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What is the Mises Institute? The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order....

From roughly 2020 to 2022, “syndicators” took over the apartment investment market. During that time, this group of dimwitted rent seekers used bridge loans to finance their apartment acquisitions. At 85% leverage, the bridge loans left only a sliver of equity to raise, for which these syndicators used third parties or online platforms built for anonymous fundraising from average Americans with cash to burn and no place to earn a yield in the zero interest rate...

Overview: The US dollar is mostly firmer today ahead of what promises to be an eventful week. Sterling is bearing the brunt today, off a little less than half-of-a-cent as expectations creep up of a rate cut this week and Chancellor of the Exchequer Reeves plays up the poor state of public finances left by the Conservative government. Sterling (and the euro's) five- and 20-day moving averages have crossed. The yen is mostly within the pre-weekend range. Outside a of...

What is the Mises Institute? The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order....

What is the Mises Institute? The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order....

Javier Milei, economist and president of Argentina, is a complicated character whose background and views have deserved heated discussion. This article will look briefly at Milei as an Austrian economist — the question of his libertarianism was settled elsewhere. One further point before starting: This is an article about economic thought. An assessment of his policies will be touched only shortly in the closing remarks and hopefully in another article.Milei, Smith...

What is the Mises Institute? The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order....

A sizable advantage Murray Rothbard’s approach to libertarianism – that is, one based in private property – has over other approaches, such as those based in vague notions of “freedom,” is its pursuit of non-contradiction. A frequent problem in modern liberal democracy is the desire to declare a number of things to be “rights,” that end up contradicting previously pronounced “rights.” One can readily see the problems in the American jurisprudence surrounding the...

What is the Mises Institute? The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order....

On Inside Geneva, we bring you part three of our summer profile series. This week we talk to a doctor looking for treatments for some of the world’s most neglected diseases. Search for Inside Geneva wherever you get your podcasts. --- swissinfo.ch is the international branch of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SBC). Its role is to report on Switzerland and to provide a Swiss perspective on international events. For more articles, interviews and videos visit swissinfo.ch or...