Mises Institute
Saturday, August 24, 2024
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Markets Need a Lot More than a Rate Cut
Daniel Lacalle
Rate cuts do not signal a healthy economy but a slowing one, so equities slump despite the promise of a rate cut because investors continue to see lower buying pressure.
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Taxation in Brazil Has Become a Laughable Spectacle
Isaias Lobão
Government officials cannot stand to be mocked, but Brazil's finance minister and his tax plans have made the regime the target of a new wave of mockery.
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The Political Takeover of the Texas Electricity Market
Texas politicians have decided their political “wisdom” can replace a market pricing system in production and distribution of electricity. Failure looms.
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Do We Need 3% Inflation? Economic Growth and Deflation
Keynesian economists claim that the economy needs at least 2–3% inflation in order to avoid business cycles. But these inflation rates over time are economically ruinous and they actually harm economic growth.
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Inverted, Recessed, and Hung Out to Dry
The Fed for many years has manipulated the money supply in order to attempt to keep interest rates below market levels. At some point, however, the market prevails in one way or another.
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Featured Podcasts
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The High Cost of Kamala’s Price Controls
Ryan McMaken and Jonathan Newman look at what happens when governments try to control prices. It turns out bad things happen.
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The Classical Economists’ Theory of Value Was More Sophisticated than You Think
Bob Murphy on classical economists, utility, market value, and the Marginalist Revolution.
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Past Tense
Mark Thornton discusses homelessness, poverty, technology, and government in the 1995 Star Trek series Deep Space 9.
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3 Reasons for Hope
Lew Rockwell at the 2016 Mises Circle in Houston, Texas.
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Ludwig the Builder
An attractive way to introduce children to some implications of scarcity and how mismatches between entrepreneurial plans and available resources lead to economic disaster.
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