Mises Institute
Friday, January 9, 2026
Just as we need more secession so there is more competition among political jurisdictions, we also need more competition for money. If the dollar is so wonderful, then the regime won’t mind if other currencies are allowed to compete ([link removed]) on a level playing field.
Also, Bush quickly declared victory in the early days of the 8-year-long Iraq War, and now Trump seems to think that it’s “Mission Accomplished” even though no one knows what happens next ([link removed]) .
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The Fed, Gold, and Crypto: Freedom and Competing Currencies
Alex J. Pollock
To stay in power, governments have to keep spending money. They need to give money to their friends, to give money to their supporters, to carry out their various projects, and—most expensive of all—to have wars.
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There Are No Good Outcomes in Trump’s Latest Attempt at Regime Change in Venezuela
Connor O’Keeffe
The Trump administration wants Americans to believe that this latest intervention into Venezuela was a quick and definitive success. But, given enough time, there is essentially no way this can go well.
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There Are No Good Outcomes in Trump’s Latest Attempt at Regime Change in Venezuela
It guarantees blowback.
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Filibuster in Cuba,
Part 2
From courtroom drama to a doomed second invasion: Washington balks and Havana answers with firing squads.
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Time Stolen by the State: Why Infrastructure Fails under Chronic Interventionism
Infrastructure can be built under freedom because freedom disciplines action.
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Aristotle on Private Property and Money
Although Aristotle scorned moneymaking and was scarcely a partisan of laissez-faire, he set forth a trenchant argument in favor of private property.
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Hazlitt Against Keynes
Henry Hazlitt’s The Failure of the New Economics remains the best criticism of J.M. Keynes’s General Theory.
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The Real Reasons
the US Bombed Venezuela
All this talk about democracy, human rights, and noble causes is just cover for the exercise of raw power.
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The Misesian
The latest issue of The Misesian discusses why, without private property, there is no way to plan for the future, and one’s goods are always subject to confiscation from the more powerful. In other words, a world without private property is a lawless world.
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