"Saving lives versus saving money" comparisons confuse ends with means. The end of saving the economy is not to have more money. The end is to have resources necessary to preserve the lives and health of countless human beings.

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Government likes to put out lots of data showing things like income and employment for huge numbers of people. The problem is, this tells us almost nothing about how real-life people are hurt or helped by government intervention. Read the text version of this presentation online: https://mises.org/library/how-economic-aggregation-hides-problems-interventionism * * * * DISCLAIMER: This audio presentation …

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Opponents of free markets sometimes describe market competition of dog-eat-dog, but that metaphor has nothing to do with markets and everything to do with politics and war. Read the text version of this presentation online: https://mises.org/library/dog-eat-dog-delusion * * * * DISCLAIMER: This audio presentation is owned by the Ludwig von Mises Institute and is protected …

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The term “quid pro quo” has been twisted to now include government handouts and state-mandated exchanges. Read the text version of this presentation online: https://mises.org/library/understanding-quid-pro-quo * * * * DISCLAIMER: This audio presentation is owned by the Ludwig von Mises Institute and is protected under Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This YouTube channel …

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Politicians and regulators usually don’t know what they don’t know about everything from health care to your small business, but that sort of compound ignorance won’t stop them from regulating the minutiae of everyday life and commerce. Read the text version of this presentation online: https://mises.org/library/regulate-it-first-learn-about-it-never * * * * DISCLAIMER: This audio presentation is …

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When governments spend, regulate, and tax, they decrease household take-home pay while diverting savings and investment to the government class. Read the text version of this presentation online: https://mises.org/library/why-cost-government-higher-you-think * * * * DISCLAIMER: This audio presentation is owned by the Ludwig von Mises Institute and is protected under Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). …

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Murray Rothbard once noted that “One of the most common charges leveled against the free market is that it reflects and encourages unbridled ‘selfish materialism’ … it distracts man from higher ideals. It leads man away from spiritual or intellectual values.” But that allegation is far from true. Read the text version of this presentation …

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