Category Archive: 6b) Austrian Economics

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The Fight against the Left Is an Ideological One

2024-12-11

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2024-12-11

Unhumans: The Secret History of Communist Revolutions (and How to Crush Them) by Jack Posobiec and Joshua Lisec. Skyhorse Publishing, 2024; 258 pp.With their profoundly mediocre new book Unhumans: the Secret History of Communist Revolutions, Jack Posobiec and Joshua Lisec inadvertently illustrate some of the reasons why conservatives so often fail to counter the ideological victories of the Left. Like so many conservative activists before them,...

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What Modern Economists Can Learn from the Austrian School of Economics

2024-12-11

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2024-12-11

The Austrian School of Economics represents a heterodox methodological approach to economics that significantly differs from the orthodox teachings represented by mainstream economics. The Austrian School’s approach is multidisciplinary, comprising not only economists but also historians, sociologists, jurists, and philosophers who aim to explain social phenomena stemming from human action, which serves as the fundamental pillar of the school....

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There Is No Right to a Minimum Wage

2024-12-11

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2024-12-11

One of the most popular economic fallacies of our time is the belief that the absence of a minimum wage would lead to limitless exploitation of employees in the economy. Minimum wage legislation prevents employees from being hired at pay rates below the mandated amount. Proponents of minimum wage laws claim that not having a minimum wage would lead to employees being paid very little for the amount of work they do. They also claim that everyone...

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From the Editor—November / December 2024

2024-12-11

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2024-12-11

Another national election has come and gone, and like many of our readers, I think the less awful candidate won. After all, a victory for Kamala Harris was likely to be interpreted as an endorsement of the status quo and a “mandate” for more of the same.Unfortunately, though, opposition to the status quo is not the same thing as support for peace, freedom, or free markets. Dissatisfaction with the regime is good, but it’s not enough. We will see...

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CÓMO PROTEGERSE DE LA DESTRUCCIÓN MONETARIA

2024-12-10

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Cowboy Cartels and Drug-War Inanity

2024-12-10

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2024-12-10

Having watched the great drug-war Netflix documentaries Narcos and Narcos Mexico and the excellent drug-war drama La Reina del Sur, I wasn’t too interested in watching another drug-war-related series. But when I realized that the Apple TV+ documentary “Cowboy Cartel” revolved around my hometown of Laredo, Texas, where I lived almost half my life and practiced law for 8 years, I couldn’t resist watching it.

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Progressivism and the Murder of a Health Insurance CEO

2024-12-10

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2024-12-10

Last week, UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot to death on a New York City sidewalk in what was clearly a thoroughly planned-out attack. Over the next few days, as authorities hunted for the killer, online progressives did not try hard to hide their delight that a millionaire health insurance executive like Thompson was killed.Social media was flooded with posts and videos—with different ranges of subtlety—suggesting that Thompson, at the...

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Wie sicher ist deine Lebensversicherung? #thorstenwittmann #lebensversicherung #finanzwissen

2024-12-10

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Book Review: The Age of Debt Bubbles

2024-12-10

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2024-12-10

The Age of Debt Bubbles: An Analysis of Debt Crises, Asset Bubbles and Monetary Policy (2024). (ed. Max Rangeley).In this series of Professional Practice in Governance and Professional Organizations by Springer—the most prestigious academic publisher in Europe, if not the world—editor Max Rangeley has enlisted actual practitioners to explain how the “Mother of All Debt Bubbles” has been created, its danger to our financial and monetary system, and...

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Visit the Mises Institute’s Table at AmericaFest 2024

2024-12-10

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2024-12-10

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. 

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America’s Disastrous and Endless Meddling in Asia

2024-12-10

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2024-12-10

The “loss of China” to communism in 1949 was a pivotal moment in American foreign policy, for the fall of the Nationalist government (Kuomintang, KMT) led by Chiang Kai-shek to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) under Mao Zedong marked a significant shift in the geopolitical landscape of Asia.

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Report: 2025’s Best and Worst US States for Sound Money

2024-12-10

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2024-12-10

The newly-released 2025 Sound Money Index has identified Wyoming, South Dakota, and Alaska as the states with the most favorable policies toward constitutional sound money, while Vermont, Maine, and California take the most hostile stances.Released annually by the Sound Money Defense League and Money Metals Exchange, the Sound Money Index is a comprehensive scorecard evaluating how each US state promotes or impedes sound money policies.

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CÓMO PREPARARNOS PARA 2025 EN BOLSA Y MERCADOS

2024-12-09

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#Economía #MercadosFinancieros #Política #Inflación #Inversiones #Oro #Socialismo #Dolar #Finanzas

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ÉXITO ÉPICO DEL PRIMER AÑO DE MILEI

2024-12-09

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Un gran año para Argentina gracias a las políticas de Milei. Reducción de inflación, pobreza, y riesgo país.

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Critical Race Theory and Racial Polylogism

2024-12-09

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2024-12-09

Many people are familiar with the divisive concepts of Critical Race Theory (CRT). The best-known examples are the notion of “white privilege” and the redefinition of racism as “power plus privilege.”

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The Knudsen Mystery in the Military’s Fraudulent JFK Autopsy

2024-12-09

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2024-12-09

After I saw Oliver Stone’s movie JFK, which posited that the JFK assassination was a highly sophisticated regime-change operation on the part of the U.S. national-security establishment, I read a multitude of books along those lines.

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Get Your Free Booklet by Tom DiLorenzo!

2024-12-09

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2024-12-09

If there’s one thing the mainstream hates, it’s for you to learn anything that goes against the official version of history:World War II spending ended the Great Depression. The US was founded as a democracy.

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EUROPA ESTÁ SABOTEANDO EL FUTURO DE LA TECNOLOGÍA

2024-12-09

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The Neocons and State of Israel Finally Get Their Regime Change in Syria

2024-12-09

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2024-12-09

In late November, the seemingly dormant civil war in Syria reignited and Syrian rebel groups began a new drive across western Syria. At first, the rebels captured Aleppo and Hama, and then moved on to the capital Damascus, finally toppling the Assad regime. The fall of the Assad regime—the last secular Arab regime—represents a victory for Islamist, terrorist insurgents and their allies. These terrorists’ allies, most especially the US and the State...

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The Neocons and Zionists Finally Get Their Regime Change in Syria

2024-12-09

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2024-12-09

In late November, the seemingly dormant civil war in Syria reignited and Syrian rebel groups began a new drive across western Syria. At first, the rebels captured Aleppo and Hama, and then moved on to the capital Damascus, finally toppling the Assad regime. 

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