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Back to SearchIs Deflation Bad for the Economy?
The standard line among most economists is that deflation is as bad or even worse than inflation. In reality, the economy needs deflation now more th…
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Why Socialism Fails: From Mises's 1920 Article to Today
Episode 550
Bob sits down with Dr. Jonathan Newman to discuss his Mises Academy course for homeschooling families based on Lessons for the Young Economist, using…
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Price Inflation Accelerates as Wars and Deficits Expand
Last week’s CPI report, and this week’s PPI report both showed price inflation surging to multi-year highs, and not just on oil prices.
Original artic…
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When a Society Chooses Freedom in an Unfree World
What might be the process of a society moving from being unfree to being free? Here is one scenario.
Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/wh…
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The Bad News from the Latest Employment Report
Ryan McMaken looks at the latest jobs numbers form the federal government and why so many workers and families appear to think the economy is in trou…
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Rothbard on War, Peace, and the State
Episode 275
Ryan McMaken takes a look at Rothbard's seminal 1963 essay "War, Peace, and the State." We find that Rothbard was no pacifist, but supported defensiv…
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Predicting Recession
Episode 170
On the latest episode of Minor Issues, Mark Thornton opens with a candid assessment of his own prediction record: what he got right, what he got wron…
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Why Rothbard Is as Relevant as Ever
Murray Rothbard is one of the all-time greats in Austrian economics and libertarianism. When studying his achievements, we immediately see that Rothb…
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The GOP Fiscal Follies
While Republicans have promised robust economic growth to accompany their tax cuts, reality has been different. That is because Republicans increased…
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Hobbes’s Self-Defeating Theory
With some simple logic and using Hobbes’s own presuppositions and arguments, we can internally critique Hobbes’s argument for the state, namely, that…
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