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Rothbard: World War I as the Triumph of Progressive...

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2025/11/13

November 11 was once known as Armistice Day, the day set aside to celebrate the end of WWI. In this essay Rothbard discusses the war as the triumph of several Progressive intellectual strains from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/rothbard-world-war-i-triumph-progressive-intellectuals

Dystopia Misdiagnosed: How the Rich Drive Health...

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2025/11/07

The dystopian futuristic movie Elysium portrays a terrible future in which only the rich have medical care while the poor suffer on an overpopulated, polluted planet. The film’s theme—that only huge wealth transfers can bring medical care to low-income people—is fundamentally flawed.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/dystopia-misdiagnosed-how-rich-drive-health-innovation

Hobbes’s Accidental Case Against the State

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2025/11/07

If Hobbes is right about human nature, then he is wrong about the state as a solution. Ironically, his key argumentsfor the state are actually key reasons against it.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/hobbess-accidental-case-against-state

The Election of Mamdani: What It Means – And What It...

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2025/11/06

While giddy socialists are proclaiming that Zohran Mamdani's electoral victory is the beginning of a socialist takeover of the U.S., the Democratic Socialists of America have a long way before they can complete their stated mission.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/election-mamdani-what-it-means-and-what-it-doesnt-mean

By All Means, Elect Mamdani and Watch His Socialist...

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2025/10/30

Henry Hazlett wrote in Economics in One Lesson that each generation has to relearn economic fallacies that government employs when implementing bad policies. New Yorkers are about to learn a lot of new lessons.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/all-means-elect-mamdani-and-watch-his-socialist-laboratory-work

The Myth of the “Robber Barons”: James Hill versus...

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2025/10/24

As a true market entrepreneur, as opposed to a political entrepreneur, James J. Hill successfully built a transcontinental railroad, outcompeting his government-subsidized competitors.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/myth-robber-barons-james-hill-versus-crony-competitors

America Hurts Farmers and Discounts China's Soy...

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2025/10/23

Once again, the Trump administration’s “dealmaking” on international trade has blown up, this time pulling the rug from under US soybean farmers. This isn’t the first trade policy fiasco, nor will it be the last.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/america-hurts-farmers-and-discounts-chinas-soy-imports-while-providing-crutch-argentina

The Myth of Planned Obsolescence

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2025/10/23

The concept of “planned obsolescence” makes no economic sense and is often an excuse for governments to harass and shake down innovative entrepreneurs. Much of so-called planned obsolescence is really entrepreneurship at work improving products for users and consumers.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/myth-planned-obsolescence

New Rothbard Letters Show His Early Opposition to...

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2025/10/22

“I see that you are preparing the groundwork for supporting Nixon,” Rothbard wrote Meyer. “Again, for shame! Is this what conservative principles are coming down to...?"Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/new-rothbard-letters-show-his-early-opposition-both-nixon-and-reagan

What Will the Next Gold Bust Look Like?

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2025/10/22

There have been four gold busts under the fiat dollar money regimes since the “freeing” of the gold price in March 1968.Will the current gold boom end in a similar bust?Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/what-will-next-gold-bust-look

Popular Media, Romanticism, and the Statist Insinuation

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2025/10/20

Popular views of capitalism and free markets are not shaped by the facts, but rather by anti-capitalist intellectuals and the media.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/popular-media-romanticism-and-statist-insinuation

Absolutism and the “Reason of State”: Rothbard on the...

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2025/10/02

The Renaissance period is seen as mostly positive by historians, but the sinister development of absolutism and the imperial state complicates the legacy of that time.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/absolutism-and-reason-state-rothbard-growth-statism

Charlie Kirk and the Sacred Totem of Civil Rights

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2025/09/17

One of the reasons Charlie Kirk was considered "divisive" was that he spoke out against the civil rights laws, which was interpreted as his supporting Jim Crow segregation. Yet, these laws did not increase liberty but rather imposed a new progressive vision on Americans.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/charlie-kirk-and-sacred-totem-civil-rights

Every Year is 1939 to the War Hawks

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2025/08/15

According to the neo-conservative war hawks, every so-called enemy is the Next Hitler and every year is 1939. The failure to seek new conflicts abroad is equated to the failure of Great Britain and France to stand up to Hitler before World War II broke out.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/every-year-1939-war-hawks

The Silent War for Latin America: How the Foro de São...

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2025/08/13

From seminary classrooms to Supreme Courts, a network redefined justice, democracy, and freedom in the name of social control. Many goals of the Foro de São Paulo, launched in 1990 by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Fidel Castro, sadly, are being realized.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/silent-war-latin-america-how-foro-de-sao-paulo-subverted-liberty-within

Inflation by Design: How Keynesian Dogma Undermines...

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2025/08/08

In most of the world, inflation is no longer an exception, it is the rule. Official inflation targets of 4 percent, 5 percent, or even 6 percent per year have become normalized.Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/inflation-design-how-keynesian-dogma-undermines-capitalism

The Last Day of Barter and Questions for the First...

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2025/08/08

In examining the Austrian Regression Theorem of Money, Joshua Mawhorter takes on the Chartalist/MMT claim that government gives money its value. The Chartalist/MMT advocates lack a necessary cause-and-effect mechanism to prove their claims.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/last-day-barter-and-questions-first-day-chartalism

Rothbard: The Constitution Was a Coup d'État

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2025/07/31

Rothbardtook the American Revolution to be mainly libertarian in its inspiration, but he contends that the libertarian impulses of the Revolution were betrayed by a centralizingcoupd’état.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/rothbard-constitution-was-coup-detat

Yes, Virginia, There IS a Deep State—and It Is Worse...

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2025/07/31

We like to think of the “deep state” as a conspiratorial entity. In reality, the term describes much of what the federal government does in broad daylight.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/yes-virginia-there-deep-state-and-it-worse-you-think

Human Reason as the Foundation of Civilization

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2025/07/26

Human reason, wrote Ludwig von Mises, is the basis for civilization itself. Western civilization, he said, was built upon economic progress that sprang from reason. However, he also warned that if the West abandoned sound economics, it would trigger its demise.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/human-reason-foundation-civilization

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