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The Menace of Tariffs

2024-11-19

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2024-11-19

Donald Trump is a strong believer in protective tariffs, and this is very bad news for those of us who support the free market. In Trump’s opinion, tariffs are a great idea. Here is what he said about them in an interview last month: “Trump has proposed a 10 percent across-the-board tariff on all imports and 60 percent on goods from China. During Tuesday’s remarks, he singled out imported cars for higher trade duties, saying he would slap a100, 200...

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Freedom Does Not Mean Appointing New Taskmasters

2024-11-19

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2024-11-19

Reminder: I’ll be speaking at the JFK Lancer conference and also at the CAPA conference.  The Lancer conference is being held on November 22-24 in Dallas. The CAPA conference is now being held online. There is also another excellent JFK conference on the same weekend sponsored by the JFK Historical Group.

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Ten Lessons on US Foreign Policy from Enough Already

2024-11-19

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2024-11-19

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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If Republicans Are Against Lawfare, They Shouldn’t Have Unleashed It

2024-11-19

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2024-11-19

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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Nagel on Libertarianism and Other Things

2024-11-19

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2024-11-19

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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Answering the Confused Critics of Austrian Economics

2024-11-19

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2024-11-19

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 Birth of “Irrational Exuberance”

2024-11-19

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2024-11-19

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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Why People Pay Higher Prices for Some Goods Relative to Others

2024-11-19

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2024-11-19

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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Kamala Harris’s Price-Fixing Scheme Would Lead to Food Shortages

2024-11-19

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2024-11-19

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 US Just Escalated its Proxy War with Russia. Rothbard Explains Why that’s a Problem.

2024-11-19

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2024-11-19

This week, the people who run the Biden administration escalated tensions between Russia and the US by giving the Ukrainian regime authorization to use American-made (and presumably American-funded) ATACMS ballistic missiles against targets inside Russia itself.This significantly raises the stakes of the US-Russia conflict because it put the US in the position of directly funding and encouraging attacks on Russian territory.In response, Kremlin...

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Luxuriöse Zugfahrt durch Indien | Der Maharajas’ Express

2024-11-19

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Der Maharaja Express: Eine luxuriöse Zugfahrt durch Indiens Highlights und mein erster VLog Homepage Thorsten Wittmann: https://thorstenwittmann.com/ Klartext-E-Letter abonnieren: https://thorstenwittmann.com/klartext-yt Erlebe mit mir die faszinierende Zugfahrt im Maharaja Express durch Indien! Begleite mich auf dieser siebentägigen Reise voller unvergesslicher Momente. In meinem ersten VLog-Video: - Innenansichten des luxuriösen Zugs Palace...

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The Relevance of the Natural Sciences Methods in Economics

2024-11-18

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2024-11-18

Popular understandings of economics often attempt to incorporate the methodology of natural sciences as the supposed key to economics. Some economic experts are of the view that the methods employed by the natural sciences, such as advanced mathematics, are important tools for the assessments of historical data to establish the state of an economy.

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EL VERDADERO PROBLEMA DE LA CRISIS DE VIVIENDA EN ESPAÑA

2024-11-18

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Wie erreiche ich finanzielle Freiheit? #thorstenwittmann #finanziellefreiheit #finanziellererfolg

2024-11-18

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LA IZQUIERDA ENLOQUECE CON LOS NOMBRAMIENTOS DE TRUMP

2024-11-18

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Medios de izquierda critican, pero los republicanos prometen cambios para mejorar EE.UU. Te animo a suscribirte a mi canal y te invito a seguirme en mis redes sociales: ☑ Twitter - https://twitter.com/dlacalle ☑ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/lacalledanie ☑ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/dlacalle ☑ Página web - https://www.dlacalle.com ☑ Mis libros en Amazon - https://www.amazon.es/Daniel-Lacalle/e/B00P2I78OG ¡Un saludo!...

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Xi’s Ouroboros

2024-11-18

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Money + Housing = Families + Schools / Good Governance = Foreign Investment Check out Ed D'Agostino's full conversation with Shehzad Qazi, the managing director at China Beige Book here: -Q0

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Is America Turning Fascist?

2024-11-18

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2024-11-18

On October 25, ABC News published the results of a survey of 2,392 registered voters where 44 percent of the respondents said that Donald Trump is a fascist, while 23 percent said that Kamala Harris is a fascist.

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Yes, Senator Cruz, Elon Musk should read Mises’s Bureaucracy

2024-11-18

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2024-11-18

On his podcast “Verdict” November 13, Ted Cruz mentioned one of my favorite books by Ludwig von Mises: Bureaucracy. He mentioned it in reference to the “Department of Government Efficiency” that was also announced by President-elect Donald Trump on the same day. Cruz brings up a crucial point to the conversation surrounding this plan, pointing at Mises for getting it right. The idea lingers that this Department will make government efficient; that...

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Destroying Creative Destruction: The DMA against Innovation

2024-11-18

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2024-11-18

In the ever-evolving landscape of economic theory and policy, few concepts have been as influential and controversial as Joseph Schumpeter’s “creative destruction.” This powerful idea, which describes the process by which innovation continuously reshapes markets, challenges conventional wisdom about competition, monopolies, and the role of government intervention. As we grapple with the complexities of the digital age, the tension between creative...

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The $100 Trillion Global Debt Bomb and Financial Shock Risk.

2024-11-18

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2024-11-18

Last month, the IMF stated that “our forecasts point to an unforgiving combination of low growth and high debt, a difficult future,” emphasizing that “governments must work to reduce debt and rebuild buffers for the next shock, which will surely come, and maybe sooner than we expect.”This advice comes with a warning. At the current rate of spending, the US debt to GDP will reach 198% by 2050 even without expecting a recession. The G-7 public debt...

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