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Yesterday · length unknown
The Crony Capitalists Who Financed the Bolshevik Revolution
Lenin wrote that the capitalists would provide the rope by which they would hang themselves. That certainly seems to be the case with the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, which received strong financial help from the center of crony capitalism itself: Wall Street. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/crony-capitalists-who-financed-bolshevik-revolution
Tuesday · length unknown
The AI "Threat" is Replacing Covid and "Global Warming"
Get ready to hear a lot about how we need government regulation to ensure that only state-approved, expensive, crony "capitalist" firms are allowed to develop AI. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/ai-threat-replacing-covid-and-global-warming
Tuesday · length unknown
Understanding Entrepreneurship Has Major Implications for Economic Analysis
By ignoring the entrepreneur, mainstream economists are also removing a vital part of economics theory. It is like designing a car and leaving out the engine. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/understanding-entrepreneurship-has-major-implications-economic-analysis
Monday · length unknown
Foreign Policy Gnosticism: The Appeal to the Black Box of “Our Leaders Know More”
Ignorance is treated as a reason to trust the state rather than a reason to withhold judgment about its exercise of coercion. To assume that the state’s unknown information is correct and justifying is therefore to err on the side of violence. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/foreign-policy-gnosticism-appeal-black-box-our-leaders-know-more
Friday · length unknown
Times Change, Principles Don't
What followed 9/11 was 25 years of systematic destruction of American liberties, and the final destruction of the Bill of Rights, all in the name of "safety" and "patriotism." Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/times-change-principles-dont
September 10 · length unknown
College Sports, LSU, and Judge Shopping: Anarcho-Tyranny Continues
The drama continues in college sports—not on the field, but in the courtrooms—thanks to judges applying antitrust law that does not permit the NCAA to be able to enforce its own rules. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/college-sports-lsu-and-judge-shopping-anarcho-tyranny-continues
September 8 · length unknown
The Real Elites vs. The Ruling Elites
Those who become "elites" through the initiation of violence, and through the looting of others, have always been frauds and imposters. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/real-elites-vs-ruling-elites
September 4 · length unknown
MMT and the Price Controls That Never Happened
Without established exchange-ratios between a currency and goods, a fiat-token cannot meaningfully serve as a unit of account because it has no referent. The only way a state could meaningfully ground such a fiat-token by political decree would be through comprehensive price controls. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/mmt-and-price-controls-never-happened
September 3 · length unknown
The Capture of the Constitution: How Public Sector Unions Exploited Free Speech to Suppress Black Upward Mobility
Public employee unions have used their built-in advantages to damage this country’s political economy and work hardships on taxpayers. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/capture-constitution-how-public-sector-unions-exploited-free-speech-suppress-black-upward-mobility
September 2 · length unknown
No, Flock Is Not Really a Private Company
The term that best describes the CEO of the "private" company Flock is "parasite" or "plutocrat" or "welfare queen" because his "business model" is simply finding ways to exploit the taxpayers. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/no-flock-not-really-private-company
September 2 · length unknown
The Ethical Foundations of the Just War Doctrine
Can fighting a war ever be just? Murray Rothbard dealt with that question and, of course, had some definitive answers. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/ethical-foundations-just-war-doctrine
September 1 · length unknown
Credit Out of “Thin Air” Brings Wealth Destruction
Federal Reserve policy has been to expand credit out of nothing without regard for the real damage it does to the economy. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/credit-out-thin-air-brings-wealth-destruction
September 1 · length unknown
The High Cost of the Automated Flock-Camera Surveillance State
The future of Flock cameras: left the house during a pandemic lockdown? Expect a summons in the mail. Exceeding your "carbon footprint" by driving too much? Expect a ticket in the mail. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/high-cost-automated-flock-camera-surveillance-state
August 31 · length unknown
Trump Censorship Machine Loses Again in Court
The Trump administration’s crackdown on students protesting against Israel has once again run into the law, this time in the form of a federal court ruling against the government. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/trump-censorship-machine-loses-again-court
August 31 · length unknown
The Fallacy of Stable Prices
The Federal Reserve’s fixation with “stable prices” has led to an unstable economy for the past century. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/fallacy-stable-prices
August 31 · length unknown
The Two Lineages of Liberty
The movement toward liberty has roots in two eras, neither of which saw much liberty. One lineage comes from the Enlightenment while the other emanates from ancient philosophers. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/two-lineages-liberty
August 31 · length unknown
The State Is Coming for Your Roomba
Not even your Roomba vacuum cleaner is safe from state control. Time for the state to give up all economic controls across the board. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/state-coming-your-roomba
August 28 · length unknown
Nationality: You Belong to the State
There are two types of nationality. The first, as defined by Ludwig von Mises, involves people united by common languages and customs. The second is defined by the state. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/nationality-you-belong-state
August 27 · length unknown
Three Reasons Why the French Revolution Was So Different from the American Revolution
In America, French-style violence was simply unnecessary for the revolutionaries to win, and we will never know if the Americans might have resorted to greater violence in different circumstances. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/three-reasons-why-french-revolution-was-so-different-american-revolution
August 26 · length unknown
The Wealth Tax Revival Is Repeating a Failed Experiment
California is looking to impose a new wealth tax to fleece the state's billionaires. While supporters of the tax claim it will raise more than $100 billion, if passed, it likely will crash in the same manner that wealth taxes in other countries like Sweden and Colombia have done. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/wealth-tax-revival-repeating-failed-experiment

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