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La FALACIA del GRADUALISMO

2024-04-16

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Frédéric Bastiat Was a Radical Opponent of War and Militarism

2024-04-16

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2024-04-16

Frédéric Bastiat is well known for his radical free-market positions as expressed in his still-famous book The Law and in insightful essays such as "That Which Is Seen and That Which Is Not Seen." Joseph Schumpeter called Bastiat "the most brilliant economic journalist who ever lived."

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Millennials: In Costco We Trust

2024-04-16

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2024-04-16

When the latest CPI number came in hot at 0.4% for March and the annual core CPI inflation rate held at 3.8%, Betsey Stevenson, professor of economics at the University of Michigan appearing on CNBC’s Squawk Box said nonchalantly “Three percent inflation is no big deal.”

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What Fed “Independence” Really Means

2024-04-16

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2024-04-16

A recent undercover video interview with a Fed economist by a Daily Caller reporter contains explosive revelations about the profoundly anti-democratic doings of the Fed.    In the video, Federal Reserve principal economist Aurel Hizmo, a speech writer for Fed Chair Jerome Powell, reveals “classified information” about how Powell deliberately acted to undermine President Trump and expand Fed activities far beyond its legislated monetary policy...

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FISA Exchanges Real Liberty for Phantom Security

2024-04-16

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2024-04-16

House Speaker Mike Johnson betrayed liberty and the Constitution by making a full-court press to get a “clean” reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) Act through the House.

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Artificial Intelligence and Irrational Fears

2024-04-16

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2024-04-16

Where’s Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead? Seriously, what list of the greatest rock guitarists of all time would not—could not—include him? Sure, I know the internet article was just some teaser to get me to mindlessly click through an ad-laden list.

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How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy

2024-04-16

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2024-04-16

There is little doubt that John Mearsheimer is one of the most prominent, and controversial, thinkers in the field of international relations alive today.

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Seditious Conspiracy: A Fake Crime and a Danger to Free Speech

2024-04-16

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2024-04-16

"Over the past three years, the word sedition has again become popular among regime agents and their friends in the media. It's not the first time the word has been frequently used. In the American context, it's frequently employed whenever the ruling class wishes us to become hysterical about some real and imagined enemy, both domestic and foreign."This event was co-hosted by the Mises Institute and the Ron Paul Institute, and recorded...

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Is Private Property Simply a Racial or Social Construct?

2024-04-16

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2024-04-16

In a 1964 article in the Yale Law Journal titled The New Property Charles Reich argued that “government largesse” is an increasingly important source of wealth and should thus be understood and regulated as a new form of property. Reich argued that “Property is a legal institution, the essence of which is the creation and protection of certain private rights in wealth of any kind” and that “Property is not a natural right but a deliberate...

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¿POR QUÉ PERÚ ESTÁ AL BORDE DEL COLAPSO? INESTABILIDAD POLÍTICA ahuyenta la INVERSIÓN.

2024-04-15

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La inestabilidad #política en #Perú daña la #economía y ahuyenta la #inversión. A pesar de oportunidades, el país pierde crecimiento y estabilidad. 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 -...

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Required Reading: 25th Anniversary Rothbard Graduate Seminar

2024-04-15

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2024-04-15

Listed and linked below are the readings that all students must complete before attending RGS. 

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Required Reading: 25th Anniversary Rothbard Graduate Seminar

2024-04-15

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2024-04-15

Listed and linked below are the readings that all students must complete before attending RGS. All materials are available on Mises.org free of charge, and most readings are available in multiple formats (e.g., PDF, ePub, HTML, audio). Complimentary physical copies of the readings will be available to attendees upon arrival at RGS. Physical copies can be mailed in advance to U.S. addresses upon request by emailing [email protected]...

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End the Drug War in Oregon, Both State and Federal

2024-04-15

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2024-04-15

Three years ago, in a citizen’s initiation approved by 3/4 of voters, Oregon decriminalized the possession of small amounts of illicit drugs. Last month, the Oregon governor signed into law a measure that undid what the people of Oregon had decided.

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El PESO ARGENTINO es una MONEDA FALLIDA

2024-04-15

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Human Action on Its 75th Anniversary Helps Us Understand How Statism Has Decimated Argentina

2024-04-15

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2024-04-15

The seventy-fifth anniversary of Ludwig von Mises’s Human Action invites us to ponder on Mises’s scholarly achievements and how the economic mainstream has not yet caught up to his advances in economics. Like Jesus Huerta de Soto points out in his preliminary study to the Spanish version of the thirteenth edition of Human Action: few are the treatises on the side of the mainstream that even try to match what Mises does in Human Action.

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How Statism Destroyed Argentina

2024-04-15

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2024-04-15

The seventy-fifth anniversary of Ludwig von Mises’s Human Action invites us to ponder on Mises’s scholarly achievements and how the economic mainstream has not yet caught up to his advances in economics. Like Jesus Huerta de Soto points out in his preliminary study to the Spanish version of the thirteenth edition of Human Action: few are the treatises on the side of the mainstream that even try to match what Mises does in Human Action.Mises’s work...

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Welcome and Opening Remarks

2024-04-15

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2024-04-15

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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“Don’t Do Something! Just Stand There!”

2024-04-15

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2024-04-15

The city of San Antonio’s Status on Poverty Report was released recently, and the response was predictable. “I just want . . . some sort of an action plan.” Council should “better direct” taxpayer dollars “toward helping all San Antonians thrive.”If officials had a decent grasp of history, they’d know the likely outcomes from such efforts: more of the same.Poverty is the natural, initial state. Society wasn’t just born into affluence; it had to be...

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The War on Poverty Makes Poverty Worse

2024-04-15

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2024-04-15

The city of San Antonio’s Status on Poverty Report was released recently, and the response was predictable. “I just want . . . some sort of an action plan.” Council should “better direct” taxpayer dollars “toward helping all San Antonians thrive.”If officials had a decent grasp of history, they’d know the likely outcomes from such efforts: more of the same.Poverty is the natural, initial state. Society wasn’t just born into affluence; it had to be...

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Renato Moicano: “If You Care About Your…Country, Read Ludwig von Mises.”

2024-04-14

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2024-04-14

Last night, Brazilian fighter Renato Moicano went viral after his victory over JalinTurner at UFC 300, giving a shout-out to Ludwig von Mises himself.'I love America, I love the Constitution...I want to carry...guns. I love private property. Let If you something. If you care about your...country, read Ludwig von Mises and the six lessons of the Austrian economic school.The full clip is available here, with some colorful adult language...

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