Free Markets are often criticized for producing ugly, dystopian, consumer-driven landscapes, but is this true? Jeff explains how we need more than intellectual appeal to advance the cause of liberty—we need an appeal to beauty. Watch other talks from our 40th Anniversary Celebration: Mises.org/SS2022  41 total […]

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While whispers of the current emerging market debt crisis, the result of the rapidly strengthening dollar, could be heard throughout the summer, virtually no one predicted the blow the dollar’s rise would deal to some other developed economies. But with the dollar reaching levels not […]

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Vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine are at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, Dec. 14, 2020, following the vaccine’s emergency use authorization by the Food and Drug Administration. (DoD photo by Lisa Ferdinando) WND is now on Trump’s Truth Social! Follow […]

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[Originally published by Law and Liberty.] The year 2022 has certainly been a tough one for the Federal Reserve. The Fed missed the emergence of the runaway inflation it helped create and continued for far too long to pump up the housing bubble and other asset […]

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WND is now on Trump’s Truth Social! Follow us @WNDNews Republican members of the U.S. House have announced that they want to protect children from sexually explicit books, lessons and programs. In an announcement, Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., said he and dozens of other Republicans […]

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WND is now on Trump’s Truth Social! Follow us @WNDNews By Laurel DugganDaily Caller News Foundation The Social Security Administration will allow people to self-select their sex on social security documents without providing legal or medical documents to verify their sex, according to a Wednesday […]

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For many commentators, a change in the shape of the differential between the long-term interest rate and the short-term interest rate—i.e., the yield spread provides an indication of the likely direction of the economy in the months ahead. Thus, an increase in the yield spread […]

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Such is the intellectual stature of Ludwig von Mises that even many decades after his passing the opponents of classical liberalism and laissez-faire capitalism continue to attack his life’s work. A recent instance of this phenomenon is an article published in Jacobin by Matt McManus, […]

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Media reports claim this debt prevents economic recovery. Chuck Schumer would erase it with the flick of a pen. Elizabeth Warren would remove it to free students’ ability to buy a house and form a family. Janet Yellen opines paying off student loan debt (SLD) […]

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The average square footage in new single-family houses has been declining since 2015. House sizes tend to fall just during recessionary periods. It happened from 2008 to 2009, from 2001 to 2002, and from 1990 to 1991. But even with strong economic-growth numbers well into […]

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British cardiologist Dr. Aseem Malhotra (Video screenshot) A top London cardiologist who was one of the first to take the COVID-19 vaccine and promote it on British television is warning his colleagues and the public he has evidence tying the incidences around the world of […]

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Quantitative easing was designed as a tool to provide time for governments to implement structural reforms, boost growth, and strengthen the economy. However, it has become a tool to increase the size of government and take increasingly riskier levels of debt. The United States economy […]

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In his book The Case against the Fed, Murray Rothbard writes a section on deposit insurance, which was instituted under FDR’s New Deal in 1933 at $2,500 per account and over time raised, reaching $250,000 during the banking crisis of 2008. As Rothbard explains, the […]

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(Image by Pexels from Pixabay) WND is now on Trump’s Truth Social! Follow us @WNDNews New York’s embattled governor, Kathy Hochul, is claiming God is on the abortion side of the war against the unborn that leftists are fighting now in America. And she’s being […]

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A Chinese fighter pilot gazes outside his cockpit. (Video screenshot) WND is now on Trump’s Truth Social! Follow us @WNDNews By Micaela BurrowDaily Caller News Foundation U.S. intelligence officials fail to appreciate the way China leverages the private sector to pilfer advanced U.S. military technology […]

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The Nobel Prize in economics for 2022 was awarded to Ben S. Bernanke, Douglas W. Diamond and Philip H. Dybvig for their research on the role of banks in economic growth and on how banks can set in motion a severe economic crisis. In this […]

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“The Earth speaks to us through the elements of nature. In every natural thing, we can find a hidden, powerful message.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson Every natural element with which the earth has been endowed has a usefulness—a purpose. If we listen to gold, its message is […]

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AS one of the most deadly cancers to affect women – chances are you know what ovarian cancer is. But can you name any of the symptoms? 1 There are around 4,100 ovarian cancer deaths in the UK every yearCredit: Getty According to charity Target […]

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[This article is adapted from the introduction to the Historical Revisionism panel at the 2022 Supporters Summit at the Arizona Biltmore.] In his novel 1984, George Orwell noted the role of the regime in controlling information about the past. After being “re-educated” by the ruling party, the […]

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Contact Thomas E. Woods, Jr. Tom Woods, a senior fellow of the Mises Institute, is the author of a dozen books, most recently Real Dissent: A Libertarian Sets Fire to the Index Card of Allowable Opinion. Tom’s articles have appeared in dozens of popular and […]

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