What is Money? Who Controls Money?
(Mises)—J. P. Morgan famously said this in his testimony before Congress in 1912: “Gold is money. Everything else is credit.” J. ...
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Are Free Market More Dangerous Than Regulated Markets?
(Mises)—As a frequent X/Twitter user, I follow a variety of accounts that touch on a number of niches: whether that ...
Don’t Let Your Adversaries Raise Your Children
(Mises)—Socialist Antonio Gramsci’s “long march through the institutions” describes the slow and gradual intellectual capture of a society through its ...
The Fed Prepares for a Bank Crisis While Telling Americans the Economy Is Strong
(Mises)—Last Thursday, Bloomberg reported that federal regulators are preparing a proposal to force US banks to utilize the Federal Reserve’s discount ...
Conservatives Shouldn’t Assume the Supreme Court Will Save Trump
(Mises)—This week’s decision by the Colorado Supreme Court to ban — for now — Donald Trump from the state’s presidential ...
The Fed Is Draining Our Economy Like Farmers Have Drained Their Aquifers
(Mises)—In an October column, Paul Krugman admonished people who are not all in on the Joe Biden economy and declared ...
Exposing Our Fed-Driven Bubble Economy
The Great Money Bubble: Protect Yourself from the Coming Inflation Storm, by David A. Stockman, Humanix Books, 2022; 229 pp. ...
Cut Through the Media Noise and Remember the Economic Priorities
(Mises)—Trying to keep up with economic news is exhausting. Tune into the financial news channels or scroll through any number ...
What the Technocrats Call “Economic Stability” Is Really Just Inflation
(Mises)—There’s a growing palpable sense of optimism among many economists and journalists that the United States economy is heading toward a ...
The Interest Rate Shock Will Blow Up the Government’s Ponzi Game
(Mises)—In the international fixed-income markets, interest rates are rising, and the decades-long trend of declining bond yields has undoubtedly been ...