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New York City Subways: The Woes of Socialist Enterprises

Big GovernmentBureaucracy and RegulationSocialism

Blog09/01/2022Gregory Bresiger

New York City’s subways have become a nightmare, with rampant crime, delays, derailments, and poorly capitalized. This is a gift from "backdoor socialism."

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America's Secret Government by Proxy

Big GovernmentBureaucracy and RegulationStrategy

Blog09/01/2022Kelly Offield

While we often concentrate on government agents' antiliberty actions, it is easy to overlook the shadow government of private business firms and NGOs that do the government's bidding.

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Defining and Defending Freedom

Blog08/31/2022Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

The Mises Institute has worked for more than four decades to advance one purpose: the cause of economic freedom in academia and public life. The two comments on our work that I hear most often are: (1) you guys are doing a great job, and (2) it is not working.

On the first point, I can...

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The "Experts" Still Aren't Giving Up on Vaccine Mandates

Bureaucracy and Regulation

Blog08/31/2022Gilbert Berdine, MDRyan McMaken

"Given our current knowledge about COVID-19, the CDC can no longer justify a vaccine mandate at present based on protecting the public from unvaccinated people."

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Do We Want Real Tax Cuts? How About Cutting Government Spending?

KeynesTaxes and SpendingCapital and Interest Theory

Blog08/31/2022Frank Shostak

Keynesians claim that tax cuts are good because they help increase consumer spending. But here's why this doesn't matter.

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Review: The Politically Incorrect Guide to Economics

Free MarketsU.S. EconomyHistory of the Austrian School of Economics

Blog08/31/2022David Gordon

If you wish to get a better understanding of economics, don't follow the mainstream. Instead, read Thomas DiLorenzo's new book.

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Review: Progressive Conservatism: How Republicans Will Become America’s Natural Governing Party

Cronyism and CorporatismDemocracyU.S. History

Blog08/30/2022David Gordon

Like many modern "conservatives," F.H. Buckley believes that America's future is conservative governance with a helping of government intervention, tariffs, and regulation.