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The Trump administration’s crackdown on students protesting against Israel has once again run into the law, this time in the form of a federal court ruling against the government.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/trump-censorship-machine-loses-again-court

The Federal Reserve’s fixation with “stable prices” has led to an unstable economy for the past century. 

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/fallacy-stable-prices

The movement toward liberty has roots in two eras, neither of which saw much liberty. One lineage comes from the Enlightenment while the other emanates from ancient philosophers.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/two-lineages-liberty

Not even your Roomba vacuum cleaner is safe from state control. Time for the state to give up all economic controls across the board.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/state-coming-your-roomba

Mark Thornton opens with a warning from Jackson Hole: the Fed’s public mandate is a cover story. Its real job is to serve the big banks and the state by keeping deficits, debt, and financial markets afloat through the power of printability. New programs, wars, bailouts, and political promises all become easier when the Fed can create money with keyboard entries, while consumers pay later through higher prices, unemployment, and crisis. 

On Side B, Thornton joins Wall Street Bullion to discuss gold, silver, commodity prices, the long-term consequences of paper money, the burden facing younger Americans, and the dangers of hyperinflation. He explains why boom-bust cycles begin with central bank credit expansion, why dollar-denominated assets become vulnerable in an inflationary environment, and why a bottom-up approach—sound money, savings, local resilience, and real assets—matters now.

See also "Tightwads at the Fed" (Minor Issues, Episode 56) https://mises.org/podcasts/minor-issues/tightwads-fed

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There are two types of nationality. The first, as defined by Ludwig von Mises, involves people united by common languages and customs. The second is defined by the state.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/nationality-you-belong-state

In America, French-style violence was simply unnecessary for the revolutionaries to win, and we will never know if the Americans might have resorted to greater violence in different circumstances. 

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/three-reasons-why-french-revolution-was-so-different-american-revolution

Trump has made his family billions by courting foreign and corporate money and accepting extravagant gifts while in office. But he didn’t bring self-enrichment to Washington, he simply made it much harder to ignore.

Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/profiting-government-didnt-begin-trump

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California is looking to impose a new wealth tax to fleece the state's billionaires. While supporters of the tax claim it will raise more than $100 billion, if passed, it likely will crash in the same manner that wealth taxes in other countries like Sweden and Colombia have done.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/wealth-tax-revival-repeating-failed-experiment

The modern way of dealing with criminal behavior has been mass incarceration, yet crime abounds. Murray Rothbard believed that restitution and other methods were superior to the present state-run system.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/penal-leviathan-what-wacquant-and-rothbard-reveal-about-modern-punishment