According to the January report of the Consumer Price Index, price inflation increased by 0.5 percent last month. This follows a 0.1 percent increase in December. The total increase over the last 12 months is 6.4 percent. The official government statistics, which are...
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What Democrats Need to Know About War
by Keith Knight | Feb 14, 2023 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/FllJ0lKnEdg My case for pacifism, to recap, comes down to three simple premises. The first two are empirical: Premise #1: The short-run costs of war are clearly awful. [Empirical claim about immediate effects of war]. Premise #2: The long-run benefits...
No, China Is Not ‘Switching Sides’
by Ted Snider | Feb 10, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Since President Xi Jinping was re-elected as China’s leader at the Communist Party Congress on October 23, 2022, there has been a noticeable change in tone from Chinese officials towards the United States. This change in tone, coupled with Chinese restraint in their...
Searching for Economic Solutions in Game Theory
by Zack Sorenson | Feb 9, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles
The left and right-wings of economic thought spend much of their energy trying to refute each other, but an integration of both perspectives might be worth considering. The right-wing of economic thought has conclusively demonstrated that the value creating ability of...
The Missed Opportunities of the War in Ukraine
by Ted Snider | Feb 6, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Devastation has unfolded in Ukraine. As former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates say in The Washington Post, Ukraine’s “economy is in a shambles, millions of its people have fled, its infrastructure is being destroyed,...
1/27/23 Ryan McMaken on How the Fed Is Ripping Us Off
by Scott Horton | Jan 31, 2023 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Ryan McMaken of the Mises Institute joins Scott to discuss the ill effects central banking has on the country. McMaken wrote an article recently pointing out that the Federal Reserve, America’s central bank, is technically bankrupt. Scott has...
Empower the Working Class: Abolish Occupational Licensing
by Keith Knight | Jan 21, 2023 | Blog, Uncategorized
It's time to consistently apply the "my body my choice" principle. If consenting adults want to engage in economic activity, no third party should forcibly stop them. Democrats always say "voting once every two years between two politicians is how you express...
TGIF: The Economic Way of Thinking Can Save Lives
by Sheldon Richman | Jan 20, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
The Cambridge economist Joan Robinson (1903-1983) wisely said, "The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of readymade answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists." Excellent point, though I would both broaden...
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WarNotes: A Conflict Podcast Makes Landfall on Earth on Monday
Premier WarNotes Podcast episode is live Monday 18 November 2024. Ep 001 "Fixing Fight Club: The Collapse of American Military Power" Here's the premier episode of my new podcast, WarNotes: A Conflict Podcast and I am introducing the first series of 'casts I will do...
Should Everyone Be Proud of Their Culture?
Did the culture which produced the HAKA song produce beautiful buildings, great educational centers, universal access to MRI machines, telephones, great books, gay marriage rights, and emails? The left has impossible standards for white countries and no standards for...
Pentagon: 7-0 in Pristine Record of Audit Failure
Don't believe the Pentagon is capable of not only accounting for its present year's spending but the aggregate of materiel and expenditure on its books from past years. Boldly matching their record for military success, the DoD continues to cook the books it can't...
The Value of Selfishness
"The welfare school pretends not only to stand for the interests of the whole of society as against the selfish interests of profit-seeking business; it contends moreover that it takes into account the lasting secular interests of the nation as against the short-term...
Tyson vs Paul- We all Run out of Time
Netflix put on its first boxing event, it’s content was plugged from Squid Games to Cobra Kai and Mike Tyson, 58 years of age, fought Jake Paul, 27 years of age. A battle of nostalgia versus the modern celebrity culture that has used boxing well as a promotion...
Mises on Equality and Inequality
"The liberal champions of equality under the law were fully aware of the fact that men are born unequal and that it is precisely their inequality that generates social cooperation and civilization. Equality under the law was in their opinion not designed to correct...
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