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The government’s 988 line was created as a hot line to prevent suicides. While the intentions behind it might be good, there is no evidence that it actually succeeds in reducing the number of people who take their own lives. | Patrick N. Dempsey mises.org/mises-wire/988-may…

Veterans Day grew out of the relief that a devastating war was finally over. Today, politicians use it to praise the kind of sacrifice they continue to demand in wars that do not need to be fought. | @connorokeeffe mises.org/mises-wire/cruel-i…

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We need more Laissez-Faire Libertarians who understand that society needs no top-down rule. No society in the world needs good government in order to be free; it needs sectors of society that government cannot touch. | Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. mises.org/mises-wire/regime-…

Since 9/11, the US surveillance state has grown exponentially. However, the state of US paranoia has grown even more than that. Maybe there is a connection. | Luc Lelièvre mises.org/mises-wire/paradox…

Section 8 housing was created as an alternative to the disastrous program of public housing. Naturally, it has turned into a racket. | @JimBovard mises.org/mises-wire/section…

Great work @JpCortez27!

The recent wave of migration by North Africans into the Spanish exclave of Ceuta has caused a crisis there that will not be easily abated. It is time to take a hard look at what is happening there. | Sergio Fernández Redondo mises.org/mises-wire/truth-a…

Ninety years ago, John Maynard Keynes dismissed gold as a “barbarous relic” and recommended the pursuit of paper money. Today, we see the inflationary fruit of the poisonous tree. | George Ford Smith mises.org/mises-wire/further…

From a defense of free markets to criticisms of anti-discrimination laws, Richard Epstein has important things to say. In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon praises the legal scholar for his insights. mises.org/friday-philosophy/…

History books often connect the Great Awakening to the American Revolution. One overlooked link is how the revival challenged privileged religious establishments and helped fuel later colonial resistance to parliamentary supremacy. | Joshua Mawhorter mises.org/mises-wire/awakeni…

@DrMarkThornton joins @GoldRepublic_EN to examine the bond market, Federal Reserve policy, and the competition for capital between governments and the AI boom. youtube.com/watch?v=XCLAtJ-Q…

Jefferson did not mean equality in the sense that everyone is more or less equal in talents and abilities. And he certainly did not mean that equality (however defined) ought to imposed by a powerful state. | @ryanmcmaken mises.org/mises-wire/jeffers…

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By intervening in the markets in order to lower price volatility, the government is actually making the markets riskier. | Habib Boucenna mises.org/mises-wire/low-vol…

Historians increasingly demonize Jackson for enacting “ethnic cleansing,” ranking his Indian removal program as one of the era’s most momentous laws. | @DrPatrickNewman mises.org/mises-wire/america…

Increasingly, Americans and people around the world see the American government as a bankrupt, despotic empire headed in the wrong direction. The recent elections will change nothing. | @DrMarkThornton mises.org/mises-wire/empire-…

As French and immigrant youths riot in the streets, we should remember that French voters have demanded the very regime that now is dragging down the economy needed to support the vast French welfare state. | Franco L. Farias mises.org/mises-wire/democra…

As the midterms helped demonstrate, the post-covid inflation crisis and both parties' disinterest in actually solving it has put incumbents at a tremendous disadvantage. And that has become the defining political dynamic of the 2020s. | @connorokeeffe mises.org/mises-wire/inflati…