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Escaping Paternalism

2020-12-10

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2020-12-10

Some economists, such as the 2017 Nobel Laureate Richard Thaler and his colleague Cass Sunstein, have proposed an unusual justification for government interference with people’s choices. They do not intend, they say, to override the preferences that people have. They don’t want to tell people what they “should” want, according to an external standard that people don’t accept.

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Climate Change Policy Isn’t Worth Its High Cost

2020-12-09

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2020-12-09

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In most economies, inventories are valued at market prices, while in China they are valued by the authorities and adjusted later. This is just one of many ways China manipulates GDP data.

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Introduction to the Entrepreneurship Special Issue

2020-12-09

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2020-12-09

The Austrian school of economics has been all but left by the wayside in economics (e.g., Backhouse 2000). This fate, shared with all “heterodox” approaches that do not fully comply with mainstream dogma, means Austrian theory is at best discounted by other economists. More often, and typically, it is forgotten and a relic of the past.

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Murray N. Rothbard: Der freie Markt. Ein Segen, kein Fluch (Mises Karma 59)

2020-12-07

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Ein Auszug aus dem Kapitel „Back to the Jungle?“ aus dem Buch „Man, Economy, and State“ aus dem Jahre 1962 von Murray N. Rothbard. Aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Vincent Steinberg.

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Why GOP Loyalists and Candidates Keep Moving Left | Ryan McMaken

2020-12-07

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Unless the Left's opponents focus on changing voters' ideological drift to the left, candidates who want to actually win elections will have to keep moving left also.

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Why Commies Hate Your Thanksgiving Dinner

2020-12-04

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2020-12-04

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In 1923 Lenin released a propaganda pamphlet titled Down with the Private Kitchen. It explained how private dinners with one's family are reactionary, bourgeois, and generally something requiring total destruction.

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Double Your Gift Today!

2020-12-03

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2020-12-03

Dr. Gary Schlarbaum, one of our generous supporters, has again offered to match all donations received through December 7. That means your $10 donation becomes $20, your $25 donation becomes $50, and so on.

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When Governments Confiscate Wealth to Fund Government Programs

2020-12-02

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2020-12-02

The entrepreneurs try to undertake only such projects as appear to promise profits. This means that they endeavor to use the scarce means of production in such a way that the most urgent needs will be satisfied first, and that no part of capital and labor will be devoted to the satisfaction of less urgent needs as long as a more urgent need, for whose satisfaction they could be used, goes unsatisfied.

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Why Commies Hate Your Thanksgiving Dinner | Ryan McMaken

2020-12-02

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In 1923 Lenin released a propaganda pamphlet titled *Down with the Private Kitchen*. It explained how private dinners with one's family are reactionary, bourgeois, and generally something requiring total destruction.

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In October, Money Supply Growth Remained Near All-Time Highs

2020-12-02

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2020-12-02

M2 and TMS/Rothbard-Salerno Measure, 1998-2019
In October, money supply growth fell slightly from September's all-time high, although growth still remains at levels that would have been considered outlandish just eight months ago. October's easing in money-supply growth comes after eight months of record-breaking growth in the US which came in the wake of unprecedented quantitative easing, central bank asset purchases, and various stimulus packages.

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Covid Is Just the Latest Excuse for Canada’s Politicians to Violate the Constitution

2020-11-30

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2020-11-30

In terms of their widespread application and rapid implementation, covid-19 policies have been the most egregious violations of Canada’s constitution, ever. But my opinion doesn’t matter, because judges are the only people allowed to interpret the constitution—a convenient arrangement for the government.

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Ramon Ray’s Entrepreneurial Communities

2020-11-29

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2020-11-29

“Small business” is just a government classification. Entrepreneurial businesses serving well-defined communities via creative specialization exhibit enormous economic productivity, energy and dynamism. Such businesses can not be defined quantitatively as small, medium or large. They’re defined by their qualitative impact on their customers’ lives. 

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2021 Would Be a Great Time to Audit the Fed

2020-11-28

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2020-11-28

Gone are the days of the Federal Reserve hiding in the shadows. Now it’s a woke central bank fighting for climate and racial justice. Progressives must not fall for this but instead team up with the populist right to audit the Fed and demand transparency.

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Inflation and the French Revolution: The Story of a Monetary Catastrophe

2020-11-27

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2020-11-27

As in so much else, the French revolutionary regime (1789–94) was the precursor of the centralized, totalitarian, managerial, pseudo-democratic despotisms that now reign over the West. It is also reminder that mass democracy and inflation go together, as surely as thunder and lightning. Let us revisit the Revolution, from a free-market, hard-money perspective.

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The Dystopian “Fourth Industrial Revolution” Will Be Very Different from the First One

2020-11-26

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2020-11-26

Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum has big plans for a "sustainable" future. Most of it involves the destruction of markets and basic human rights.

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Living with Loss in Virgil’s Aeneid with Dr. Andrew Moran

2020-11-26

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Virgil’s Aeneid, the great origin story of the Roman Empire, is a poem about coping with loss. How do you weave something new from the memories of what has passed away? How do you chart a new course when you leave everything you've ever known behind?

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What Chile’s Vote to Change Its Constitution Means for Its Future

2020-11-26

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2020-11-26

On October 25, 2020, 78 percent of Chilean voters went to the ballot box to approve rewriting the country’s constitution, largely viewed as Latin America’s most stable constitution.

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The Evil of American Exceptionalism

2020-11-25

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2020-11-25

Audio Mises Wire
According to Anne Applebaum, those who deny American “exceptionalism,” that is to say, global crusading for “democracy,” are dangerous extremists.

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The United Nations and the Origins of “The Great Reset”

2020-11-25

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2020-11-25

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The United Nations has been the key institution in setting the stage for a global "Great Reset" devoted to global management of human society and of markets.

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Kapitalismus Themen Abend beim Koenisch mit Prof.Dr.Polleit.

2020-11-24

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Heute Abend habe ich einen ganz besonderen Gast live bei mir im Stream! Prof.Dr. Thorsten Polleit wird heute abend live bei mir im Stream zu Gast sein und über sein neues Buch "Der Antikapitalist - Ein Weltverbesserer, der keiner ist" sprechen.

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