Mises Institute
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
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Trump Must Cut Millions of Tax-Funded “Private” Jobs
Ryan McMaken
There are more federal grantees and contractors at NGOs and private firms than there are “official” federal workers. These faux “private“ jobs must be cut also.
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The Technocracy Movement and Howard Scott
Lukas Organ
The technocracy movement was an offshoot of progressivism, and adherents believed that science and technology were the keys to creating a new utopia. Not surprisingly, this “utopia” was anti-individual freedom.
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Mortgage Markets and Crony Capitalism
Ryan McMaken and Alex Pollock discuss how government corporations are fueling America’s housing affordability crisis.
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Interest on Money and its Causes
Interest rates on loans are connected with an individual’s time preference.
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Common Sense, Then and Now
In his inaugural address, President Donald Trump promised a “revolution of common sense.” However, one area of US government policy that has lacked “common sense” for more than a century is how this government deals with other nations.
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Statist Egalitarianism and Patriotism
Modern progressives believe that one can only be loyal to one’s nation by being loyal to the central government. Yet, American history shows that the “nation” is not the state but rather the community to which one belongs.
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Using Your Tax Dollars to Support Terrorists and Nazis
John Quincy Adams famously warned against the US going abroad in search of “monsters to destroy,” but while claiming to destroy monsters, the regime also creates and nourishes them.
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The Current State of World Affairs
“I think forces of freedom are going to win out.” —Murray N. Rothbard (1989)
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Planned Chaos
The title comes from Mises’s description of the reality of central planning and socialism. Rather than create an orderly society, the attempt to central plan has precisely the opposite effect. This important work includes the broadest and boldest attack on all forms of state control.
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