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Was the American Revolution Radical?

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2025/07/03

The American Revolution wasn’t a polite disagreement with Britain. It was a people-powered upheaval that shattered empires, inspired global revolutions, and rewrote the rules of liberty.Original article: https://mises.org/articles-interest/was-american-revolution-radical

Republicans and Big Government

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2025/07/02

Contrary to popular myth, every Republican president since and including Herbert Hoover has increased the federal government's size, scope, or power. Over the last one hundred years, of the five presidents who presided over the largest domestic spending increases, four were Republicans.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-daily/republicans-and-big-government

A Big Beautiful Bill for the Military-Industrial Complex

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2025/07/02

The Republican insistence on increasing military spending is the main reason Congress cannot cut taxes without increasing the debt, making cuts in domestic welfare programs, or both.Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/big-beautiful-bill-military-industrial-complex

Trump’s Strike Against Iran: Weapons of Mass Overreach

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2025/07/02

Another president, another “strike for peace.” Trump’s assault on Iran wasn’t about safety. It was another step in the long tradition of unchecked executive power and endless war waged without consent.Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/trumps-strike-against-iran-weapons-mass-overreach

A Free Market Would Preclude Today’s Headlines

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2025/07/02

Our media, higher education, and, of course, governments tell us that our social and economic problems are due to capitalism. Yet, what we see are governments bringing us inflation, chaos, and the horror of war. It's time we abandon the fiction that governments "serve the people."Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/free-market-would-preclude-todays-headlines

The Economics of Nuclear Weapons

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2025/07/01

The fact remains that the strategic value of nuclear arms lies almost totally on the side of defense.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/economics-nuclear-weapons

Methodological Individualism in Historical Analysis

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2025/07/01

To better understand history, we must understand how people thought and acted in the context of their times and the prevailing worldviews of that era. Unfortunately, modern historians insist on looking at US History from modern collectivists viewpoints.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/methodological-individualism-historical-analysis

Silent Cal Had a Lot to Say

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2025/07/01

His policies took more than a million people off the income tax rolls, and 98 percent of Americans paid no income tax at the end of his term. As a result, America prospered under Coolidge. Real economic growth averaged 7 percent per year while he was in office.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/silent-cal-had-lot-say

Critics of Capitalism Misunderstand Economic Success

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2025/07/01

In a free society, legitimate economic success does not fall from the sky or come by force. Behind every fortune lies effort, risk, savings, time, discovery, validation, and social coordination.Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/critics-capitalism-misunderstand-economic-success

How Government Ruins 4th of July Travel

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2025/07/01

If we were to claim independence from the modern-day royalty of the beltway, the markets will ensure better holidays in the future.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/how-government-ruins-4th-july-travel

Unemployment Claims Reach the Highest Since 2018 (Ex...

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2025/07/01

With the exception of the "covid panic" and the mandated lockdowns, etc., last week was the highest total for ongoing unemployment claims since early 2018:Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/unemployment-claims-reach-highest-2018-ex-covid

The Young Rothbard: An Uncomfortable Neoclassical...

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2025/07/01

Speaking at the recent Rothbard Graduate Seminar, Dr. Joseph Salerno traces Murray Rothbard‘s intellectual development while in the economics Ph.D. program at Columbia University. Rothbard was dissatisfied with the popular schools of thought until he discovered Austrian economics.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/young-rothbard-uncomfortable-neoclassical-economist

SCOTUS Strikes a Blow against Public School...

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2025/07/01

The Supreme Court has told Maryland parents their children do not have to sit through militant LGBTQ+ indoctrination classes, violating their religious values. Previous courts had forbidden parents from “opting out” of such sessions. This is a blow against government tyranny.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/scotus-strikes-blow-against-public-school-indoctrination-young-children

Why Recessions Are Not about Declining GDP

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2025/06/30

A recession is defined by negative economic activity over several months with an accompanying decline in GDP. However, given the actual makeup of GDP, it is inaccurate to directly tie recessions to GDP at all.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-recessions-are-not-about-declining-gdp

The Entrepreneur and the Summer Blockbuster

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2025/06/30

This summer, Hollywood is celebrating the 50th anniversary of its summer blockbuster “Jaws.” The making of such films provides a good analysis of how entrepreneurs operate in a world of uncertainty. Austrian economists are best able to understand how this process works.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/entrepreneur-and-summer-blockbuster

Mexico’s Energy Sector Goes Backward

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2025/06/30

The government argues that restoring state control protects Mexico’s resources from foreign exploitation and ensures that profits benefit Mexican citizens. However, removing competition and transparency lead to inefficiencies, increased costs, and an unreliable energy supply.Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/mexicos-energy-sector-goes-backward

Two Sixties Rock Songs That Celebrate Capitalism’s...

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2025/06/30

For millennia prior to the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, the vast majority of men, women, and children toiled from dusk to dawn and beyond just to keep body and soul together.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/two-sixties-rock-songs-celebrate-capitalisms-greatest-creation

Review of Greatness and Ruin by Ricardo Duchesne

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2025/06/29

Western Civilization has brought great advances in culture and economics, yet no one is more relentless in trying to destroy this civilization than western intellectuals. Ricardo Duchesne lays it out in his book, Greatness and Ruin.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/review-greatness-and-ruin-ricardo-duchesne

Political Moralizing about the History of Slavery

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2025/06/28

Historically, slavery has always been held together by violence, including slavery in the US. However, the actual history of slavery here is much more complex than what modern academics want to admit.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/political-moralizing-about-history-slavery

Fumes of a Failed System: Bolivia’s Gasoline Crisis

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2025/06/27

Bolivians are finding out the hard way that socialist energy means price controls, and price controls mean fuel shortages and long gas station lines. Socialism excels in unkept promises and Bolivia is no exception to that rule.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/fumes-failed-system-bolivias-gasoline-crisis

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