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Nik Bonitto:Why he choose to play college football for Oklahoma Sooners, Oklahoma vs Texas Rivalry,

2022-07-19

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In segment two Nik goves out Advice to young football players looking to make their big decision for what college they want to play for. He talks about his best games at Oklahoma and their Rivalry vs Texas

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Covid-19 and the Continuing Erosion of Private Property Rights

2022-07-19

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2022-07-19

Even though the downhill trajectory we've seen over the last decades in terms of property rights is bad enough, nothing could have ever prepared us for what the covid-19 crisis would bring. Even those of us who have read enough history to know that there's really no line that the state will not cross in its fervent pursuit of absolute power were sincerely surprised.

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How the World Embraced Nationalism, and Why It’s Not Going Away Soon

2022-07-19

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2022-07-19

Perhaps one of the more astute observers of Russian foreign policy in recent decades has been John Mearsheimer at the University of Chicago. He has spent years warning against US-led NATO enlargement as a tactic that would provoke conflict with the Russian regime. Moreover, Mearsheimer has sought to explain why this conflict exists at all.

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Nik Bonitto: How playing at Nations top HS St.Thomas Aquinas prepped him for college (part 1)

2022-07-18

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Denver Broncos Rookie LB Nik Bonitto Talks about how he started playing football for fun and became more serious when he landed at the nation's top high school football team and received Division 1 offers.

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If Government Can Take from One Group, It Can and Will Take from Everyone

2022-07-18

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2022-07-18

It wouldn't be an exaggeration to argue that private property rights, as understood by classic liberal thinkers, by those who embrace Austrian economic theory, and by all members of an enlightened society, are not only the cornerstone, but also the last defense of human civilization and the Western way of life in particular.

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The Fed Cannot Go Bankrupt; However, It Can Bankrupt the Country

2022-07-18

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2022-07-18

A recent essay on the Mises Wire triggered quite a bit of discussion among a group of Austrian school economists. Paul H. Kupiec and Alex J. Pollock's "Who Owns Federal Reserve Losses and How Will They Impact Monetary Policy?"

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Inflation Hits 9.1 Percent after Months of Empty Talk at the Fed

2022-07-17

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2022-07-17

The US Bureau of Labor statistics released new Consumer Price Index inflation estimates this morning, and the official numbers for June 2022 show that price inflation has risen to 9.1 percent year over year. That's the biggest number since November 1981, when the price growth measure hit 9.6 percent year over year.

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Turns Out the Elites Like the Administrative State Better than Democracy

2022-07-17

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2022-07-17

If there is a mantra among progressive American political and media elites, it would be “our democracy,” usually preceded by what they believe to be a threat from the Right. For example, progressives deemed the recent reversal of Roe “a threat to our democracy” because it removed laws regulating abortion from Supreme Court jurisdiction and returned the issue to democratically elected legislatures.

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Like the Old McCarthyism, the New McCarthyism Targets Russia

2022-07-16

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2022-07-16

In January 1956, the iconoclastic leftist American poet Allen Ginsberg wrote “America,” a prose poem that laments the state of the country and the poet’s place in it.

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The Industrial Revolution and the West Indies: Did the Colonies Spark Progress in the Metropole?

2022-07-16

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2022-07-16

There is a renewed interest in the West Indian colonies' relevance to the British industrial revolution and the subsequent economic transformations that substantially altered Western society's fortunes.

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How Much Did the US Government Pressure Twitter to Ban Alex Berenson?

2022-07-14

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2022-07-14

Nearly a year ago, former New York Times Journalist Alex Berenson was permanently banned from Twitter for writing the following lines about the Covid shot: “It doesn’t stop infection. Or transmission. Don’t think of it as a vaccine.

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Episode 4: Doug French – Family Business Thriving in Home Building and Innovation

2022-07-13

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Welcome to Episode 4 of Innovation Matters! Where we take a deep dive into some of the latest endeavours of today's innovators. Host Korok Ray introduces and welcomes Doug French, CEO of Stylecraft Builders, a home building company based out of Central Texas.

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More than Sixty Years after “Liberation,” Cuba Is a Communist Slave State

2022-07-13

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2022-07-13

In his book Anarchy, State, and Utopia, Robert Nozick has a chapter named "The Tale of the Slave" in which he explains the nine phases from the most restrictive to more liberating states of slavery. He writes that even though enslaved people have certain forms of self-rule, they are still enslaved. He asks: "Which transition from case 1 to case 9 made it no longer the tale of a slave?"

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War Spending Gives MMTers and the Left a Strong Talking Point

2022-07-13

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2022-07-13

Audio Mises Wire
When conservatives applaud unlimited war spending, they not only harm our economy and body politic, but they give the Left a powerful talking point.

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SoFlaa: Early Escuelita, travel experiences to many countries, 5x award winning docu-series, la jama

2022-07-12

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This is the full podcast release of director and filmmaker Solflaa, you can listen to him discuss his early escuelita as a filmmaker, his travel experiences to Africa, Japan, Brazil, and his 5x award-winning Docu-series "never too late" based on Uly "monster Diaz" and la Jama tv and the future of the brand and collaborations. FIYE show instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fiye.show/ Soflaa...

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The Epistemological Case for Capitalism

2022-07-12

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2022-07-12

[This article is excerpted from chapter 21 of Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism.] In the early 1950s, Mises's NYU seminar dealt increasingly with epistemological questions. As he said to Ludwig Lachmann, he felt that the analysis of epistemological problems would be the number one task in the social sciences in the coming years.

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Rising Interest Rates May Blow Up the Federal Budget

2022-07-12

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2022-07-12

Audio Mises Wire
Congress enjoys exorbitant political privilege in the form of cheap deficit spending—but it may soon come to an end.

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Inflation IS Money Supply Growth, Not Prices Denominated in Money

2022-07-11

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2022-07-11

In the recent Wall Street Journal article “Inflation Surge Earns Monetarism Another Look,” Greg Ip writes that a recent surge in inflation is not likely to bring authorities to reembrace monetarism. According to Ip, money supply had a poor record of predicting US inflation because of conceptual and definitional problems that haven’t gone away.

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Nine Ways Debt and Deficit Spending Severely Harm African Societies

2022-07-11

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2022-07-11

Systemic debt and deficit spending are intrinsic features of today's economic system. Unlike classical economics, where markets play the leading role and governments the supporting one, the existing economic model, driven by Keynesian theory, has inverted the roles.

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When We Started the Idea of Health Insurance & Jeff Deist’s Medical Model with Shawn & Janet Needham

2022-07-11

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On this clip of Health Solutions, Shawn & Janet Needham RPh talk to Jeff Deist about his medical model and when we started the idea of health insurance. Human natures tells us that people are more likely to consume more free medicine than they might need.

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