Mises Institute
Tuesday, May 27, 2025
 
 
What Is the Rationale Behind Current US Tariff Policy?
Frank Shostak
The Trump administration has pursued a high tariff policy, reversing the movement to lower trade barriers around the world. The justification for this policy is the presence of trade deficits with other nations. However, what if US trade deficits don’t matter?
 
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Is Culture Degeneration Biological or Ideological?
Jeffrey L. Degner
Why do cultures degenerate? At the recent Natal Conference, Robin Hanson cites biological and evolutionary factors. However, if one looks to Mises and the Austrians, we look squarely at human action that begins with the human mind and purposeful action.
 
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The Politics of Guilt
 
From Reconstruction to George Floyd, the left’s guilt industry has run at full speed. It is time to stand up to those that use guilt as a social weapon.
 
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Acting Man
 
Ludwig von Mises reveals the fundamental principle at the core of economics and human life itself: we act consciously to achieve goals.
 
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How High Egg Prices May Resemble High OPEC Cartel Oil Prices
While no one is accusing egg producers of colluding or price-fixing, from an economic standpoint, it certainly could be happening either by design or incidentally.
 
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Remembering the Disastrous and Failed Iraq War
We must fight to ensure that the Iraq War and its supporters are never rehabilitated by historians or pundits. Nor should the war, its lies, and its crimes ever be forgotten.
 
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New Deal and Cold War: The Link of State Domination
One of the most brilliant and forceful attacks on Cold War foreign policy in the postwar era came from the pen of the veteran free-market publicist Garet Garrett, in “The Rise of Empire.”
 
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What the New Right Gets Right—and Wrong—About Free Trade
 
Is skepticism about free trade on the rise among conservatives?
 
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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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