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The rent is too high. However, government interference into rental markets has been the main reason rents are so high in the first place.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/government-intervention-not-blackrock-blame-housing-crisis

Cheney was an architect of both Iraq wars, and he was a perennial supporter of the American surveillance state, torture, and more. 

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-i-wont-be-mourning-dick-cheney

Politicians in both parties are promising to address the affordability crisis. But neither is focusing on, or even discussing, the true causes. Here’s what they are and how to fix them.

Read the article here: https://mises.org/mises-wire/how-actually-solve-affordability-crisis

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We must realize that the two most powerful motivations in human history have always been ideology and economic interest, and that a joining of these two motivations can be downright irresistible.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-daily/origins-welfare-state-america

Inflation is not just an economic phenomenon. It also undercuts the foundations of a civilization, leading to the breakdown of society itself.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/road-de-civilization-inflation-and-moral-erosion-society

Roger Williams, the Baptist minister whose libertarian views ran afoul of the Massachusetts Bay Colony authorities, should be honored as one of this country’s early libertarians.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/roger-williams-exemplar-americas-soul

Prompted by an online debate about whether economics belongs with the hard sciences, Bob reviews common defenses of mainstream practice and explains why they don’t settle the scientific status of the field. He outlines the Mises–Rothbard view: economics as praxeology (logic of action), closer to geometry than laboratory testing, with core insights on opportunity cost, incentives, prices, money, and policy constraints that don’t depend on forecasting the exact timing of crashes.

• Understanding Money Mechanics: Mises.org/HAP526a
• Bob's Mises Daily Article, "Economists Can Be Hilarious": Mises.org/HAP526b
• Hoppe's Economic Science and the Austrian Method: Mises.org/HAP526c
• Lessons for the Young Economist: Mises.org/HAP526d

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On this marathon episode of Minor Issues, Mark stitches together four recent interviews for a fast-moving tour of today’s economy: why gold spiked while precious metals whipsawed, how ballooning US debt and rising servicing costs tilt policy toward monetization, and what that means for inflation, markets, and families. Along the way Mark explains the Austrian lens behind his calls and why using it beats siloed, headline-driven takes.

Highlights include: the recent precious metals pullback and what to watch next; the mechanics of debt monetization; distributional effects that favor asset holders over wage earners; and why hyperinflation risk is slow… until it’s fast.

"Dollar Demise and the New Era for Gold & Silver" (The Freedom Report), November 7, 2025: https://Mises.org/MI_146_A

"GOLD: You Will NOT Get A Second Warning!" (Soar Financially), October 28, 2025: https://Mises.org/MI_146_B

"Gold Ringing Alarm Bells, Silver Setting Up to Skyrocket" (Investing News), October 28, 2025: https://Mises.org/MI_146_C

"The Fed and Runaway Government Debt Undermine the Very Basis of Civilisation" (maneco64), November 1, 2025: https://Mises.org/MI_146_D

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The revolutionaries include the pamphleteer writing in his study, the journalist, the agitator, the organizer, the campus activist, the theoretician, the philanthropist. 

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/meaning-revolution

The government “shutdown” and the so-called threat to the food stamp program may be abated for now, but we need to understand why this program has metastasized in recent years. James Bovard tells us why.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/food-stamps-and-federal-war-self-reliance