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May 29, 2021
Mises Institute

By Joseph T. Salerno

How Governments Killed the Gold Standard

The gold standard disappeared because governments destroyed it. Here's how it happened. Private-sector money is always an enemy of the state.

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By José Niño

America Still Loves the Warfare

The difficulty Trump encountered in trying to even slightly scale back American military schemes shows just how far Americans are from abandoning the idea that the United States is the indispensable nation entitled to fight wars always and everywhere.

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By Antony G. N. Flew

Enforced Equality or—Justice?

Expression "social justice" does appear to be employed by a great many people as almost synonymous with the word "equality." But if equality is the same thing as social justice, then social justice can't be justice at all.

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MISES WIRE AND
POWER & MARKET 


Robert Wenzel, RIP by David Gordon

More Evidence the American Economic "Recovery" Will Disappoint by Daniel Lacalle

There's No Conflict Between Profit and "Social Responsibility" by William L. Anderson

Forget Hemlines. Mom Jeans Are Now an Economic Indicator. by Doug French

Why Is the French Government Running Off Foreign Investors? by Ferghane Azihari

Why Economic Models Can't Provide a Realistic Picture of Human Behavior by Frank Shostak

How the Constitutional Convention Vastly Expanded the Powers of the President by Murray N. Rothbard

Why Cause-of-Death Stats Aren't As Reliable as the CDC Wants You to Think by Ryan McMaken

The Bogus January 6 Commission Poses a Real Threat to Freedom by James Bovard

Economic Cannibalism Will Not Save Mexico, or Any Other Country by Antón Chamberlin

China's New Pandemic: A Bond Default Crisis by Andrew Moran

Public Debt Got a Lot Worse from the Great Recession to the Great Lockdown by Daniel Fernández Méndez
What Igbo Culture Teaches Us about Capitalism by Lipton Matthews
 


AUDIO MISES WIRE


Let's Level the Playing Field between the Dollar and Competing Currencies

Does Bitcoin Use "Too Much" Electricity?

How Covid Put an End to Your Right to Due Process

The Real Estate Boom in Vegas Is More Frenzied Than Ever

Investors Won't Buy the "Transitory" Inflation Line

America's Corporate Thought Police
 


THIS WEEK'S PODCASTS


The Bob Murphy Show: "What Did Bob Learn?" Part 1 of 3

Per Bylund: The Austrian School of Economics: Past, Present, and Future

The Economics for Business Podcast: Peter Klein on Cronyism, Capitalism, and the Entrepreneurial Pathway
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