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Monday, June 24, 2024
 
 
Who Needs the Fed?
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The Fed claims—always without evidence—that everything “would have been worse” without the Fed. Yet history has shown otherwise. This article appears as a full-page ad in The Wall Street Journal today, June 24, 2024, and was made possible by one of our generous donors.
 
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Private Property Comes from Scarcity, Not Law
Joakim Book
The socialist elites that dominate our institutions insist that private property is nothing more than a social construct held together by violence. As usual, they misunderstand that scarcity itself, which is the basis for economics, is also the basis for private property.
 
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The Oklahoma City Curse, Skyscraper Edition
 
Oklahoma City recently approved the construction of the Legends Tower at a record-setting height.
 
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Why the Scottish “Free Banking” Episode Doesn’t Justify Fractional Reserves
 
Bob Murphy continues his feud with George Selgin.
 
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Harry Frankfurt, Humbug, and the Battle against Wokery
Philosopher Harry Frankfurt definitely was not a product of modern academe, where wokeness and outright humbug rule. He understood that the equal-outcomes portion of DEI was neither possible nor desirable.
 
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The State Wants to Nationalize Second Mortgages. What Possibly Can Go Wrong?
As if the government has not done enough destruction in the housing market, there now is a scheme to have the government nationalize second mortgages.
 
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Garet Garrett on the American Empire
The Roman Empire never doubted that it was the defender of civilization. Americans have added freedom and democracy. Yet the more that may be added to it the more it is the same language still. A language of power.
 
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Federal Reserve: Handmaiden of Tyranny
 
Maxwell Newton presented this lecture at the Mises Institute's first conference in November 1983.
 
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Human Action: A Treatise on Economics, 75th Anniversary Edition
 
In celebration of Human Action’s 75th anniversary, the Mises Institute has published a magnificent leather-bound edition of Mises’s masterpiece with a new foreword by Joseph Salerno. Supplies are limited.
 
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