Mises Institute
Monday, November 25, 2024
 
 
Liberty Squandered: The English Tradition from Magna Carta to Empire
Vibhu Vikramaditya
Now threatening citizens for what they post online, one would hardly believe that England had once possessed a hard-won tradition of limited government and natural rights.
 
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Could an Increase in the Supply of Gold Cause a Boom-Bust Cycle?
Frank Shostak
Can an increase in the supply of gold cause a boom-bust cycle? Mises believed it was theoretically possible but highly unlikely. Rothbard, on the other hand, said as long as gold is money and there is no fiduciary media, such a scenario was not possible.
 
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Gold Is the Answer to Prohibition
 
The gold standard hampers the growth of government power, which helps people more effectively fight bad policy.
 
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Clarifying Economists’ Arguments About International Trade
 
Bob discusses common talking points that pro-free-trade economists often use when making the case against tariffs.
 
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Disparate Impact Is a Legal Trick
By misusing statistics, the government claims that racial disparities are always caused by racial discrimination and that these disparities can only be rectified by state-directed outcomes. However, government programs have made things much worse.
 
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Draper on War: When Is War Just?
This week, David Gordon guides us through the thoughts of Kai Draper in his book, War and Individual Rights. Dr. Gordon praises a great deal of Draper’s argumentation, but has some criticisms.
 
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Distress in Commercial Real Estate Bonds Hits All-Time High
Commercial real estate in the US faces major problems despite efforts by the Federal Reserve System to prop it up. Bonds used to finance commercial real estate markets are being hit especially hard, and there is no relief in sight.
 
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Proxy Wars
 
The Cold War ended in 1991, securing America’s global hegemony. But, proxy warfare continued.
 
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Liberty or Equality: The Challenge of Our Time
 
Sometime in the 18th century, the word equality gained ground as a political ideal, but the idea was always vague. In this treatise, Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn argues that it reduced to one simple and very dangerous idea: equality of political power as embodied in democracy.
 
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