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This war is not just making energy more expensive, it’s knocking out the higher order goods the global structure of production depends on. This has already locked in dangerous shortages in critical industries like healthcare, food production, and much more.

Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/economic-destruction-trumps-war-goes-far-beyond-high-gas-prices

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The old saw that when one has a hammer, everything else is a nail certainly applies to a new book by Oliver Bullough on so-called money laundering. Joakim Book sets the readers straight.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/money-laundering-and-oliver-bulloughs-new-pearl-clutching-book

Before J. M. Keynes and Stephanie Kelton, there was John Law. The promise of free money never seems to die.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/irresistible-promise-john-law

What happens when a corporation resists a government edict because company leaders believe the policy to be morally wrong? The ordeal of Anthropic is a current case in point.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/when-corporations-resist-state-ethics-ai-and-limits-government-power

Dr. Jonathan Newman joins Charlotte McLeod and presents a primer on Austrian economics. They discuss discusses gold’s role as money and why “Fed independence” is largely political theater in practice. Jonathan also lays out a practical, Rothbardian framework for ending the Federal Reserve.

The original Investing News Network interview is online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv1lTKA1aAw.

On the latest episode of Minor Issues, Mark Thornton shares his interview with Charlotte McLeod of Investing News Network, unpacking the sharp swings in gold and silver since late 2025. Mark connects the selloffs to a tightening business cycle and a growing liquidity crunch, and explains how Middle East conflict and changing energy settlement patterns threaten the petrodollar narrative.

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One of the legacies of Keynesian thought is the belief that war is “good for the economy.” While war may help enable employment, nonetheless, its overall legacy is destructive, and even the jobs war “creates” are economically undesirable.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/myth-wont-die-war-good-economy

In this lecture from the 2026 Libertarian Scholars Conference, Ryan McMaken looks at how the old classical liberal program of democracy and constitutions has failed, and why we need a more realist view of the state and its many crimes. 

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However one may turn the matter, one cannot discover any reason why an ideological distortion of truth should be more useful to the bourgeoisie than a correct theory.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-daily/ideological-impregnation-thought

Despite the claims of the chartalists and modern monetary theory advocates, early American monetary history tells a much different story. In fact, much of the historical evidence illustrates Menger’s theory.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/barter-media-exchange-and-colonial-america