Mises Institute
Thursday, August 27, 2026
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The Wealth Tax Revival Is Repeating a Failed Experiment
Lipton Matthews
California is looking to impose a new wealth tax to fleece the state's billionaires. While supporters of the tax claim it will raise more than $100 billion, if passed, it likely will crash in the same manner that wealth taxes in other countries like Sweden and Colombia have done.
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Profiting from Government Didn’t Begin with Trump
Connor O'Keeffe
Trump has made his family billions by courting foreign and corporate money and accepting extravagant gifts while in office. But he didn’t bring self-enrichment to Washington, he simply made it much harder to ignore.
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Fragmentation of the Movement
Mises watched the postwar libertarian revival splinter into rival camps, while Rothbard emerged as its future standard-bearer.
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The Importance of Teleology in Understanding Economic Inequality
Why do bad explanations survive so long? Because nothing corrects them.
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The Task of Political Philosophy
Rothbard rejects politics without ethics, calling for a natural-rights foundation for liberty, property, law, and the state.
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The Misesian
In this issue of The Misesian, we bring the focus back to the Americans who brought about what Murray Rothbard has called a truly libertarian revolution against the power of states and imperialism.
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