Paul Mueller
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The Return of Quantitative Easing
December 2025 marks the official end of the largest cycle of quantitative tightening the Federal Reserve has ever undertaken. From…
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COP-30 Misses the Point: Give Indigenous People Ownership, Not Handouts
Central planners just can’t help themselves. They feel obligated to solve the world’s problems. Consider this year’s Orwellianly-named “Conference of…
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The Ex-Communist Who Invented Modern Conservatism
Daniel Flynn’s recent biography, The Man Who Invented Conservatism: The Unlikely Life of Frank S. Meyer, sheds an interesting light…
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Liberty, Risk, and Permission to Live Dangerously
When my eldest son was four years old, he climbed on top of a batting cage at a park in…
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The Fed Cuts, but the Market Shrugs: Why Mortgage Rates Refuse to Fall
I wrote a few weeks ago about how Trump’s manipulation of the Federal Reserve would have to go much further…
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How Does the Federal Reserve Set Interest Rates?
Introduction People in financial markets and in the media regularly track Federal Reserve announcements and forecast what the Fed’s interest…
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How Do Communities Form? Exploring ‘Social Philosophers’
The Social Philosophers by Robert Nisbet is a tour de force through human history and philosophy. He grounds the unifying…
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Trump Plays for All the Federal Reserve Marbles
After the dismal July jobs report, President Trump has doubled down on his efforts to pressure the Federal Reserve to…
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IOUs to Inflation: The Realistic Limits of Magic Money Theory
Recently, a couple of advocates of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) wrote in The Hill about “Why we should stop worrying…
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What the End of the Chevron Doctrine Means
Paul Mueller explains how the regulatory environment and economy changes with the end of the Chevron Doctrine.
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