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., president of , explains what economics can and can't do with regard to morality and culture.
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It is easy to dismiss Chinese advancements in electric vehicles as the result of government subsidies, but private entrepreneurship also is playing a major role. | Mihai Macovei
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"The State is a gang of thieves writ large..." Murray Rothbard
The best primer on what the State is, what it is not, and how it maintains control:
mises.org/library/anatom
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Governments are bandits that stopped moving around. Stationary bandits. Laws don’t constrain bandits, and laws don’t constrain governments. Rather, laws are used as ad hoc justification for banditry. There is no nation of laws. Governments are made of men, and so are the laws.
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As Jim Grant says, the Fed has a dual mandate: arsonist and fireman. At arsonist stage it rains trillions on Wall Street. At fireman stage it crushes Main Street. We are very much at fireman stage.
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On the latest #HAPod, joins for a look at the hottest political topic of the day: national divorce. This is a spirited discussion of the politics, economics, and mechanics of how America might break up.
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White House Press Secretary Karine Jean Pierre says the next Fed Chair will be hired based on how diverse they are, not strictly on their experience with monetary policy. So, good luck with that America.
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Opponents of "national divorce" like to claim that red states would be broke without a flood of money from wealthier, productive blue states. It's not true. |
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On the latest #RothPod, and play a game and discuss this week's Twitter campaign by promoting the idea of #NationalDivorce. Is Marjorie Taylor Greene guilty of unforgivable high treason? What do "Very Serious People" say?
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"The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster." - Ludwig von
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Starting my journey from England to Tampa, FL to attend the "How to Think about the Economy” @mises seminar this Saturday. Can’t wait to hear the discussions and enjoy much better weather. @PerBylund @jeffdeist @ThoBishop
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President Biden's recent call to "buy American" is doomed to failure, just like all other protectionist schemes. | Daniel Moule
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In his SOTU speech, President Joe Biden declared his would be a protectionist administration. Instead of cheering, Congress should have booed. | Gary Galles
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"The essence of a credit-expansion boom is not overinvestment, but investment in wrong lines, i.e., malinvestment."
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Tonight at 7 PM ET
I'm joined by , president of , for a discussion on the role, if any, of capitalism in Western decline.
We'll discuss woke capital, explore whether capitalism causes wokeness and open borders, and much more!
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"Woke" is not "fighting racism," no matter how it is phrased. It is about undermining a society and its economy, declaring our social and economic institutions as illegitimate. |
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YouTube removed a video when Tom tried to point this out. The institute got a strike on our YouTube page. talks about it here: mises.org/power-market/y
But all MSM and media outlets were complicit in stopping people like Tom from speaking the truth.
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3 years too late, the New York Times admits “The Mask Mandates Did Nothing.” Rand was right about masks, natural immunity, NIH funding of GOF, and the risk of vaccine-induced myocarditis. Looks like the real “bloviator of misinformation” was you and your network, @brikeilarcnn
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Opponents of secession say secession is wrong if some people in the population don't want it and say they will be worse off. The American revolutionaries disagreed and seceded anyway. |
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When we see real bipartisan action in Congress, it usually is for the worst. | Gary Galles
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Join Dr. Michael Rectenwald and the Mises Institute in April to discuss "The Great Reset."
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How has Ron managed to be right so often? He is a brilliant expositor of basic Rothbardian principles about the free market and a noninterventionist foreign policy. |
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Democratic socialism—the ideology that dominates the world today—aspires to become a world state. The route toward it requires a single world currency to be created.
Can it be averted?
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In the bizarro world of student loans, someone can borrow six figures without collateral or credit history—and then demand that taxpayers cover the loan. | Kevin Van Elswyk
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Printing and raising taxes are not social policies. It is profoundly anti-social, as it destroys the middle class and makes the economy weaker. |
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Driving last night I heard interviewed on the radio and he reminded the audience that the future is unwritten, tyranny is not inevitable, and we don't have to live this way.
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With Yale economics professor Yusuke Narita suggesting mass suicide—seppuku—as the answer to Japan's rapidly aging demographics, and take a hard look at the economics and humanity of greying America.
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US Large bankruptcies in January touched the highest since 2010 🔥
No recession though ... look at something else.🧐
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Central banks worldwide already pivoting back to printing money. So much for the great retrenchment -- blink and you missed it.
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It looks like the global liquidity drain is over.
In recent months global liquidity is increasing again. #gold
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At the heart of Keynesian business cycle theory is the so-called liquidity trap. Contra Keynes, however, economies don't falter because a sudden increase in the demand for money. | Frank Shostak
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"With Yale economics professor Yusuke Narita suggesting mass suicide—seppuku—as the answer to Japan's rapidly aging demographics, and take a hard look at the economics and humanity of greying America."
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When the private sector is the enemy by Ryan McMaken
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Rest in peace, "technolibertarianism." There was a time when many believed tech entrepreneurs would usher in a new era of freedom. Unfortunately, the new tech elites are technocratic collaborators with the regime. | @RyanMcMaken
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In 1991, India's political leaders moved away from socialism, embracing markets and improving the economy. But Indian elites continue to push socialism to the detriment of the people. | Yash Dubey
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It's time to get serious about radical decentralization.
This book by is a must read for those interested in doing just that.
mises.org/library/breaki
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We need a national divorce.
We need to separate by red states and blue states and shrink the federal government.
Everyone I talk to says this.
From the sick and disgusting woke culture issues shoved down our throats to the Democrat’s traitorous America Last policies, we are… Show more
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"It's very common to have the quiet neighbor next door worth $2+ million, and they're still getting that $2K a month from younger people who are paying 15% of their paycheck to support this transfer program." #HAPod
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People are innovative—if government doesn't get in the way. Entrepreneurs in developing countries find alternatives for people cut off from commercial banking services. |
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More than a dozen states are already moving forward on sound money bills during their 2023 legislative sessions. |
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Mises explains that inflationary policies benefit government at the expense of private savings and capital investment. It distorts the purchasing power of profits and leads to decreased production for business and increased costs for consumers.
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