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To Succeed, the AfCFTA Must Be about Actual Free Trade, Not Government-Managed “Free Trade”

2022-05-30

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2022-05-30

The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is the world's largest free trade area by the number of countries. It is the most ambitious and, given demographic trends, the most promising free trade project on earth. The AfCFTA matters very much to Africa's economies separately and to the continent's collaborative and integrated economic development.

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Regulations Vs Sovereignty to Maximize Wealth

2022-05-30

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Does the government or the central planners know what's best for us to maximize our wealth, or is it up to us to figure these things out? This is the battle between sovereignty and regulations.

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Austrian Economists Are Not Surprised by the Shortages

2022-05-30

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2022-05-30

While supporters of the Biden administration fault Putin for shortages, Austrian economists know the answer lies in Washington's monetary and economic mismanagement.

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Christianity and the Development of Human Capital: Challenging the Narratives

2022-05-29

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2022-05-29

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While the standard secular narrative is that Christianity held back science and human development, history tells a different story, one of literacy and the development of human capital.

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Police Botched the Uvalde Standoff. Now Gun Controllers Want to Give Police More Power.

2022-05-28

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2022-05-28

First it was Columbine. Then it was Parkland. Now, we learn that at Robb Elementary School, police officers again stood around outside a school while the killer was inside with children.

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Peace through Strength? Excessive US Military Spending Encourages More War

2022-05-28

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2022-05-28

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has brought America’s foreign policy interventions under the limelight once again. Ryan McMaken argues that the US administration’s claim that countries should not have the right to a sphere of influence, implicitly addressing Russia, is hypocritical.

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Government Spending Is the Real Tax; Deficits Are a Sideshow

2022-05-27

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2022-05-27

Many economists believe that during an economic slump government should run large budget deficits in order to keep the economy going with increases in government outlays, with the consequent budget deficit giving individuals more disposable money.

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Meet Andrew Moran, Head of Property Management and Build to Rent

2022-05-25

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As the Head of Property Management and Build to Rent, Andrew is responsible for setting strategy, growing the business, driving performance and managing key relationships. With years of experience in residential property lettings, Andrew is delighted to be a part of the Orlando Reid family. Tune in to listen to Andrew Moran discussing his work and about his life in Glossop. #OrlandoReidManchester #propertymanagement #Manchester #investments...

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Understanding Russia’s War: The Strange Philosophy of Aleksandr Dugin

2022-05-24

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2022-05-24

Russians are "eschatologically chosen." They must stand against the false faith, the pseudoreligion of Western liberalism and the spread of its evil: modernity, scientism, postmodernity, and the new world order. This is the thesis of Aleksandr Dugin, the prominent Russian philosopher, and a mentor of the Russian president Vladimir Putin.

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It Just Might Be Time to Listen to the Austrians

2022-05-23

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2022-05-23

While it is sometimes portrayed as a trivial assortment of anecdotes and odd or mistaken experiments, stripped of its hyperbole and properly contextualized, behavioral economics can offer insights to Austrians seeking to optimize their own outcomes.

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Nickel: How Government Alchemists Turned a Base Money Hard and Now Are Expected to Kill It.

2022-05-22

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2022-05-22

The nickel, the once popular US five-cent coin, is known for its nickel content (25 percent nickel and 75 percent copper). It originated as a type of fiat money in that its intrinsic metal value was far less than the purchasing power stamped on it. The final act in the illustrative monetary career of the nickel is expected to be extinction, as with the penny, as inflation increases the coin's cost of production and reduces its real purchasing...

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The Unborns’ Dying Wish: The Abortion of the Fed

2022-05-21

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2022-05-21

In a moment that would have made the progressive eugenicist Margaret Sanger proud, former Fed chair Janet Yellen extoled the virtues of high abortion rates among poor women, as they allow them to have higher labor force participation rates.

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Was Jean-Baptiste Say a Market Anarchist?

2022-05-20

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2022-05-20

Jean-Baptiste is certainly best known for his famous Law of Markets (la loi des débouchés) also referred to as Say's Law. Though Say's Law is one of the key points of the classical school of economics, the manner in which this obvious proposition has been distorted and misinterpreted in a significant number of economic textbooks as well as in lectures of certified professors of economics is simply perplexing.

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McDonald’s Closes All Stores in Russia as Woke Russophobes Rage

2022-05-20

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2022-05-20

McDonald's Corporation has announced that it will permanently leave Russia, closing 850 outlets. The company's chief executive, Chris Kempczinski, explained that the move was motivated by "the humanitarian crisis caused by the war in Ukraine" and that the current situation does not offer "the same hope and promise that led us to enter the Russian market 32 years ago."

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The Fallacy of Collectivism

2022-05-19

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2022-05-19

According to the doctrines of universalism, conceptual realism, holism, collectivism, and some representatives of Gestaltpsychologie, society is an entity living its own life, independent of and separate from the lives of the various individuals, acting on its own behalf and aiming at its own ends which are different from the ends sought by the individuals.

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It’s Time for America to Ditch NATO

2022-05-19

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2022-05-19

In the first episode of this new podcast, Ryan McMaken and Zachary Yost discuss NATO, Turkey, Russia, and why the USA needs to leave it all behind.

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Noninterventionism Is Not Isolationism: The US Government Should Stop Arming Ukraine

2022-05-18

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2022-05-18

Proponents of arming Ukraine against Russia call critics "isolationists" as a pejorative term. But these "entangling alliances" have a history of sad endings with tragic results. Original Article: "Noninterventionism Is Not Isolationism: The US Government Should Stop Arming Ukraine" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon.

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The Russo-Ukrainian War: A New Opportunity for Demagogues to Destroy Freedoms at Home

2022-05-18

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2022-05-18

Politicians thoroughly enjoy times of war. Periods of bellicosity are when the most power-hungry members of the political class indulge in their most depraved political fantasies.

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Federal Reserve Policies Aimed at Creating Price Stability Bring About Economic Instability

2022-05-17

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2022-05-17

For most economists and politicians, the role of central bank authorities is to make the economy as stable as possible. What do they mean by economic stability? Economic stability refers to an absence of excessive fluctuation, so an economy with constant output growth and low and stable price inflation is likely to be regarded as stable.

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Freedom and Sound Money: Two Sides of a Coin

2022-05-17

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2022-05-17

It is impossible to grasp the meaning of the idea of sound money if one does not realize that it was devised as an instrument for the protection of civil liberties against despotic inroads on the part of governments. Ideologically it belongs in the same class with political constitutions and bills of right.

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