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Now is the time to admit that easy-money policy and corporate bailouts—imposed in the name of increasing homeownership—has only made housing more unaffordable.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/homeownership-rate-lower-now-it-was-45-years-ago

President Trump cracked down on the latest version of the LA riots by calling in the National Guard. However, much of the violence that accompanied those riots came courtesy of government actors.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/riots-are-symptom-statist-disease

Don‘t kid ourselves. The federal government is hurtling toward disaster with its destructive activities underwritten by the Federal Reserve System. It‘s best that we know how to protect ourselves from the consequences.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/political-machine-rolls-regardless

Twentieth and twenty-first century monetary history shows us how our government, step-by-step, removed the monetary gold standard and introduced their fiat paper currency dollar to fund their increasing political power.

Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/what-if-we-were-gold-standard

A central belief of collectivists is that people think collectively, too. Whether one is a member of a class, religious group, or ethnic group, collectivism holds that each group has distinct interests that determine how individuals in the group think. Mises would have disagreed.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/mythology-methodological-collectivism

This week, Bob talks with economist and Mises Institute research fellow, David Howden, co-editor of The Next Generation of Austrian Economics: Essays in Honor of Joe Salerno. They discuss key chapters from the book, highlighting significant contributions from up-and-coming Austrian economists in areas such as monopoly pricing, international economics, and monetary theory. 

• The Next Generation of Austrian Economics: Essays in Honor of Joseph T. Salerno: Mises.org/HAP507a
• David Gordon's Review of the Book in The Austrian: Mises.org/HAP507b

The Mises Institute is giving away 100,000 copies of Murray Rothbard’s, What Has Government Done to Our Money? Get your free copy at Mises.org/HAPodFree

Although President Trump has claimed that tariffs will ultimately raise our standard of living, they really are taxes on consumers. Furthermore, tariffs also deny consumers the choices they want to make.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/tariffs-destroy-consumer-choice

Monetarists have long believed that the Fed should pursue policies of low inflation in order to counter the effects of lower prices through enhanced productivity. Thus, they reason, overall prices will remain stable. Such policies actually promote economic instability.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/futility-price-stability-policies

Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/israels-nuclear-arsenal-controversial-reality

Mixed martial arts is a brutal, imperfect, occasionally ugly sport. But it’s also one of the most honest epistemic systems we have when dealing with self-defense, and each individual has the right to defend himself against aggressors.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/rights-fights-and-economy-self-defense-why-mma-facilitates-right-self-defense