Mises Institute
Saturday, October 11, 2025
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Public Enemies: Government Bureaucrats as Societal Parasites
Thomas J. DiLorenzo
Governments at all levels play the same game—always threatening to eliminate school buses, police departments, ambulances, garbage collection—whatever can succeed in getting the voters to approve more taxes and spending.
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Government’s Eternal Hunger for a Free Lunch
George Ford Smith
Through its coercive monopoly over money creation, government constantly engages in silent theft through inflation, all done in the name of “stimulating” the economy. Government, armed with fiat money, can bypass production and essentially claim the output of others.
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Schumpeter Explains the Origins of the Modern Tax State
In the West, the “tax states” we now live under are relatively modern institutions, and they developed from earlier non-state civil governments that were often not primarily funded by taxes.
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The Wheels of Government Cheese
By trying to protect dairy farmers and raise their incomes, the government created a massive cheese surplus, then gave it away, thus harming the farmers they were trying to support.
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Rothbard’s Preferred Pronouns
We are not the government, and the government is not us. This abstraction hides the truth, teaching people to equate the state with “society,” “the people,” “the common good,” or other euphemisms.
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The Importance of Time in Explaining Asset Bubbles
Debt, sticky wages, and intervention turn a necessary correction into prolonged pain.
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Does Economic Growth Require an Elastic Money Supply?
Ryan McMaken and Jonathan Newman explain why sound money scales.
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Monetary Metals 101: How Gold and Silver Work in a Free Market
Gold and silver make sense—until government “helps.”
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Peace in Gaza, Homicidal Text Messages, and the Future of Obamacare
Connor O’Keeffe, Tho Bishop, and Ryan McMaken look at this week’s headlines
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Hayek for the 21st Century—Our New 100,000 Book Giveaway
Hayek for the 21st Century is a primer for the layperson, introducing a new generation of readers to Hayek’s writings and hopefully avoiding the 20th century’s mistakes in the 21st century.
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