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Looming Bank Failures Point to More Price Inflation as Real Wages Fall Again

Even if Powell is sincere in this stated desire to slay inflation with more rate hikes, recent bank failures will put the Fed under enormous pressure to end its rate hikes and to once again embrace easy money to save the banks and Wall Street.  Original Article: "Looming Bank Failures Point to More Price Inflation as Real Wages Fall Again" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon.  [embedded content]...

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Did Colonialism Impoverish Africa and Asia? Perhaps Not

Revisiting the legacies of colonialism to indict Western imperialism has become a fashionable pastime for leading academics. Many argue that colonialism erected permanent roadblocks to thwart the progress of ex-colonies. Western colonialism is so vilified that any attempt to present a balanced overview is deemed improper. Bruce Gilley’s controversial essay, “The Case for Colonialism,” spawned a firestorm of criticisms that led the journal, Third World Quarterly, to...

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Mises Club Carolinas

Escape the summer heat for a cool weekend in the beautiful mountains of Banner Elk, NC. Tentative plans are to meet for dinner on Friday, July 21 at the Sugar Mountain Ski Resort. Guest speakers will be Franklin Sanders and his son, Justin, who will discuss their decades long effort to protect the precious metal trading industry from government intervention. Saturday, July 22 will begin with breakfast with the owners of Sugar Mountain while they discuss how they...

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Mises Club Carolinas

Join Mises Club Carolinas for their next meetup in Fort Mill, SC, on Saturday, April 22. We'll tour Southpoint Solutions, and industrial lighting company from Club Member Jared Wall. After the tour, we'll have dinner and discussion at Farmhaus Butcher and Beer Garden. The speaker will be a new Club Member, Trey Carson, owner of Happy Mining, a bitcoin mining company in central North Carolina.  For more information or to register for this event, please contact Kent...

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The Theory and Practice of Conspiracy

Collusion was a way of life with state-chartered enterprises. Little has changed, as firms with political connections still gain profits from their collusion with the state. Original Article: "The Theory and Practice of Conspiracy" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon.  [embedded content]...

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The Outbreak of World War I: A Libertarian Realist Rebuttal

As you may have noticed, those dreaded “forces” seem to have rematerialized—in the headlines, in the journals, in the pages of bestsellers: those historical, material, political, or ideological forces that supposedly make conflict between some set of groups, classes, or states “inevitable.” But as the great libertarian historian Ralph Raico never tired of telling, such collectivist narratives are often little more than convenient scapegoats or outright inventions to...

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Tough Fed Decisions

Overview: The market has concluded that the Fed will hike rates today. The US two-year yield has risen from about 3.63% at Monday's lows almost 4.20% yesterday. It needs to rise to 4.35% to recover half of its decline since March 8 but has come back softer today. Meanwhile, the banking crisis continues to ease, and Europe's Stoxx 600 bank index is up 1.5%, its third consecutive advance. The US KBW bank index rallied almost 5% yesterday. Still, while the dollar drew...

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Are Bank Failures a Sign of More Trouble Ahead?

The failure of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) on March 10 was the second largest bank failure in US history. Just two days following SVB’s collapse, Signature Bank joined the record books as the third largest bank failure in US history. First Republic Bank also seemed on the edge of collapse until Bank of America, Citigroup, and other big banks agreed to jointly fund a bailout for it. Major Swiss bank Credit Suisse was also teetering on the brink when it received a 54...

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