increasingly become political tools. The latest round involves Democrats trying to use criminal law in a very questionable way to try to put Donald Trump in prison, while Trump promises to retaliate if he is elected.

The Manifestation of Economic Laws Across Societies...

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2024/11/11

Contra Marx, the laws of economics are immutable and are the same no matter what historical epoch exists. Economies cannot flourish unless market prices, private property rights, and profits and losses are unhampered.

Who Killed Liberalism? Remembering the Walter...

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2024/11/11

With Europe moving toward conflict in 1938, a number of economists and other intellectuals met in Paris to try to revitalize liberalism. Ludwig von Mises also was there as a lonely voice defending laissez-faire and the free market economy.

The Betrayal of Free Speech: Elon Musk Buckles to...

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2024/11/11

Historical Revisionism: What It Is and What It Is Not

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2024/11/09

Historical revisionism is nothing new, and recent attempts to label an “antiracist” approach to history have wrongly been called “revisionist.” To better understand revisionism, one must first be grounded in reality, then apply reality-based thought to studying the past.

The Complex Legacy of George Orwell

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2024/11/09

While most of us know George Orwell as an authoritative critic of totalitarianism, few people know he was a committed socialist and a lifelong defender of communist Leon Trotsky. While he understood totalitarianism, he never understood socialism.

A View from The Top

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2024/11/09

Very difficult economic headwinds of the business cycle are coming right at us.

All States are Empires of Lies

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2024/11/09

Most economists are political apologists masquerading as economists. They are Rothbard’s “court historians” with degrees in economics instead of history.

Why Kamala Harris Lost the Election

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2024/11/09

While many are busy offering intellectually-deficient reasons as to why Kamala Harris lost—sexism, racism, Nazism, hatred of democracy—Lipton Matthews explains some simple truths as to why Harris lost.

QJAE: Common Fallacies in the 2023 Debt-Ceiling Debates

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2024/11/08

This article investigates the veracity of three claims made by current and former government officials in the context of the 2023 debt-ceiling debates.

Contrived Scarcity and Antitrust Lawsuits—“It’s Not a...

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2024/11/08

Birkin bags are pricey and the producer restricts its potential buyers. Unfortunately, disgruntled customers who don’t want to follow the company’s rules are now appealing to US antitrust law.

Congress Should Fire Jerome Powell

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2024/11/08

The Fed wants independence so it can serve the interests of the banker class. There is no higher principle here. There is only power.

Congress Should Fire Jerome Powell

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2024/11/08

Congress ought to at least teach Powell, the Fed, and its banker friends a few much-needed lessons.

Discrimination and Opportunities for Women

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2024/11/08

Wage differences between men and women often are automatically attributed to sex discrimination against women. However, as research has shown time and again, other factors are at work.

What Is Consent?

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2024/11/08

Buchanan and Tullock‘s The Calculus of Consent influentially applies economic ideas to politics, focusing on methodological individual. However, there are a few pitfalls about which readers should be aware.

QJAE: The Myth of the Price Premium

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2024/11/08

Is the price premium proposed by Irving Fisher an incoherent concept, as Rothbard argued? Hansen suggests a Mises-Rothbard premium based on the Cantillon effect to explain persistently low interest rates.

JLS: Libertarian Film Critics in the Late Twentieth...

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2024/11/08

Men like Murray Rothbard, John Hospers, and David Brudnoy are just a few of the libertarian names who aimed to bring film criticism to the readers of libertarian literature.

How Can Mining Asteroids in the Future Make Us Richer...

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2024/11/08

Bob explains how future inflow of extraterrestrial riches could boost the standard of living on Earth in the near term.

After Victory, Trump Faces Big Economic Problems

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2024/11/07

Ryan and Tho talk about what Donald Trump must do if he wants to actually fix our mounting economic problems of stagnation, debt, and inflation.

How the Government Created Exorbitant Insulin Prices

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2024/11/07

Progressives blame the free market for insulin prices and want to impose price controls. But, government regulation is to blame.

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