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Wednesday, February 19, 2025
 
 
Class Warfare: The Exploitation of Taxpayers by Federal Workers
Ryan McMaken
The real class conflict is not between the capitalists and the workers. The real conflict is between the productive taxpayer class, and the parasite government class which exploits everyone else.
 
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Trump’s Revival of Lincoln’s “Colonization” Plan
Thomas J. DiLorenzo
Both Trump and Lincoln treat a group of people as lepers—i.e., Palestinians and blacks—who should be removed from society and denied property rights in their own country.
 
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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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Grove City’s Mises Archives Now Available Online
Our friends at Grove City College have accomplished an incredible feat, digitizing their archive of Ludwig von Mises’s personal papers. Access this incredible resource and read more about Mises in his own words!
 
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Can We Really Cut Half of the Military Budget? You Bet!
The wailing sound you heard last Thursday was the chorus of the Beltway warmongers shrieking in despair at President Trump’s suggestion that there was no reason for the US to be spending one trillion dollars on “defense.”
 
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Trade War with China Threatens America’s Bubble Economy
Donald Trump’s coming trade war with China could ultimately topple the current US economic regime of monetary inflation which enables America’s bubble-monopolist capitalism. The is unlikely to be direct or smooth. 
 
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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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