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Friday, August 28, 2026
 
 
The Destabilizing Stabilizers: Why Increasing Government Spending Prolongs a Recession
William L. Anderson
Keynesian theory says that the way to end a recession in which the economy is in a “liquidity trap” is for government to ramp up spending. Murray Rothbard demonstrated that this policy actually blocks an economic recovery.
 
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Three Reasons why the French Revolution Was So Different from the American Revolution
Ryan McMaken
In America, French-style violence was simply unnecessary for the revolutionaries to win. We will never know if the Americans might have resorted to greater violence in different circumstances.
 
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Profiting from Government Didn’t Begin with Trump
The establishment isn’t mad Trump uses state power for gain. It’s mad he makes the racket obvious.
 
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Dialectical Materialism

Ludwig von Mises dismantles Marx’s attempt to dress socialism in the language of inevitability.

 
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How the State Seized Control of Money

Ryan McMaken shows how seizing control of money was central to building the modern 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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