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19 NOV 2024 · Long before there was Alan Greenspan to turn the Federal Reserve into Casino Central, there was John Law, France's minister of finance.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/birth-irrational-exuberance
19 NOV 2024 · David Gordon takes another look at Thomas Nagel's Equality and Partiality. While he finds some of Nagel's arguments appealing, they still are inferior to Murray Rothbard's systematic interpretation of natural rights.Original article: https://mises.org/friday-philosophy/nagel-libertarianism-and-other-things
19 NOV 2024 · Had Republicans not vastly expanded federal criminal law during the infamous Wall Street prosecutions 40 years ago, lawfare would not have become such a potent political weapon.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/if-republicans-are-against-lawfare-they-shouldnt-have-unleashed-it
19 NOV 2024 · One of the important points made by Carl Menger in his 1871 Principles is that people ordinally rank their preferences, valuing some things more than others. While this seems to be a common-sense principle, it actually has important implications for economic theory.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-people-pay-higher-prices-some-goods-relative-others
19 NOV 2024 · There are numerous critics of the Austrian School of economics, but when their disparagements are closely examined, the so-called experts themselves are wrong. Austrians can do a better job of setting the record straight.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/answering-confused-critics-austrian-economics
19 NOV 2024 · In this review of Scott Horton's book, Enough Already, we see that the wars the US has waged for the past quarter century in the Middle East have been a disaster. Millions of deaths and a massive refugee crisis later, the unmistakable verdict is in.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/ten-lessons-us-foreign-policy-enough-already
19 NOV 2024 · Kamala Harris claims that she simply wants food prices to be lower. However, her de facto price fixing scheme would create food shortages and raise the real price of food. Of course, when that happens, Harris simply will blame capitalism.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/kamala-harriss-price-fixing-scheme-would-lead-food-shortages
11 NOV 2024 · A common belief among economists is that the central bank determines what interest rates should be. But is that accurate? Indeed, there is more to the story.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/does-central-bank-determine-interest-rates
11 NOV 2024 · While the US Constitution made the US a large free trade zone, prohibiting states from erecting trade barriers against each other, it also empowered the central government to erect tariffs on goods imported from outside the country. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/constitutions-negative-effects-free-trade
11 NOV 2024 · John Maynard Keynes is the best-known economist from the 20th Century, that not being a good thing. At least he was more famous for his success in promoting his views than for his lack of success as an investor. His failures were an extension of his lack of economic understanding.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/keynes-was-not-much-better-investing-he-was-understanding-economics
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