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How capitalism defeats racism

2024-08-05

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2024-08-05

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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Alexander Hamilton’s poisoned legacy

2024-08-05

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2024-08-05

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 degrowth movement is antihuman, and its advocates are fine with that

2024-08-05

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2024-08-05

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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Are apartment syndicators incompetent or crooked? The answer is yes

2024-08-05

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2024-08-05

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 U.S. military machine is unsustainable

2024-08-05

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2024-08-05

For nearly two centuries the United States has been an expansionist power. Though it was the War of 1812 when the U.S. solidified its dominion over the Americas, it was at the twilight of the Spanish-American War when the American Empire finally came of age. The first two decades of the 20th century marked America’s transition — for better or worse — into a global superpower.By the end of the First World War, the United States had solidified itself...

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MADURO CONSOLIDA su FRAUDE y el MUNDO OBSERVA ¿QUIÉN SIGUE?

2024-08-04

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El narcodictador Maduro intenta validar su nuevo fraude electoral usando las instituciones que previamente ha demolido y acaparado. 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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Does Austrian Business Cycle Theory Help the Investor?

2024-08-04

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2024-08-04

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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Central banks purchase gold to offset their own money destruction

2024-08-03

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2024-08-03

Why is the price of gold rising if the global economy is not in recession and inflation is allegedly under control? This is a question often heard in investment circles, and I will try to answer it.We must begin by clarifying the question. It is true that inflation is slowly decreasing, but we cannot say that it is under control. Let us remember that the latest CPI data in the United States was 3% annualized and that in the eurozone it is 2.6%,...

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How We Win: Advancing Liberty in Your Career

2024-08-03

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2024-08-03

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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¿ESTAMOS AL BORDE DE UN COLAPSO ECONÓMICO?

2024-08-03

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¿Nos enfrentamos a un mercado bajista o a una corrección de un mercado alcista? 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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Fed In Full Control: What Could Go Wrong?

2024-08-03

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2024-08-03

Thousands of travelers are stuck at airports this weekend due to “an outside vendor technology issue” Delta said Sunday, CNN reports. “The issue extended beyond airports, with businesses, government agencies, health and emergency services, banks, schools and universities around the world grinding to a halt or seeing services disrupted due to a flawed software update for Microsoft Windows operating systems issued by the cybersecurity firm...

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Biden’s EPA methane gas rule imposes needless environmental costs

2024-08-03

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2024-08-03

The Biden U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued new methane gas detection, repair and reporting rules in December 2023, impacting existing, new and reconstructed onshore crude oil (crude) and natural gas (ngas) production facilities. The state of Texas Railroad Commission which regulates many parts of the state’s crude and ngas industry asked the Texas Attorney General’s office to sue the Biden administration over this new rule. This new...

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The road to Serfdom: are we on the final stretch?

2024-08-03

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2024-08-03

Share this article An attempt at an analysis from the perspective of a free Swiss individual What you’re about to read is the abridged and condensed English translation of a speech I gave in Munich in November 2023. You can find the full speech, in German with English subtitles, here. It tackles the very difficult, but also very crucial, subject of individual freedom, or what is left of it these days, and it seeks to offer a constructive...

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Closing Remarks and Awards Ceremony

2024-08-03

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2024-08-03

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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Debamboozling 101: How Court Historians Turn Political Villains into Heroes

2024-08-03

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2024-08-03

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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A new war threatens Bosnia and Herzegovina

2024-08-03

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2024-08-03

While the attention of the world public is focused on the wars in Ukraine and Palestine, another region of the world is showing signs of instability. It is the Balkan region. Specifically, two strategic areas of the Balkans, which have not been permanently stabilized even after the wars of the nineties. These are Bosnia and Kosovo. However, while in Kosovo tensions are constant and limited without the possibility of a major conflict, in Bosnia and...

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Colonialism, Self-Determination, and Secession

2024-08-03

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2024-08-03

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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Hayekian liberty and the predatory state

2024-08-03

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2024-08-03

In the “Constitution of Liberty” Friedrich Hayek highlights the malleability of the word “liberty,” explaining that “in totalitarian states liberty has been suppressed in the name of liberty.” Deployed in that way, the concept of liberty could mean anything, including its very opposite: coercion. Hayek writes:“There is no limit to the sophisms by which the attractions of the word ‘liberty’ can be used to support measures which destroy individual...

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Protecting infant industries doesn’t help the economy

2024-08-03

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2024-08-03

In many developing countries, protectionism is on the rise. It promises hope that a country can build their economy from the ground up and grow into a developed economy. A common obstacle to that goal is a poor understanding of economics which often hinders the country as politicians create roadblocks on the path toward prosperity. Protectionists in developing countries often argue that their economies are not resilient enough to compete in global...

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A Tale of Four Cities

2024-08-03

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2024-08-03

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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