Mises Institute
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
 
 
The Fed, With No Earnings, Is Taking Us on a Magic Carpet Trip
Jane L. Johnson
The Fed is losing record amounts of money, but in the magical world of money-printing, it’s not a problem for the Fed. It’s just a problem for the taxpayers.
 
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Secession: Why Redrawing US State Borders Makes Politicians So Mad
Ryan McMaken
Some secessionists are talking about redrawing the Illinois-Indiana border. The fact that politicians so vehemently oppose this suggests it’s a good idea.
 
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The First World War
 
World War I was a turning point which vastly extended state power, and vastly destroyed social power.
 
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The Rhett Butler Effect
 
During the war, most goods desired in the South had to be imported, and luxury items became cheaper to import than necessities.
 
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Bidenflation Torpedoed Biden-Harris
High inflation spurred Donald Trump’s defeat of Kamala Harris last November. The economy was the top issue for most voters, and inflation was the top economic issue.
 
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Revisiting James Burnham
James Burnham’s The Managerial Revolution produced some important points about the relationship of government and business, but these were better fleshed out through Mises’s theory of bureaucracy.
 
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Pete Hegseth Should Fire a Lot of High Ranking Military Officers
The idea that high ranking military officers are “apolitical” is as absurd as the claim that the US Supreme Court is apolitical, or that the Federal Reserve System is apolitical.
 
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The Economics of the Police State
 
When the government spends, it is always in a kind of calculational darkness.
 
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The Misesian
 
The success of the American Revolution struck a heavy blow against the mercantilist system. But unfortunately, the wound was not mortal.
 
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