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Government Coverups and Censorship Are the Problem

2024-11-02

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2024-11-02

“What makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed; how can you have an opinion if you are not informed? If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer… And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. It is deprived not only of its capacity to act but also of its capacity to...

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Private-Sector Jobs Went Negative in October. Will the Fed Panic Again?

2024-11-02

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2024-11-02

According to the most recent report from the federal government’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, the US economy added only 12,000 payroll jobs during October. This was the smallest month-to-month employment gain in nearly four years. Moreover, total private jobs fell in October by 28,000.This is the worst employment report since 2020, and it reflects an overall downward trend in employment growth since 2022. In addition to the drop in private...

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Lessons from Reconstruction

2024-11-02

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2024-11-02

In “The Terror of Reconstruction,” Lew Rockwell highlights the dangers of governments seeking to suppress their political opponents by an assault on citizens’ liberties. He draws upon the experience of the South under military dictatorship during the Reconstruction years as an example of what happens when governments embark on social revolution. One tactic described by Rockwell is denying the vote to those who supported their opponents:In the...

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The Great Political Divide in America

2024-11-02

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2024-11-02

What is the Mises Institute? The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property...

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The Reality of Red-State Fascism

2024-11-01

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2024-11-01

What is the Mises Institute? The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property...

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The Economics of Prepping

2024-11-01

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2024-11-01

Prepping is a very small industry in the United States, with annual spending specifically on “prepping” less than what government will spend in the time it took me to prepare this episode of the podcast.The amount of spending is an interesting issue, so is the purpose and efficiency of prepping. However, the mainstream media demeans preppers as irrational and out of touch with reality. Note that, from a scientific point of view, however, prepping...

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The Indian Rope Trick

2024-11-01

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2024-11-01

Social Justice and the Indian Rope Trickby Anthony de Jasay. Liberty Fund, 2014; 200 pp. The political theorist and economist Anthony de Jasay has given us a large number of interesting arguments in his book and in what follows I’d like to discuss a few of these.The Indian rope trick features an Indian fakir who throws a rope high into the air and then climbs up it, disappearing without visible means of support. De Jasay suggests that the demand...

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Unpacking Mises: Fractional Reserve Banking and the Currency School

2024-11-01

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2024-11-01

What is the Mises Institute? The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property...

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“Victory Plan” or Deadly Delusion? Zelensky’s Perilous Five-Point Plan

2024-11-01

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2024-11-01

It’s finally here: Ukrainian Volodymyr Zelensky’s “Victory Plan,” furtively touted for weeks as Zelensky sought, unsuccessfully, to peddle it to world leaders. Until now, all that Zelensky would say in public was that this clandestine plan paradoxically would not require negotiation with Putin, but also provides a way to strengthen Ukraine in order to “push Putin” to diplomatically end the war. Tone deaf in the extreme, several weeks ago Zelensky...

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Gold Is Back—And So Is Judy Shelton

2024-10-31

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2024-10-31

Gold is on the rise, and so is the typical gold-standard nostalgia that has erupted every time price inflation, banking crises, and/or debt concerns have reappeared after the fall of the Bretton Woods gold-exchange standard in 1971. Certainly, the precious metal’s ascent, as usual, is signaling that all is not well.Earlier this year, the precious metal soared past $2500 an ounce to all-time price highs, making it one of the best-performing assets...

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What Will You Do When Kamala (or Trump) Wins?

2024-10-31

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2024-10-31

What is the Mises Institute? The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property...

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The Establishment Media is Unaware of Its Growing Irrelevance

2024-10-31

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2024-10-31

What is the Mises Institute? The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property...

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Voting Against Fascism

2024-10-31

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2024-10-31

What is the Mises Institute? The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property...

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The Reactionary Containment in the 2024 Election

2024-10-31

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2024-10-31

On September 29, 2024, President Trump posted on X the Catholic prayer of St. Michael the Archangel alongside a photo of a St. Michael painting by Italian artist Guido Reni. The next day, Russell Brand and Jordan Peterson said the Lord’s Prayer over a crowd in Washington, D.C. Although social conservatism has been a touch-and-go tactic for Republicans in elections, it’s incredibly useful to use when trying to mobilize Christian groups, but has...

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How Intellectual Property Laws Stifle Innovation

2024-10-31

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2024-10-31

Innovation has long been considered the lifeblood of human progress, driving advancements in technology, medicine, and countless other fields that improve our quality of life. At its core, the “right to innovate” represents the freedom to experiment, develop, and implement new ideas without undue restrictions. This right encompasses the ability to access foundational knowledge, collaborate with others, and disseminate discoveries for the benefit of...

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Government vs. Crypto: Who Controls the Future?

2024-10-30

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2024-10-30

What is the Mises Institute? The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order.

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The Regime Thinks Free Speech is “Fanaticism”

2024-10-30

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2024-10-30

The freedom of speech is today threatened in the West to a degree not seen since the nineteenth-century classical liberals battled the censorious police states of the old conservative regimes. The free-market liberals largely won that battle, yet everywhere that a ruling class knows it is both unpopular and outnumbered it will attempt to silence free speech. A common argument used by those who cling to illegitimate power is the claim that free...

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Will Tuesday’s Vote Counts Be Another Sham Biden-Harris Statistic?

2024-10-30

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2024-10-30

If Kamala Harris wins the presidential election on Tuesday, Americans will be told that the final vote count is a sacred number that was practically handed down from Mt. Sinai engraved on a stone tablet. Any American who casts doubt on Harris’s victory will be vilified like one of those January 6, 2021 protestors sent to prison for “parading without a permit” in the US Capitol. Actually, anyone who doubted the 2020 election results was being...

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Is Trump Literally Hitler?

2024-10-30

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2024-10-30

What is the Mises Institute? The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property...

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Axis of Evil: America’s Three Worst Presidents

2024-10-30

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2024-10-30

The Siena College Research Institute, the American Political Science Association, and C-SPAN all publish rankings of American presidents by “mainstream” historians, political scientists, and other “presidential experts.” Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt usually alternate in first and second place, but occasionally George Washington will come in second. In the past several years, Donald Trump has been ranked dead last in all of them while...

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