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Back to SearchThe US Government Is Not the Daddy of US Oil Companies
Among the many rationalizations that the Trump administration is using to initiate massive force and violence against the Venezuelan people is that t…
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Questioning the Annexation of Texas as a US State
The annexation of Texas was a preview of future foreign policy.
Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/questioning-annexation-texas-us-state
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Trump’s National Insecurity Strategy
President Trump’s latest national security initiative is unlikely to make the US secure from outside danger. For that matter, Trump’s own internal po…
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The Statism of Donald Trump
From war to tariffs to inflation, it is clear Donald Trump is a devoted disciple of the ideology of statism and interventionism. The fact he's better…
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American Indians: Separating Truth from Fiction
Depending upon the narrative, American Indians were either noble creatures who were victims of a genocide by rapacious European settlers or were bloo…
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Silver’s Growing Pains
Episode 135
Mark Thornton kicks off 2026 with the new Minor Issues prediction contest (stocks vs. manure) and a hard look at the monetary-metals squeeze. Mark ex…
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The Panic of 1893: An Austrian View
From an Austrian perspective, the Panic of 1893 provides key lessons, but this consequential panic has not received as much direct attention as it de…
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The Illogic of Reparations: Historical Standards, Selective Memory, and the Logic of Victory
Demands for Americans to pay reparations to descendants of chattel slavery in America have been growing. The case for reparations, however, has alway…
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In the New Year, We Will Hear Even More Environmental Doom Because the Doomsday Industry Never Rests
A wearisome part of modern life is the incessant chants of “doomsday” from intellectual, academic, political, and media elites. That their six decade…
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Roger Farmer Gives a Tour of Macroeconomics
Episode 532
This week, Bob talks with macroeconomist Roger Farmer—who places himself “between Keynes and Hayek”—about how twentieth-century macroeconomics evolve…
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