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Monday, January 6, 2025
 
 
The January 6 “Insurrection” that Wasn’t
Thomas Buckley
After the Capitol riots of January 6, 2021, it seemed that everyone learned a word they had never used before—insurrection. Yet, if that event was an insurrection, it was a very poor one. Typically, coup attempts do not wrap up in time for dinner.
 
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Interest Rates, Computational Boosts, and the Austrian Theory of the Business Cycle
Jorge Besada
One of the unique features of Austrian economics is a coherent and consistent theory of business cycles. To understand business cycles, one must understand the role that interest rates play in the economy.
 
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Why Smart People Are Rightly Confused About Tariffs
 
We’re told that tariffs are going to do all sorts of great things. Mark Thornton sets the record straight.
 
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Why Government Relief Spending Only Makes the Recession Worse
 
Bob walks through diagrams from Hayek’s famous LSE lectures.
 
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The New Hysteria: The Regime Pivots from Russians to Immigrants
The technocracy of total surveillance is coming. It will be wrapped in an American flag and proclaiming “America first.”
 
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How Child Labor Laws Violate the Rights of Minors
Everyone wants to protect children and what better way to do that than having labor laws that keep young children out of the workplace. But the benefits to children are not as cut-and-dried as labor law supporters would have us believe.
 
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Fiscal Federalism: No More Federal Funding of Local Government
Reality tells us that federal spending needs to be cut drastically, that means that local projects will need to be funded by states and localities, which means deficit spending is not an option.
 
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End the Fed
 
Presented by Ron Paul at “Our Enemy, Inflation,” the 2009 Mises Circle in Houston, Texas.
 
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How Inflation Destroys Civilization
 
Fiat inflation leaves a characteristic cultural and spiritual stain on human society. Guido Hülsmann takes a closer look at some aspects of this legacy.
 
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