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Here’s What Donald Trump Should Do Before Inauguration Day

2020-11-15

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2020-11-15

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Even if he loses, Donald Trump still has time to change military policy, pardon allies, unseat the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, and throw a wrench in the deep state apparatus. Original Article: "Here’s What Donald Trump Should Do Before Inauguration Day​". This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon. Narrated by Michael Stack.

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Curt Carlson on Innovation Champions

2020-11-14

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2020-11-14

Austrian economics sees an economy in motion, perpetually renewing itself. Economic agents (firms, customers, investors) constantly change their actions and strategies in response to outcome they mutually create. This further changes the outcome, which requires them to adjust afresh.

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Jeff Deist-America’s Economy Under Tyranny?

2020-11-11

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Jeff Deist, president of the Mises Institute, talks about the denial to hear opposing opinions and explains why disproportionate amounts of new money goes to the wealthiest.

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Election 2020: Choking on the Political Red and Blue Pills

2020-11-10

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2020-11-10

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Presidential election 2020 is the same as every other, except in the ways it isn’t. Allow me to expand on this. What is the same? The purpose of all elections is to allow a band of people called the state to legitimize their claim of control over everyone and everything within a given jurisdiction.

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The 2020 Voting Process – and What to Learn from Czech Republic

2020-11-09

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Jeff Deist, president of the Mises Institute, gives the talk "Our National Psychosis" about the 2020election voting process, the political divide and what to learn from Czech Republic.

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Lockdowners and “the Desire to Dominate”

2020-11-08

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2020-11-08

In many years of lecturing at Mises University, Judge Napolitano has given the same—terrifying—ending to his introductory speech. Not until the horrors of this year did it dawn on me that perhaps his point has its basis in reality. The dear judge often mentions, almost like a joke, the libido dominandi—the desire to dominate, or the will to power, harking back to Augustine of Hippo’s centuries-old writing.

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The Idea that Democracy Is the Same as Liberty Is a Weapon in the Hands of Despots

2020-11-07

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2020-11-07

As Americans approach a date with their polling places and “get out the vote” campaigns crescendo, there is plenty of rhetoric that all but deifies democracy.

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Dr. Markus Krall und Dr. Thorsten Polleit: US Wahl 2020 und der politische Globalismus

2020-11-06

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„Krall & Polleit Direkt“ geht in die zweite Runde. In Ausgabe #2, gedreht am frühen Morgen des 4. November 2020 gibt es kein anderes Thema als die US-Wahl 2020. Es erfolgt eine erste Einordnung nach dem Wahltag durch Dr. Markus Krall (CEO, Degussa Goldhandel) und Chefökonom Dr. Thorsten Polleit, in welchem das spannende Kopf-an-Kopf-Rennen beider Kandidaten reflektiert wird. Inhalte (Zeitmarken) 00:00:00 Einleitung am frühen Morgen des 4....

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Why Socialism Won’t End Worker “Exploitation”

2020-11-06

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2020-11-06

A belief still commonly held today by not just Marxists and socialists, but progressives of many stripes, is the insistence that employers are “stealing” part of their workers’ labor because the wage workers receive from their employer are less than the contribution of their labor to the final value (i.e., selling price) of the finished good.

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#37 Thorsten Polleit zur noch nicht entschiedenen US Wahl – Golden Times

2020-11-05

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Der Ausgang der US-Wahl ist nach wie vor ohne Ergebnis. Thorsten Polleit: "Ich denke, es wird noch weitere Verzögerungen geben." Was sagt die Wahl aus über die Lage der Demokratie in den USA? "Die Demokratie in den USA erweckt mehr Vertrauen als beispielsweise viele Demokratien in Europa. Ich glaube, die Wahl zeigt, die Demokratie in den USA nach wie vor voll funktionsfähig ist." Welche Rolle spielt der Ausgang der Wahl? Wie ist...

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What Will It Take for Americans to Consider Breaking Up?

2020-11-05

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Things don't have to be this way. Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/what-will-it-take-americans-consider-breaking This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon. Narrated by Michael Stack.

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The Election Was a Tie. Now What? | Ryan McMaken

2020-11-05

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The winner doesn’t represent “the nation.” There is no consensus. We’re not coming together “as a people.” These tired slogans should now strike every intelligent person as nonsense. Original article: https://mises.org/wire/election-was-tie-now-what "Close Elections Force Us to Ask Unpleasant Questions about Democracy" https://mises.org/wire/close-elections-force-us-ask-unpleasant-questions-about-democracy "Why Threats of...

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#2 „Krall & Polleit Direkt“ – Markus Krall und Thorsten Polleit mit einer Analyse der US-Wahl 2020

2020-11-05

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„Krall & Polleit Direkt“ geht in die zweite Runde. In Ausgabe #2, gedreht am frühen Morgen des 4. November 2020 gibt es kein anderes Thema als die US-Wahl 2020. Es erfolgt eine erste Einordnung nach dem Wahltag durch Dr. Markus Krall (CEO, Degussa Goldhandel) und Chefökonom Dr. Thorsten Polleit, in welchem das spannende Kopf-an-Kopf-Rennen beider Kandidaten reflektiert wird. Inhalte (Zeitmarken) 00:00:00 Einleitung am frühen Morgen des 4....

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The Benefits of Secession Are Becoming Increasingly Obvious

2020-11-05

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2020-11-05

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"Countries threaten to split apart when their people seem hopelessly divided…. We’re less united today than we’ve been at any time since the Civil War."

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Why Threats of Election Violence May Be Here to Stay

2020-11-05

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2020-11-05

Both private sector businesses and police departments believe there is a good chance there will be postelection unrest. Both groups are taking steps to protect themselves in case of riots. Some left-wing protest groups state they plan to do “whatever it takes” to make sure the correct candidate—i.e., Joe Biden—wins. The National Guard has mobilized in several states in anticipation of riots.

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Socialists Have Never Shown How They Could Increase the Standard of Living

2020-11-04

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2020-11-04

Marxism sees the coming of socialism as an inescapable necessity. Even if one were willing to grant the correctness of this opinion, one still would by no means be bound to embrace socialism. It may be that despite everything we cannot escape socialism, yet whoever considers it an evil must not wish it onward for that reason and seek to hasten its arrival; on the contrary, he would have the moral duty to do everything to postpone it as long as...

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The Problem with Modern Conservatism

2020-11-03

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Jeff Deist, president of the Mises Institute, talks about Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s “Democracy – The God that Failed” and the chapter about the problems with conservatism.

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The Benefits of Secession Are Becoming Increasingly Obvious

2020-11-03

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"Countries threaten to split apart when their people seem hopelessly divided…. We’re less united today than we’ve been at any time since the Civil War."

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Close Elections Force Us to Ask Unpleasant Questions about Democracy

2020-11-03

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A very close or contested election would remind us that elections do not demonstrate "the will of the people" and that national unity is founded on some very fragile myths.

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Jeff Deist on Hoppe’s Democracy: The God That Failed

2020-11-03

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2020-11-03

Why don't elections bring harmony and closure rather than ever greater political friction? Hans-Hermann Hoppe explained all of the fundamental problems with mass democracy more than 20 years ago in Democracy: The God That Failed.

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