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Mark Thornton traces seven headline “problems” back to one engine: monetary inflation. Drawing on Austrian insights, Mark explains how new money distorts prices and wages; why cheap credit spawns debt booms, asset bubbles, and zombie firms; how deficit finance and central banking turn war into a budget line; and why ri
Is minarchism an antidote for the growing statism and socialism infecting our body politic? Think of it as “statism lite.” Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/minarchism-worst-kind-state-idolatry
Cheney was an architect of both Iraq wars, and he was a perennial supporter of the American surveillance state, torture, and more. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-i-wont-be-mourning-dick-cheney
The rent is too high. However, government interference into rental markets has been the main reason rents are so high in the first place. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/government-intervention-not-blackrock-blame-housing-crisis
Politicians in both parties are promising to address the affordability crisis. But neither is focusing on, or even discussing, the true causes. Here’s what they are and how to fix them. Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/how-actually-solve-affordability-crisis Be sure to follow the Guns and Butter podc
We must realize that the two most powerful motivations in human history have always been ideology and economic interest, and that a joining of these two motivations can be downright irresistible. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-daily/origins-welfare-state-america
