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Das Ende naht: Wohlstand in Gefahr

2020-10-28

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Einen zweiten Lockdown wird die Wirtschaft nicht verkraften. Damit ist der Wohlstand für alle in Gefahr. Michael Mross im Gespräch mit Ökonom Thorsten Polleit. Buch: https://amzn.to/3kA3GGM Unser Telegram Kanal: https://t.me/mmnews_offiziell Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mmnews_offiziell/?igshid=1fx0jnw5yijl4

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On Foreign Policy, Trump Is Still the Lesser Evil

2020-10-27

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2020-10-27

Audio Mises Wire
The Democrats, Liz Cheney, and the Never Trumpers still want endless wars, and they hate Trump's apparent lack of enthusiasm for embracing their dreams of empire. This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon. Narrated by Michael Stack. Original Article: "On Foreign Policy, Trump Is Still the Lesser Evil".

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Brain Death: Challenges and Responses

2020-10-27

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2020-10-27

Does it matter if we call irreversibly comatose patients “dead?” Our guest is Doyen Nguyen, OP, MD, STD. Dr. Nguyen was previously an academic hemato-pathologist and is currently a Catholic moral theologian and bioethicist.

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Econtradictions: Bob Discusses Free Trade, Welfare Benefits, Price Gouging, and Utility Theory

2020-10-26

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2020-10-26

Audio Mises Wire
Bob unveils a new series in which he explains and then evaluates apparent contradictions in the way free-market libertarians handle certain issues. Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest: Bastiat’s “Petition of the Candlemakers”Bob’s article on price gougingFor more information, see BobMurphyShow.com. The Bob Murphy Show is also available on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, and via RSS.

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How Decades of Media and Faculty Bias Have Pushed America to the Left

2020-10-24

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2020-10-24

It’s been clear for decades that national news organizations such as CNN and the New York Times tend to be biased in favor of social democracy (i.e., “progressivism”) and what we would generally call a “left-wing” ideology.

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Der Antikapitalist: Ein Weltverbesserer der keiner ist – mit Thorsten Polleit (Mises Karma 55)

2020-10-23

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Mises Karma – Der freiheitliche Podcast – erscheint seit Episode 51 auf Youtube auf dem Kanal von eigentümlich frei. Besuchen Sie auch die Website von Mises Karma unter: https://miseskarma.de/ Episode 55: Der Antikapitalist: Ein Weltverbesserer der keiner ist Im Gespräch mit Prof. Dr. Thorsten Polleit über sein neues Buch „Der Antikapitalist: Ein Weltverbesserer der keiner ist“ und Antworten auf die Fragen: Was ist eigentlich Kapitalismus? Warum...

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Was Hoppe Wrong About Democracy?

2020-10-22

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2020-10-22

Hans-Hermann Hoppe has shown in his writings on democracy that democracy leads to economic impoverishment and political disaster under certain conditions.  But what are those conditions, and are they dominant in electoral institutions in the United States today?

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The Progressivism of the Future Is Really Just the Socialism of the Past

2020-10-20

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2020-10-20

The world is currently in the midst of a newly aggressive drive to bring about a new socialist order through a powerful and "efficient" technocratic state. This new order has been labeled as "progressive," but it is merely the latest version of the socialist impulse which we have seen before in the form of socialism and communism. 

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If We Want to Increase Demand in the Market, We Must First Increase Production

2020-10-20

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2020-10-20

Audio Mises Wire
An individual’s demand is constrained by his production of goods. The more goods an individual produces, the more of other goods he can secure for himself.

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Digitales Zentralbankgeld: Ein Einfallstor für Verstaatlichung – Schutzlos ohne Bargeld

2020-10-19

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Der Meisterring, den die Notenbanken, darunter auch die Europäische Zentralbank (EZB), derzeit schmieden, heißt digitales Zentralbankgeld. Thorsten Polleit, Chefvolkswirt der Degussa Edelmetallhandel, beschreibt, wie die Menschen mit digitalem Zentralbankgeld wirksam kontrolliert und gesteuert werden können. Mehr dazu: https://bit.ly/2HfPHHH Wenn Sie unsere Arbeit freiwillig unterstützen möchten, können Sie das folgendermaßen tun:...

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David Gordon on the Bishops and the Gospel of Nice

2020-10-19

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David Gordon on the Bishops and the Gospel of Nice

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Bob Murphy Analyzes “The Hunt” and “The Purge” Movies as an Anarchist

2020-10-19

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2020-10-19

Bob offers his commentary on the movies “The Hunt” and “The Purge”—both produced by Blumhouse Productions—and focuses on whether The Purge storyline offers a challenge to Rothbard’s depiction of anarcho-capitalism.

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Central Banks and the Problem with Playing God

2020-10-19

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2020-10-19

Today’s Western institutions have long been deemed to be sacrosanct. As a matter of fact, though, nation-states are increasingly met with reservation or even outright resentment. Public trust in government is near historic lows, and pillars like the media or democracy are suffering from a loss of confidence.

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Professor Matthew McCaffrey on the Austrian Definition of Capital and its Application for the Health of Your Business

2020-10-18

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2020-10-18

An understanding of the Austrian definition of capital is tremendously useful to all business owners and managers.

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The Jacksonians’ Bank War: Liberty versus Power

2020-10-18

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2020-10-18

The Jacksonians saw central banking for what it was: a way of making the rich even richer, while ripping off ordinary people. We remember the Jacksonians not just because they were right about the central bank, but because they were also very successful in their fight against the Bank and its allies.

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Why There’s So Much Confusion over What “Inflation” Means

2020-10-17

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2020-10-17

Understood properly,  inflation is not a general increase in prices but is an increase in the money supply "out of thin air" which brings about the impoverishment of wealth generators. When inflation is seen as a general increase in prices, then anything that contributes to price increases is called inflationary.

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Thorsten Polleit: Die große Kapitalismus-Verwirrung (Mises Karma Episode 54)

2020-10-16

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Mises Karma – Der freiheitliche Podcast – erscheint ab Episode 51 auf Youtube auf dem Kanal von eigentümlich frei. Besuchen Sie auch die Website von Mises Karma unter: https://miseskarma.de/ Episode 54: Die große Verwirrung: Kapitalismus-Kritik, die Sozialismus-Kritik ist (Thorsten Polleit) Das Kapitel „Die große Verwirrung: Kapitalismus-Kritik, die Sozialismus-Kritik ist“ aus dem Buch „Der Antikapitalist: Ein Weltverbesserer der keiner ist“...

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Pandemic Follies: Tyranny Won’t Keep Us Safe

2020-10-16

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2020-10-16

Politicians have destroyed more than 13 million jobs this year in a deluge of edicts aimed to fight the covid-19 pandemic. More than two hundred thousand Americans still died from the coronavirus, but the anticovid government crackdowns probably did far more damage than the virus. The covid crisis has also shown how easy it is for politicians to fan fears to seize nearly absolute power.

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Covid and the Escalation of Medical Tyranny

2020-10-15

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2020-10-15

Audio Mises Wire
Covid has exposed how easy it is for government to weaponize healthcare. How long will the doctor-patient relationship remain sacred?

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The Second Act Will Be Worse Than the First: Lockdowns Are Not the Answer

2020-10-14

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2020-10-14

Audio Mises Wire
Given the overt hostility that progressives have toward private enterprise in the first place, politicians will take shutdown-caused shortages and empty shelves as “proof” that private enterprise has failed.

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