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The Federal Reserve’s fixation with “stable prices” has led to an unstable economy for the past century. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/fallacy-stable-prices

The movement toward liberty has roots in two eras, neither of which saw much liberty. One lineage comes from the Enlightenment while the other emanates from ancient philosophers.Original article...

Not even your Roomba vacuum cleaner is safe from state control. Time for the state to give up all economic controls across the board.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/state-coming-your-roomba

In America, French-style violence was simply unnecessary for the revolutionaries to win, and we will never know if the Americans might have resorted to greater violence in different circumstances. Original article...

California is looking to impose a new wealth tax to fleece the state's billionaires. While supporters of the tax claim it will raise more than $100 billion, if passed, it likely will crash in the same manner that wealth...

The modern way of dealing with criminal behavior has been mass incarceration, yet crime abounds. Murray Rothbard believed that restitution and other methods were superior to the present state-run system.Original...

As long as the explanation for human behavior seems logical and fits their worldview, people can carry on mistakenly believing that they can identify causal relations from studying group disparities.Original article...

Contained within Rothbard's multi-volume history of the American Revolution, Conceived in Liberty, is an extended argument against the dominant conservative narrative on the American Revolution and the French...

A common misconception about the French Revolution is that it was some sort of classical liberal or libertarian revolution.Original article...

After the death of Jason Arday, it is appropriate to examine the academic system in higher education and see why we should not expect it to change.Original article...

There is no doubt that Chinese firms have made many advances in AI technology, but how far they can go in the future still is an open question.Original article...

The rhetoric of independence allows the Treasury and the Fed to cooperate when convenient and deflect blame when something goes wrong.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/imaginary-world-fed-independence

Democrats learned the hard way that voters don’t like being told the economy is great when they’re struggling to afford everyday life. Now Republicans have chosen the same strategy.Original article...

Dinesh D’Souza—a self-proclaimed opponent of “revisionist history”—reinterprets the Declaration of Independence through anachronism and equivocation, reading modern concepts of nationhood and equality back into...

In spite of the GOP's feigned dismay over Morocco's weaponization of migrants against Spanish exclaves in North Africa, US policy supports Moroccan expansionism in the region. Original article...