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A Higher Minimum Wage Won’t Improve Life in Pennsylvania
Forcing the minimum wage above the real market wage causes more unemployment. Small businesses suffer from these mandates as do...
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Franco as a Case Study of Mises’s Claim That Fascism Saved European Civilization
It cannot be denied that Fascism and similar movements aiming at the establishment of dictatorships are full of the best...
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Monetary Inflation Won’t Create Economic Growth
When it comes to matters of money and banking, all practical political issues ultimately hinge on one central question: can...
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The American Revolutionaries Didn’t Need a Central Government. Neither Do We.
Rothbard on the American Revolution: "There was no particular need for the formal trappings and permanent investing of a centralized...
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Regulation in the Free Market: It’s Not What Most People Believe
When the idea of a totally free market is floated in economic discussion, a widely accepted critique of such an...
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Is Javier Milei Argentina’s Ron Paul Moment?
On this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop are joined by Mises Summer Fellow Manuel Garcia Gojon...
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FedNow Isn’t a CBDC, but It Is Dangerous
While FedNow seems benign, there is the larger problem of the entire banking system itself being built on a foundation of...
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China Enters the Doom Loop
China's authoritarian gerontocracy has built a Doom Loop with Chinese characteristics, with over half the economy now crashing. Chinese exports are...
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Is the Monopoly Board Game Like Real Markets?
It feels like a silly thing to say, but board games are not real life. Playing a few rounds of...
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Can Fractional Reserve Banking Survive the Twenty-First Century?
Banker and financial expert Caitlin Long believes that fractional reserve banking is closer than ever to collapse, and she has...
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