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Too Much Inflation? Just Raise the Inflation Target!
The new "2 percent average" standard from last year helped the inflationists, but there are now calls for scrapping the...
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Why Nazism Was Socialism and Why Socialism Is Totalitarian
My purpose today is to make just two main points: (1) To show why Nazi Germany was a socialist state,...
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The Institute Is 100 Percent Privately, Voluntarily Funded. Will You Contribute to Our Effort?
The best people in the world support the Mises Institute. Will you join them? Your gift will be matched today. Who...
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Can a Libertarian Work at a Public University?
A correspondent sent me an argument I hadn’t heard before that concludes that it’s not morally permissible for libertarians to...
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My Time with the FBI
The FBI’s power and federal legitimacy are far more tenuous than Washington recognizes. Beyond the nation’s big cities, federal authority...
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Rothbard’s History of Economic Thought from Greeks to Physiocrats
Was Adam Smith the founder of modern economics? Not so, says Murray Rothbard in his staggering two-volume An Austrian Perspective...
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The Debt Ceiling: An Affectionate History
Remember the movie Groundhog Day? The protagonist, played by Bill Murray, is stuck in a cycle where he relives the...
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How the “Respectable” Media Serves the Political Elite
[Editor's note: Two interviews from August 1992 given by Murray Rothbard to the Swedish student publication Svensk Linje (continuously published since 1942)...
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Join Us in the Battle of Ideas by Doubling Your Gift Today!
Double your gift today. Today, the ideas of Ludwig von Mises are as important as ever. During his career, he...
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Defaulting on the Debt Is the Moral Thing to Do
The US is in the midst of yet another “debate” over the debt ceiling. In the twenty-first century, this is...
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