Mises Institute
Saturday, January 17, 2026
Here at the Mises Institute, one of our mottos is “we study economics so we know how they’re ripping us off.” Given that we’re often told greed causes inflation, it’s safe to say that conventional economics “knowledge” isn’t great. This is especially true in understanding home prices ([link removed]) .
Also, in case you missed them, check out the top articles for the week (Or see the week’s archive ([link removed]) ):
* Environmentalism is Anti-Humanism ([link removed])
* Cutting Interest Rates Isn’t a Cure‑All for the Economy ([link removed])
* The UK Is in Economic and Social Freefall ([link removed])
Ryan McMaken, Editor-in-Chief
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Why Have Homes Become So Unaffordable?
Cole Adams
Housing prices in the US are officially off the charts. But why is that the case, as it wasn’t that long ago that homes were affordable. Like all other economic crises, this one has its roots in government policies.
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Keynes’s Intellectual Dishonesty and Chartalism
Joshua Mawhorter
A. Mitchell Innes—a chartalist pioneer—wrote a pamphlet “What Is Money?” (1913) which found a credulous and ideologically sympathetic audience in J. M. Keynes.
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Environmentalism is Anti-Humanism
Anti-impact environmentalists want you dead; they will settle, in the short term, for you to feel guilty for existing, producing and consuming, and willing to comply with any degree of central planning and freedom curtailment to “save the planet” from you.
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Cutting Interest Rates Isn’t a Cure‑All for the Economy
The Fed is cutting its discount rate again, but Americans will be disappointed with the results, as the Fed’s latest action only contributes to the boom-and-bust cycle.
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Fiat Currency, Monetary Corruption, and the Architecture of Extraction
Each economic crisis brought on by loose money brings on a “solution” of...looser money. This pattern is not just a threat to the economy but to our very freedom itself.
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Dr. Peter Klein on International Law and “Might Makes Right”
Dr. Peter Klein and Bob Murphy discusses the recent US operation in Venezuela and the social media backlash against “international law.”
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A Closer Look
at John C. Calhoun
Ryan McMaken and Patrick Newman take a balanced look at Calhoun’s origins, and why he was never a true Jeffersonian.
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Revenge of the Skyscraper Curse
With a record-height tower and a flooded credit system: 2026 may be when the curse returns.
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The United States v. Jerome Powell
Tho, Ryan, and Connor discuss the probe into Fed Chair Jerome Powell.
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The Misesian
The latest issue of The Misesian discusses why, without private property, there is no way to plan for the future, and one’s goods are always subject to confiscation from the more powerful. In other words, a world without private property is a lawless world.
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