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The Global Jobless Recovery

So far, the United States is leading Europe in employment improvement, but the full recovery is extremely far away.

No, We Don't Need a Government Post Office

Leonard Read has explained how so many Americans arrived at the clearly false notion that a government post office is necessary.

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A Poor Understanding of Monetary Theory Leads to Disastrous Government Policies

Blog8 hours agoPatrick Barron

Since government creates nothing itself, all interventions are nothing more than transfers of wealth for the benefit of some and the destruction of wealth for everyone else.

Nationalism and Secession

08/21/2020Mises WireHans-Hermann Hoppe

Secession increases ethnic, linguistic, religious, and cultural diversity, while in the course of centuries of centralization hundreds of distinct cultures were stamped out.

Man, Economy, and State: Money & Its Purchasing Power with Robert Murphy

08/21/2020Audio/VideoJeff DeistRobert P. Murphy

Dr. Robert Murphy joins Jeff Deist to breakdown Rothbard's exposition of money in an Austrian framework.

Mises and Rothbard on Democracy

Blog08/21/2020David Gordon

Is democracy a vehicle for the peaceful transfer of power out of the hands of an unpopular government? Are ballots a substitute for bullets?

How Slavery Reparations Turned into Just Another Welfare Program

Blog08/21/2020Ryan McMaken

Over time, the demand for reparations has evolved from a demand to compensate specific victims to became just another call for more funding from a national welfare state.

Why Ideas Dictate What We Think Is in Our Self-Interest

08/20/2020Mises Daily ArticlesLudwig von Mises

It is ideas that determine what people consider as their interests. Free men do not act in accordance with their interests. They act in accordance with what they believe furthers their interests.

How Government Roads Expand Police Power in America

Blog08/20/2020Tate Fegley

The case for the privatization of roads has much to recommend it if only in terms of how it would affect the power of the police to detain us, search us, and seize our property.

Podcasts

The Theory and Brief History of the U.S. Gold Standard

2 hours agoRobert P. Murphy

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Gold Prices Show There's a "Big Short" Going on in Official Currencies

7 hours agoThorsten Polleit

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Mark Thornton on the Economics of Slavery

08/21/2020Mark Thornton

States Clamor for More Federal Aid as State Budgets Shrink

08/21/2020James Talocka

The Fed Says It Fears "an Excessively Rapid Expansion of the Balance Sheet."

08/20/2020Robert Aro

The Covid Crisis Has Pushed Latin American Regimes back toward Authoritarianism

08/20/2020Nicolas Russo

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08/29/2020Orlando, Florida

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03/19/2021Auburn, Alabama

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06/06/2021Auburn, Alabama

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