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Why <em>The Theory of Money and Credit</em> Is More Important Than Ever
Why <em>The Theory of Money and Credit</em> Is More Important Than Ever
Eighty years ago, Mises's The Theory of Money and Credit first appeared in English. It remains one of the most important... Read more
8 Nov 2014
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Rothbard on Self-Defense and War
Rothbard on Self-Defense and War
Libertarians — and Murray Rothbard in particular — are not pacifists, but reject the killing of innocents and other unju... Read more
14 Oct 2014
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The True Cost of the Homeownership Obsession
The True Cost of the Homeownership Obsession
The homeownership rate is now back where it was forty years ago. So what did all that federally-subsidized homebuying ov... Read more
16 Jan 2015
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The Savings and Loan Debacle: Twenty-Five Years Later
The Savings and Loan Debacle: Twenty-Five Years Later
Many still blame “deregulation” for the financial disaster that was caused by an intricate web of federal laws and regul... Read more
11 Aug 2014
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Do You Hate the State?
Do You Hate the State?
The abolitionist would blister his thumb pushing a button that would abolish the state immediately, writes Murray N. Rot... Read more
15 Jun 2011
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What Is the Rate of Return on the Louisiana Purchase?
What Is the Rate of Return on the Louisiana Purchase?
The true benefits of the Louisiana and Alaska Purchases are less clear than their value to pro-government propaganda, wr... Read more
11 Jul 2014
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The "Natural Interest Rate" Is Always Positive and Cannot Be Negative
The "Natural Interest Rate" Is Always Positive and Cannot Be Negative
We're now in the world of negative interest rates, and Mises’s insights about human action are the key to understanding ... Read more
9 Apr 2015
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How Inflation Helps Keep the Rich Up and the Poor Down
How Inflation Helps Keep the Rich Up and the Poor Down
Inflation puts a brake on social mobility: the rich stay rich (longer) and the poor stay poor (longer) than they would i... Read more
4 Jun 2014
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Markets Are About Much More Than Material Goods
Markets Are About Much More Than Material Goods
The affluence of free markets makes it possible to pursue goals few of us would have the means to pursue otherwise, writ... Read more
6 May 2014
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A Brief History of Progressivism
A Brief History of Progressivism
“Progressives” throughout history repeatedly show a fondness for social engineering and state control, writes Andrew Syr... Read more
5 Aug 2014
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Pioneers in Free-Market Literary Criticism
Pioneers in Free-Market Literary Criticism
Thanks to Henry Hazlitt, Paul Cantor and others, a body of work by free-market literary critics is now beginning to emer... Read more
27 Aug 2014
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Confusing Capitalism with Fractional Reserve Banking
Confusing Capitalism with Fractional Reserve Banking
Low interest rates combined with high-risk fractional reserve banking creates a powder keg on which we’re sitting today,... Read more
12 Aug 2014
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Prohibition vs. Private Solutions at the Electric Daisy Carnival
Prohibition vs. Private Solutions at the Electric Daisy Carnival
The ability to find cities to host their events lies largely on the ability to minimize drug-related problems, writes Jo... Read more
11 Jul 2011
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What Is Money?
What Is Money?
A man would die of hunger who, having decided that money is real wealth, should carry out the idea to the end, writes Fr... Read more
27 May 2011
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Vices Are Not Crimes
Vices Are Not Crimes
Spooner's anarchism was, like his abolitionism, another valuable part of his pietist legacy. For, here again, his pietis... Read more
16 Jul 2012
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The NCAA Racket
The NCAA Racket
The NCAA ensures there is no functioning job market for athletes and no competition to which students might go seeking h... Read more
15 Sep 2014
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William Graham Sumner and the Conquest of the United States by Spain
William Graham Sumner and the Conquest of the United States by Spain
The great sociologist William Graham Sumner explains how the imperialist wars result in the very opposite of their state... Read more
24 May 2011
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Ranked #18
World War I in Our Minds: A Historical View
World War I in Our Minds: A Historical View
With 100 years having passed since the start of the First World War, the view of the war among historians and the public... Read more
5 Nov 2014
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Ranked #19
The Unseen Costs of the Minimum Wage
The Unseen Costs of the Minimum Wage
Supporters of minimum wage hikes claim they have little or no effect on employment, the law of demand makes it clear the... Read more
15 Sep 2014
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