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Whether rates go up or down, neither outcome will be pleasant, leaving a bondholder caught between the Unthinkable and the Unimaginable.

Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/those-big-beautiful-bonds

Had the United States pursued a policy of economic freedom with respect to energy production over the last thirty years, the conditions for OPEC’s success as a cartel would never have been present in the first place.

Original article (September 18, 2001): https://mises.org/mises-daily/free-markets-would-be-opecs-undoing

We are told that it takes “eternal vigilance” to protect our freedom. But what if the entity taking away our freedom has the weapons and the “law” on its side?

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/problem-eternal-vigilance

We are reminded time and again that prices emerge from subjective valuation, not objective criteria.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/when-chicken-isnt-just-chicken

On this episode of Minor Issues, Mark Thornton shows what most economic commentary misses: the market’s intricate structure of production. Starting with a single oil-and-gas byproduct—sulfur—Mark traces how it becomes sulfuric acid, a foundational input for fertilizers, batteries, and especially metal mining. The lesson is practical: war and intervention can disrupt these unseen links, shrinking real incomes and quietly raising the cost of everything from food production to data centers, and even your next plumbing bill.

In the second part of the episode, Mark features his recent interview on The Julia La Roche Show.

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The anti-meat movement has influenced government policy well beyond anything close to the truth about meat. From the discredited food pyramid to government funding of “lab-grown meat,” government aids the activists who are making our lives worse.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/next-food-pyramid-lab-grown-meat-and-new-moral-orthodoxy

With President Trump demanding people in the armed forces as well as in other government offices do his bidding no matter what the law might be, it is time for people to learn the lesson of Captain Vere.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/god-bless-captain-vere-when-constitutional-duty-yields-institutional-power

Our own Jonathan Newman had the opportunity to sit down with a Federal Reserve governor. The central banker’s answers to Newman’s questions were evasive and riddled with contradictions. It seems there is not much behind the Fed’s technocratic veneer.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/look-behind-feds-curtains

The conservatives finally got their populist victory for middle-American working-class voters. The result is more federal spending, more federal power, and Israel-first foreign policy.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-trumps-populism-failed

Just as, for them, liberty must be the highest political end, peace must be the highest end of foreign policy.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-daily/libertarians-must-never-warm-warfare-state