Theses Index
Curated thesis articles.
Last updated: 2026-05-24
Contents
| File | Summary | Tags | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-17-fed-may-2026-rate-cut-abct.md | Endorses the May 2026 Fed rate cut’s immediate mortgage-rate and home-sales response as an early ABCT rate-channel instance: a central-bank cut suppresses the gross market rate, cheapens mortgage credit, pulls demand toward long-lived assets, and can begin the malinvestment sequence when the lower rate is not backed by voluntary saving. | thesis, federal-reserve, monetary-policy, interest-rates, mortgage-rates, housing, credit-expansion, business-cycle, austrian-business-cycle | 2026-05-20 |
| 2026-05-18-digital-euro-launch-cbdc-total-intervention.md | Endorses the reported digital-euro holding cap and 12-month inactivity expiry as the CBDC architecture Hillebrand classifies as programmable money: a central-bank liability whose balance limits, expiry clocks, surveillance capacity, and payment rules are enforced by the monetary medium itself. | thesis, digital-euro, cbdc, ecb, programmable-money, holding-cap, expiring-balances, financial-surveillance, rule-of-law | 2026-05-19 |
| 2026-05-18-eu-wealth-tax-directive-capital-consumption.md | Critiques the May 2026 EU wealth-tax directive framing. The directive’s ‘fair share’ language recodes a recurring claim on accumulated capital as moral repair, while Rothbard’s wealth-tax incidence analysis, Mises’s capital-consumption frame, Hoppe’s caretaker incentive, and the political-means distinction identify the mechanism as capital taxation hardened into a supranational floor. | thesis, european-union, wealth-tax, taxation, capital-consumption, capital-flight, political-means, intervention, austrian-economics | 2026-05-19 |
| 2026-05-18-nato-defense-spending-floor-protection-racket.md | Endorses the protection-racket reading of NATO’s May 2026 agreement to raise the defense-spending floor from 2% to 3.5% of GDP by 2032 with a central compliance audit: protection language, tax-backed extraction, procurement capacity, and audited compliance are the reported design. | thesis, nato, defense-spending, protection-racket, war-and-state-formation, rothbard, tilly, taxation, political-means, procurement | 2026-05-19 |
| 2026-05-19-imf-conditionality-supranational-political-means.md | Critiques the reported IMF framework conditioning emerging-market lending on carbon-budget targets and minimum-wage floors. The framework recodes balance-of-payments support as supranational policy command: wage floors operate as binding price controls, carbon budgets require centralized target-setting under dispersed knowledge, and the mandate expansion substitutes discretionary administration for monetary cooperation. | thesis, imf, conditionality, carbon-budgets, minimum-wage, price-control, central-planning, rule-of-law, political-means | 2026-05-19 |
| 2026-05-24-imf-sdr-climate-conditionality.md | Critiques the reported IMF climate-conditioned SDR allocation as a reserve-asset facility turned into a discretionary policy lever: Hoppe’s SDR-centralization frame, intervention theory, Hayek’s knowledge problem, and rule-of-law analysis all bear on the planetary-boundaries framing. | thesis, imf, sdr, climate-policy, conditionality, monetary-policy, central-planning, rule-of-law, political-means | 2026-05-24 |
| argentina-rent-decontrol-2023.md | Endorses Argentina’s late-2023 rent decontrol as an instance of the Mises-Rothbard price-control prediction: an effective rent ceiling creates a housing shortage by suppressing the legal return to supply; repeal reopens the offer margin, and the post reports listings returning and real rents falling. | thesis, argentina, rent-control, price-control, housing-policy, decontrol, buenos-aires, austrian-economics, mises, rothbard | 2026-05-19 |
| state-as-parasite-thesis.md | Tests the two-sentence claim that the State is a parasite that disguises itself as symbiosis, and that dictatorships and organized crime are less-skilled versions of the same parasite. Sentence 1 is strongly supported in the anarcho-libertarian corpus (Rothbard, Oppenheimer, Nock, Bastiat, Spooner, La Boetie, Nietzsche, Hoppe), with non-libertarian convergence from Tilly’s historical sociology and adjacent descriptions from Schmitt and Foucault. Sentence 2 holds for ordinary regimes but breaks at totalitarianism in Arendt’s specific sense; her power-vs-violence distinction clarifies why terror is not simply weak legitimacy. | thesis, state, parasite-thesis, evolution-of-the-state, totalitarianism, political-means, protection-racket, banality-of-evil, total-domination, violence-vs-power, state-of-exception, biopower, libertarianism | 2026-05-12 |