Category Archive: 6b.) Mises.org

Colonies Compared: Why British Colonies Were More Economically Successful

Last month, British black studies professor Kehinde Andrews argued that the British Empire was “far worse than the Nazis.” It was a controversial comparison to be sure, but it raises the question: Compared to other expansionist regimes, how bad was the British Empire?

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Community and Civil Society over State

Raghuram Rajan has written a surprising book. Now teaching finance at the University of Chicago, he is an international bureaucrat in good standing, and not a minor one at that; he was chief economist of the International Monetary Fund. Yet far from calling for an increase in “global governance,” as one might expect from someone with his background, he wants to strengthen the local, “proximate,” community.

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They Said Things Would Be Much Worse in States without Lockdowns. They Were Wrong.

Like nearly all US states, Georgia imposed a stay-at-home order in March 2020 in response to demands from public health officials claiming a stay-at-home order would lessen total deaths from covid-19. But unlike most states, Georgia ended its stay-at-home order after only five weeks, and proceeded to lower other restrictions quickly.

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How a Small Rise in Bond Yields May Create a Financial Crisis

How can a small rise in bond yields scare policymakers so much? Ned Davis Research estimates that a 2% yield in the US 10-year bond could lead the Nasdaq to fall 20%, and with it the entire stock market globally. A 2% yield can cause such disruption? How did we get to such a situation?

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It’s Time for the US to Withdraw from Korea

Pulling troops out of South Korea is an important step in changing the conversation on American foreign policy, which is swamped in platitudes of promoting missionary enterprises abroad and finding new bogeymen to confront.  Original Article: "It's Time for the US to Withdraw from Korea" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon. Narrated by Michael Stack.

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Why a Green New Deal Is More Expensive Than Joe Biden Realizes

Wind and solar power can work well when placed in an ideal location. Much of the time, however, these projects require a lot of fossil fuel to produce, but then never deliver the promised "zero-carbon" energy. Original Article: "Why a Green New Deal Is More Expensive Than Joe Biden Realizes" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon. Narrated by Michael Stack.

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Thorsten Polleit | Massive Geldentwertung | Jeder muss das wissen!

Videoinhalte: Banken, Wirtschaft, Finanzen, Geld, Kapital, Aktien, Börse, Immobilien, Politik, Medien, Gold, Silber, Edelmetalle, Bitcoin, Kryptowährung, Währungskrise, Währungsreform, Finanzpolitik, Finanzmarkt, Banken, Finanzcrash, Eurocrash, Bankencrash,

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Why Is Economic Journalism So Bad?

Niall Ferguson holds a PhD in philosophy from Oxford, taught history at Harvard and NYU, and wrote perhaps the definitive biography of Henry Kissinger. So, naturally, Bloomberg hired him to write on economics.

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What the Shipping Container Shortage Reveals about US-China Trade

Despite the record unemployment rate, widespread hardship to businesses, strains on the healthcare system, political turmoil, and general disruption to daily life in 2020, US consumers have managed to ramp up their habit of buying things.

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In Some Countries, Lockdowns May Be the “New Normal”

While some countries in Europe are showing signs of lifting all restrictions soon, Ireland’s so-called leaders are telling citizens it cannot be guaranteed that they’ll even be able to holiday in their own country this summer. Original Article: "In Some Countries, Lockdowns May Be the "New Normal"'" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon. Narrated by Michael Stack.

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DRUM COVER Rosanna – Toto

The infamous Rosanna by Toto I DO NOT own the music in this video, all rights go to the band and label

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Prof. Thorsten Polleit: Der Euro Absturz kommt! (SCHOCKIEREND)

Thorsten Polleit ist ein deutscher Ökonom. Er ist Chefökonom der Degussa Sonne/Mond Goldhandel, Partner der Polleit & Riechert Investment Management LLP, Präsident und Gründer der deutschen Abteilung des libertären Ludwig von Mises Institute und Honorarprofessor an der Universität Bayreuth.

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De-Socialization in Theory and Practice

On April 23, 1990, in Washington, DC, the Ludwig von Mises Institute sponsored the first Austrian School look at the "post-socialist" age. It went a long way toward developing a blueprint—consistent with the Austrian tradition—for dismantling the command economy.

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Moral Courage and the Austrian School

When economic crises hit, most pundits and intellectuals never see it coming. That is because they have never learned the lesson that Bastiat sought to teach, namely that we need to look beneath the surface, to the unseen dimensions of human action, in order to see the full economic reality.

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What Really Happened With the Texas Power Grid

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Since the deep freeze in February caused millions of Texas homes to lose their power, partisans have been fighting over the blame. The governor blamed wind turbines and the green agenda, whereas Paul Krugman said the fault was with natural gas. Bob shows the numbers; natural gas was to blame only in the sense that nobody expected wind to be useful during a winter crisis.

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THORSTEN POLLEIT: Der Schock wird riesig!

Thorsten Polleit (4. Dezember 1967 in Münster) ist ein deutscher Ökonom. Er ist Chefökonom der Degussa Sonne/Mond Goldhandel, Partner der Polleit & Riechert Investment Management LLP, Präsident und Gründer der deutschen Abteilung des libertären Ludwig von Mises Institute (Ludwig von Mises Institut Deutschland) und Honorarprofessor an der Universität Bayreuth.

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Das sind die wirklichen Probleme!

Thorsten Polleit (* 4. Dezember 1967) ist ein deutscher Ökonom. Er ist Chefökonom der Degussa Sonne/Mond Goldhandel, Partner der Polleit & Riechert Investment Management LLP, Präsident und Gründer der deutschen Abteilung des libertären Ludwig von Mises Institute und Honorarprofessor an der Universität Bayreuth. Er tritt für eine marktwirtschaftliche Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftsordnung ohne solche Störungen ein.

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Per Bylund and Mark Packard: Radically Reshaping Business Thinking via Subjective Value

In a recently published paper titled "Subjective Value In Entrepreneurship," Professors Bylund and Packard apply the principle of subjective value to generate significant new avenues of thinking for entrepreneurial businesses to pursue.

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