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Understanding Your Banking Direct Debit Card: A Comprehensive Guide

2024-09-23

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2024-09-23

In today's fast-paced world, convenience and efficiency are paramount, especially when it comes to managing our finances. Gone are the days of carrying wads of cash or meticulously writing checks for every purchase.

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Past Tense—The Homeless Problem in Star Trek DS9

2024-09-23

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2024-09-23

The third Star Trek series—Deep Space 9—is set on a distant space station-city. The producers had to be creative with the scripts because they are not visiting “strange, new worlds” all the time. In season 3, episodes 11 and 12, titled “Past Tense” they dealt with—thirty years ago in the mid-1990s, mind you—with the US homeless problem of their distant past, set in our future of late August of the year 2024.

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Israel’s Waging Genocide, Not War

2024-09-23

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2024-09-23

If it is portrayed as a war crime; genocide—the methodical, malicious murder of the many—can be dismissed as incidental to battle; a mere case of, “Oops, bad things happen in war.” You hear the last phrase all the time from Israel’s supporters, as they gush their enthusiasm for the state’s crimes.

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Henri Bergson: The Philosopher of Life and Creative Evolution

2024-09-23

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2024-09-23

Henri Bergson (1859–1941) was a towering figure in the intellectual world of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in Paris in 1859, Bergson became one of the most celebrated philosophers of his time, known for his innovative ideas on time, consciousness, and the nature of life itself.

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Donate $5, Get Rothbard’s Anatomy of the State book!

2024-09-22

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2024-09-22

The Mises Institute champions sound economics, individual freedom, and peace. It does so through the promotion, distribution, and extension of the monumental work of economists Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard, and Henry Hazlitt, and other advocates of the free market.Likewise, because of these commitments, the Mises Institute promotes industrious production, peaceful social cooperation, and voluntary exchange.The Mises Institute is proud to...

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Three Cheers for Mises

2024-09-22

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2024-09-22

My Gift is Doubled Today. I Want to Donate!The intellectual achievements of Ludwig von Mises make him one of the greatest minds in human history. His contributions to Austrian economics inspired new generations of scholars, from Murray Rothbard and F.A. Hayek to current leaders like Joe Salerno, Ron Paul, Patrick Newman, and Tom Woods. He is the most powerful intellectual opponent to socialism the world has ever known, and his work on money and...

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Double Your Gift

2024-09-22

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2024-09-22

My Gift is Doubled Today. I Want to Donate!The Mises Institute sends a big THANK YOU to everyone who already donated to our Fall Campaign this week. Your support helps us continue to make the sound economic principles of Mises, Rothbard, Hazlitt, and Hayek free to the world at a time when they are needed more than ever.If you haven’t had time to donate, please do so today. Hunter Lewis, a generous donor and author of numerous books, is passionate...

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Bringing the Truth

2024-09-22

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2024-09-22

Who are they? People just like you. People who happen to care deeply about human liberty and human flourishing. People who care about real economics. People who oppose state power, central banks, and war. People who care about truth and honest history.They come from all walks of life. Some give $20, some give more. But they are all people like you, people who understand the threat statism poses to our world.The Mises Institute is not funded by...

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Our Fall Campaign Starts Today!

2024-09-22

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2024-09-22

The mission of the Mises Institute is simple. We want to spread the ideas of Ludwig von Mises and the scholars he inspired. Ideas that are vital for a free and prosperous civilization.We do this through our student programs, our popular articles, our podcasts, our vast library of free downloadable books, and our animated videos for beginners.

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Our Fall Campaign Week is Under Way!

2024-09-22

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2024-09-22

The mission of the Mises Institute is simple. We want to spread the ideas of Ludwig von Mises and the scholars he inspired. Ideas that are vital for a free and prosperous civilization.We do this through our student programs, our popular articles, our podcasts, our vast library of free downloadable books, and our animated videos for beginners.

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LA FED BAJA TIPOS PARA SALVAR AL GOBIERNO DE HARRIS

2024-09-22

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La Reserva Federal baja los tipos 50 pb diciendo que la economía va bien, pero todo pinta peor de lo que parece. 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...

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Has “Neo-Liberalism” Failed in the United States?

2024-09-21

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2024-09-21

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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DESASTRE TOTAL EN LA EUROZONA Y LA ESPERANZA DE ARGENTINA

2024-09-21

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Los datos económicos de la UE son preocupantes; altos estímulos y barreras al crecimiento. La solución es priorizar empresas y ciudadanos, como hace Argentina. 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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Policing the Narrative

2024-09-21

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2024-09-21

The Deep State has struck again. The Biden Administration’s intrepid Department of Justice (DOJ), ever-vigilant in its quest for Russian bogeymen, has proudly announced the seizure of 32 internet domains. Their purported crime? Daring to challenge the regime’s approved narratives.According to the allegations, Russian entities such as Social Design Agency (SDA), Structura National Technology, and ANO Dialog operated these domains under the guidance...

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Warren Buffett, Dave Ramsey, and John Maynard Keynes Are Wrong!

2024-09-21

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2024-09-21

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 State’s Cargo Cult Economics

2024-09-21

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2024-09-21

In the wake of World War II, an interesting phenomenon began to build up in the Malenesians, the island chains ranging to the southwest from Guinea to Fiji. Visiting anthropologists observed the primitive local residents were building unusual structures. They would flatten the ground in long strips, build wooden towers and construct strange bird idols.The reason they were doing this was, during the war, when Japanese and American soldiers were...

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Tariffs, Protectionism, and Why Borders Matter

2024-09-21

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2024-09-21

As Democrats and Republicans both express support for tariffs, the economic implications of protectionist policies are once again at the forefront of public debate. Both parties differ on the size of their proposed tariffs, but the New York Times reports that “both Democrats and Republicans are expressing support for tariffs to protect American industry, reversing decades of trade thinking in Washington.” Proposals to impose tariffs on imports from...

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EL PLAN DE SÁNCHEZ PARA CENSURAR A LOS MEDIOS

2024-09-20

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Sánchez lanza su "plan de acción por la democracia" para censurar la prensa independiente. 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...

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The Trump Campaign Tries to Buy Votes by Subsidizing IVF

2024-09-20

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2024-09-20

With Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris proposing costly new interventionist schemes and co-opting Republican talking points in order to neutralize the unpopularity of rising prices among swing voters, her Republican opponent, Donald Trump, has responded by stealing a page from the Democrat state-building playbook. He has raised the bidding for votes with a preposterous new interventionist proposal of his own—a plan to boost fertility...

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Three Contradictions in Krugman’s Take on the Rate Cuts

2024-09-20

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2024-09-20

Paul Krugman’s latest column is all over the place. He was trying to provide commentary on the Fed’s half-point cut in the Federal Funds Rate, but he was juggling too many contradictory narratives.The contradictions start at the beginning. The Fed’s decision “was of minimal importance” but also a “momentous move.” It wasn’t important because it just a small change in the overnight interbank interest rate. It was very important because of its effect...

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