Mises Institute
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
 
 
Devaluing the US Dollar: How to Make America Poorer Again
Daniel Lacalle
If devaluing the currency was a real measure of competitiveness, Argentina and Venezuela would be the most competitive nations on the planet.
 
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Will Trump End the Fed or Put Himself in Charge of It?
George Ford Smith
Trump’s recent assertions that the Fed should lower the discount rate puts him squarely in the middle of Fed politics and exposes the fact that the Fed is a tool of the political system.
 
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Keynes the Man:
Hero or Villain?
 
Murray Rothbard takes aim at the real John Maynard Keynes—his ideas, his influence, and the myth that surrounds him.
 
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The Jacksonian Revolution and the Defeat of the National Republicans
 
Patrick Newman explores how cronyism was briefly curtailed during the Age of Jackson.
 
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Both Consumers and Producers Pay for Tariffs along with Taxpayers
The beneficiaries of tariff increases are the government and a few companies that benefit from limited competition. Everyone else is worse off.
 
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The Federal Government Did Not Create the States
John C. Calhoun emphasized the principle that the states were sovereign and independent and not merely the creation of the federal government.
 
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Nineteenth Century Wisdom in the 21st Century: Bastiat on Tariffs and USAID
Bastiat’s 19th-century economic insights provide wisdom for today, especially when it comes to modern issues like tariffs and USAID funding.
 
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Cronyism in America
 
We live in a world of constant cronyism. Nothing seems to change, no matter the party or the people in power. Was it always like this? Can we learn from it?
 
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The Bastiat Collection
 
Claude Frédéric Bastiat was an economist and publicist of breathtaking intellectual energy and massive historical influence. The bulk of his remarkable writing career that so inspired the early generation of English translators—and so many more—is contained in this collection.
 
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