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Joined January 2008
A sympathetic case for the America First Committee and their opposition to America’s entry into World War II comes from a surprising source. | David Gordon https://t.co/YhnfLpDpHH
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A sympathetic case for the America First Committee and their opposition to America’s entry into World War II comes from a surprising source.
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It’s not surprising that Virginia’s federal bureaucrats seem to be key in electing a CIA agent who has pledged to boost federal spending and expand the power of the state. | @ryanmcmaken
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In my most recent Mises Wire column, I described how it is problematic that federal employees—and others who rely on federal tax dollars for their paychecks—are allowed to vote. After all, these are...
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"I come to bury Reaganomics, not to praise it." - Murray Rothbard https://t.co/7GCWd3Gs83
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Everyone seems to agree that Reagan slashed the size and scope of government. Murray N. Rothbard exposes the truth.
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Thank you Rep. Roberts!
With America’s largest city electing an openly socialist mayor, I want to introduce you all to Austrian Economics, a method of economic thinking that makes clear what we already know: the free market works, and government meddling just doesn’t work. As your state representative,
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If Hobbes is right about human nature, then he is wrong about the state as a solution. Ironically, his key arguments for the state are actually key reasons against it. | Joshua Mawhorter https://t.co/cRVjfK8lnn
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If Hobbes is right about human nature, then he is wrong about the state as a solution. Ironically, his key arguments for the state are actually key reasons against it.
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Election fallout meets wallet pain. @ThoBishop, @RyanMcMaken, and @ConnorMOKeeffe ask whether inflation is radicalizing our politics: driving voters to extremes while both parties dodge the policy causes.
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Additionally, delinquencies on debt are surging, and the median age of homeownership has risen to 40 while first-time buyer share falls to a historic low. | @ryanmcmaken
https://t.co/Evs0O7mMfr
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As Trump declares a “golden age,” private jobs decrease.
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If the voting taxpayers (those who actually pay the bills) are outnumbered or outcompeted by the tax receivers, then national bankruptcy is the most likely outcome. | @ryanmcmaken
https://t.co/LtzmXdhDwS
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If the voting taxpayers (those who actually pay the bills) are outnumbered or outcompeted by the tax receivers, then national bankruptcy is the most likely outcome.
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Good read with your coffee this morning from @ryanmcmaken: "This raises an important question: if a sizable portion of a person’s income comes from tax dollars, should that person be eligible to vote himself access to even more tax dollars? "Some think not. This woman, for
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The dystopian futuristic movie “Elysium” portrays a terrible future in which on the rich have medical care while the poor suffer on an overpopulated, polluted planet. The film’s theme is fundamentally flawed. | Daniel Sterbuleac https://t.co/QSqHMWvXCk
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The dystopian futuristic movie “Elysium” portrays a terrible future in which on the rich have medical care while the poor suffer on an overpopulated, polluted planet. The film’s theme—that only huge...
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While giddy socialists are proclaiming that Zohran Mamdani's electoral victory is the beginning of a socialist takeover of the U.S., the Democratic Socialists of America have a long way before they can complete their stated mission. | William L. Anderson https://t.co/AaI224bNlp
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While giddy socialists are proclaiming that Zohran Mamdani's electoral victory is the beginning of a socialist takeover of the U.S., the Democratic Socialists of America have a long way before they...
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"There Ain't No Such Thing as a Sticky Price" - my latest at the QJAE. Main idea: the Misesian plain state of rest (PSR), which occurs after every realized exchange, implies that markets always clear, which means that non-market-clearing sticky prices don't exist. 🧵
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Dr. Shawn Ritenour argues that state interventions pit citizen against citizen and fuel inequality, underscoring the need for real economic education of the kind fostered by the @Mises Institute.
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We don’t need government to grow the economy. @mises
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Much of mainstream economics holds to the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH), which is built on highly unrealistic foundations. The Austrian causal-realist approach has more explanatory power. | Laurent Hynes https://t.co/uTkrMgKltO
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Much of mainstream economics holds to the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH), which is built on highly unrealistic foundations. The Austrian causal-realist approach has more explanatory power.
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The justices that Trump appointed to the Supreme Court have shown intolerance for the kinds of semantic leaps his administration is relying on to justify its tariffs. Will they remain consistent or fall in line behind the president? | @ConnorMOKeeffe
https://t.co/WbxpsqaBHh
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The justices that Trump appointed to the Supreme Court have shown a recent intolerance for the kinds of semantic leaps his administration is relying on to justify its tariffs. Will they remain...
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While the political impact of Mamdanism is difficult to forecast, the history of the Mamdani family does serve as an interesting example of the consequences of state-directed immigration policy. | @ThoBishop
https://t.co/5vGoSjSr9E
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In an attempt to compete with the Soviet Union by bringing future elite political leaders from Africa to study in US universities, Sen. John Kennedy and the CIA inadvertently spread Marxism here and...
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As Murray Rothbard’s views on individual liberty progressed, he increasingly embraced men like Richard Weaver and John Randolph, who both stressed the importance of private property rights and political decentralization. | Frank Shostak https://t.co/fK9S6Zky2i
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As Murray Rothbard’s views on individual liberty progressed, he increasingly embraced men like Richard Weaver and John Randolph, who both stressed the importance of private property rights and...
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The “greedflation” commentators are at it again, claiming that corporate profits are driving inflation. That is a logical impossibility. | Frank Shostak https://t.co/yArWqyYWlh
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The “greedflation” commentators are at it again, claiming that corporate profits are driving inflation. That is a logical impossibility.
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