Mises Institute
Monday, December 8, 2025
The dollar isn’t about to disappear, but it’s clear that fiat currencies are in trouble. ([link removed]) ([link removed]) Central banks have embarked on an unprecedented wave of gold purchases, and gold has overtaken the US dollar and euro as the main asset in central banks for the first time in 40 years.
By the way, is there anything that the Federal Reserve can’t make worse with monetary inflation? Not even college football ([link removed]) ([link removed]) is immune.
Ryan McMaken, Editor-in-Chief
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The Inevitable Decline of Developed Nations’ Fiat Money
Daniel Lacalle
We are living through a historical monetary change. The first nation to adopt sound money and fiscal policies will win. The rest will lose.
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The Lane Train (And the Rest of College Football Madness) Has Been Fueled by Easy Money
William L. Anderson & Tho Bishop
The Fed’s money printing creates bubbles everywhere. Now even college football is seeing its own easy-money-fueled malinvestments.
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The K-Shaped Economy
The “K-shape” isn’t a mystery. As Mark Thornton explains, it’s Cantillon effects from cheap money and Leviathan.
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John Mearsheimer and Europe’s Bleak Future
Ryan McMaken and Zachary Yost discuss the international relations scholar’s claim.
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Do WNBA Players Really Want to Be Paid What They Are Owed?
If one uses the discounted marginal revenue product as a guide, the answer to their demand would be “zero.”
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When Ulysses S. Grant Tried to Annex the Dominican Republic
President Grant’s efforts to annex Santo Domingo were, in part, a last gasp of earlier Republican efforts to send freed slaves off to “colonies” in Central America.
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America’s History of Self-Medicating: Opioids versus Alcohol
No drug czar is needed, and the DEA can go home as well. People will self-medicate one way or another, with the government’s blessing or without.
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The Government Is Lying About Inflation
Mises Institute Fellow Karl-Friedrich Israel appears on The Peter McCormack Show.
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The Misesian
In the latest issue of The Misesian, we give readers a sense of what happens at Mises University by featuring lectures and photos from the event, as well as testimonials from students.
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