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To complain against the state’s actions, argues Hobbes, is to ultimately complain against yourself because you originally authorized the state through social contract and...
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The federal income tax is the crown jewel of a massive welfare-warfare state.
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Peter Klein traces the ideological transformation of the UC system from a world-class research institution to a cautionary tale of government-subsidized capture.
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California has been seen as the nation’s “Promised Land” for many years, but in the past 25 years, people have left due to high...
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Issues of homelessness and vagrancy in public spaces and on public transportation are made worse because government ownership of the property does not allow...
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If economics has its Unicorn, it would be the Giffen Good, the good that would seem to defy the Law of Demand. While economists...
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In memory of Roger Garrison, Bob walks through Garrison’s famous capital-based macroeconomics diagrams, showing how they translate the Mises-Hayek theory of the boom-bust cycle...
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Two interviews, two timelines: before and after the Middle East war. Mark Thornton explains what the conflict means for oil, inflation, and why gold...
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The Ludwig von Mises Memorial Lecture, sponsored by Yousif Almoayyed.
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Combining binary and triangular interventions, the state coercively taxes citizens to pay for its services, monopolizes certain services, and then is incentivized to engage...
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WSJ: “To broaden access to private markets, we should first restore public markets for small and medium-size companies so that all investors have an...
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Brandan Buck: From Venezuela to Iran, the president thinks he can avoid ‘the forever war trap’ but that i s exactly what we’re going...
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Thanks to massive government intervention, modern capitalism hardly reflects the free market economy built up by entrepreneurs. What matters now in the business world...