Mises Institute
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
 
 
What the Biden Health Coverup Reveals About the Political Class
Connor O’Keeffe
The reaction to Biden’s cancer announcement reveals how little trust the public has in the people who spent years claiming that Biden’s mental decline was fabricated by right-wing propagandists. That lack of trust is well deserved.
 
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Mercantilism in America: The Trouble with Self-Sufficiency
Kevin Duffy
President Trump has invoked the ancient fallacies of mercantilism in fashioning his protectionist trade policies. We will find that mercantilism is just as harmful today than it was hundreds of years ago when it first became Britain’s national policy.
 
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Roots of Marxism: Messianic Communism
 
Rothbard traces the strange, often shocking lineage of communism as a political religion.
 
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The Revisionist Economic History of the Civil War
 
Mark Thornton reveals how Confederate economic failures sealed their fate.
 
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The American Federal Government 21st Bankruptcy Show
Bankruptcy in the short term is painful. In the long term, it is cleansing decades of poor federal government choices. The uniparty is unaware that their lack of will to cut spending was one cause of the debt default.
 
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Adam Smith Cannot the Win Tariff War Without Capital

In a recent piece, Wall Street Journal editors announced that the Trump administration has lost its trade war against Adam Smith, but they overlook the importance of capital goods.

 
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MAHA is a Movement of Government Overreach
MAHA depends upon government overreach, which ultimately will undermine any good MAHA does, even though it is promoted as a government-led effort to eliminate health hazards in food and medicine.
 
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Freedom Doesn’t Come From Government
 
Ron Paul at the 2014 Mises Circle in Costa Mesa, California.
 
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The World at War
 
Ralph Raico offers a compelling, classical liberal perspective on the economic roots of twentieth-century conflict. Raico weaves together history and theory to illuminate the deeper causes of the world wars—insights that remain strikingly relevant in the context of ongoing debates over intervention and perpetual war.
 
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