Mises Institute
Friday, February 21, 2025
 
 
External Revenue or Protectionism: A Tariff Can’t Be Both
Tate Fegley
Either tariffs raise revenue from foreign imports or make imports expensive enough to protect domestic producers, not both. There is nothing magical about tariffs. They are taxes and they are paid by you.
 
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No, Federal Contractors Are Not More Efficient than Federal Employees
Ryan McMaken
In terms of economics, there isn’t much daylight at all between a tax-funded “private” contractor and a federal employee who works directly for a government agency.
 
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Would DOGE Dividend Checks Stoke Inflation?
 
Is Elon Musk’s DOGE taxpayer dividend proposal inflationary?
 
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Trump Cannot Allow a Declining Europe to Drag the US Down
 
US taxpayers should not be forced to have any part of it.
 
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Investment is Best Left to Private Enterprise
As Mises and other Austrian economists have reminded us, government cannot “invest” profitably because it directs funds toward ventures that were not chosen by voluntary investors.
 
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How Tariffs Block Entrepreneurial Discovery and Stall Progress
Tariffs block the entrepreneurial discovery process that is essential for progress. Tariffs and protectionist policies are damaging in all respects.
 
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Elon Musk’s DOGE Sparks Chaos in Washington
Thus far, DOGE has introduced the American public to countless examples of wasteful spending. Unsurprisingly, the benefactors of the system see this as a great injustice.
 
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The Global Curse of the Federal Reserve
 
Brendan Brown on how the Fed’s monetary virus stimulates destructive waves of irrational exuberance and depression.
 
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Mises on Money
 
After reading this short work, you will have a firm understanding of Austrian monetary theory, and will be in prime condition to tackle Ludwig von Mises’s writings on the subject.
 
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