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Saturday, January 31, 2026
 
 

The welfare fraud found in Minnesota is hardly surprising. Nationwide, welfare programs have always been ripe for abuse, and scammers have long taken advantage. The answer is to cut spending and to not continue with the naïve hope that federal bureaucrats will somehow clean it all up. 

For much more, be sure and have a look at our full Mises Wire archive for all recent articles from the Mises Institute. If you missed any of the 15 new articles at Mises Wire this week, you can find them here. The most popular this week were:

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Fraud as Policy: The Incentives of the Modern Welfare State
Patrick Frise
Politicians and the media always express shock when they hear about the latest fraudulent schemes involving the welfare system. They shouldn’t be surprised, as nothing incentivizes fraud like the welfare state.
 
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Mises, Money, and Catallactics: The State “Theory” of Money Abandons Economics
Joshua Mawhorter
An acatallactic pseudo-theory of money, making historical claims, now finds it acceptable to also reject history.
 
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Gold Exports, Trade Deficits, and Tariffs

Bob Murphy parses gold-export data, tariff uncertainty, and trade deficits after gold.

 
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The Fed Does Nothing
Dr. Jonathan Newman joins Tho and Connor to discuss Jerome Powell’s favorite type of FOMC meeting: a boring one. 
 
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The Division of Labor
Division of labor builds civilization, and entrepreneurs and profit/loss make it work.
 
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