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January 23, 2021
Mises Institute

By Ryan McMaken

No, the Chinese Won't Invade America If Secessionists Succeed

If the United States breaks up into smaller pieces, how will the new nations be able to defend themselves from the likes of China? Thanks to geography and wealth, even smaller American states would be well protected from Asian and European powers.

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By David Gordon

Only Ideological Change Can Make the World a More Peaceful Place

Given that so much of the world is in the grip of false ideologies, what can we do? Mises says that the answer does not lie in international organizations or treaties. “It is futile to place confidence in treaties, conferences, and…bureaucratic outfits."

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By Robert Blumen

Is Gold Money?

A store of value is not necessarily a medium of exchange, and in our current fiat money system, gold is not money. But it has most of the desirable properties of money, and there is much to learn form the process of how it became money in the past.

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MISES WIRE AND
POWER & MARKET 


Trump's Potential Legacy: 50 Million+ Enemies of the State by Tho Bishop

Only Ideological Change Can Make the World a More Peaceful Place by David Gordon

Yet Another Study Shows—Yet Again—That Lockdowns Don't Work by Ryan McMaken

The Myths Behind the "Capitalism Is Racist" Claim by Lipton Matthews

"Victim-Centered" Justice Is a Threat to Due Process by Wendy McElroy

Halfway to Secession: Unity on Foreign Policy, Disunity on Domestic Policy by Ryan McMaken

What Biden/Harris Will Do by Jeff Deist

Biden Can Now Launch the Nukes and Unleash World War III Whenever He Feels Like It by Ryan McMaken

Time Preference, Interest Rates, and Stagflation by Frank Shostak

Why Governments Want More Centralization—and Less Federalism by Gary Galles

Unintended Consequences: Some Problems with National Income Accounting by David Howden

The Unwelcome Return of the Real Purveyors of Violence by Ron Paul

Let's Abolish Those Presidential Medals of Freedom by James Bovard

It's Time for a National Divorce by Mark Metz

A Welcome Attack on Churchill and Wilson by David Gordon
Beware the Troop-Withdrawal Bait and Switch by José Niño

When It Comes to National Defense, Bigger Isn't Always Better by Ryan McMaken

Why the Covid Shutdowns of Public Schools Are Driving So Many to Homeschooling by Joanna Miller
 


AUDIO MISES WIRE


Biden Can Now Launch the Nukes and Unleash World War III Whenever He Feels Like It

Why They Hate Trump So Deeply

What Biden/Harris Will Do

Snowden and Assange: There Is Still Time for Trump to Do the Right Thing

Why the Covid Shutdowns of Public Schools Are Driving So Many to Homeschooling

Beware the Troop-Withdrawal Bait and Switch

When It Comes to National Defense, Bigger Isn't Always Better

Inflation Breeds Even More Inflation

A World without Political Leaders?
 


THIS WEEK'S PODCASTS


The Economics for Business: Per Bylund: Silicon Valley Is Bad At Entrepreneurship.

A Neighbors Choice: Politics Is About Perception Not Facts
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