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17 Jan The Economic Policy Failures of the Trump Administration

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There is some bitter irony embedded in the original campaign 2016 presidential pitch to “Make America Great Again.” One looks around the country to observe catastrophe without precedent. Making sense of all the events that led to this will take years of investigation and reflection....

17 Jan Politics Won’t Fix the American Decline

Posted at 06:49h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

While it is popular and accurate to blame our societal elites for being inept, the truth is that these leaders, both political and cultural, are reflections of us. Original Article: "Politics Won't Fix the American Decline" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon. Narrated...

16 Jan What Is Fascism? It’s the System We’ve Been Living under for Decades.

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[Editor's Note: In 2011, Lew Rockwell penned this thorough explanation of what fascism really is and what must be done to combat it. Fascism, unlike what the dominant media narrative asserts, has virtually nothing to do with people expressing politically incorrect opinions, or people refusing to...

16 Jan Understanding Inequality Requires Much More Than Calling Everything Racist

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To offer a semblance of solidarity with the working class, wealthy leftists have substituted identity politics for class conflict, and attempted to recast economic problems as problems of racism or bigotry. So, instead of assailing the manipulation of the economy by the state and crony capitalists,...

15 Jan Bonus Quotation of the Day…

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(Don Boudreaux) Tweet… is from page 5 of Cass Sunstein’s superb 2005 book, Laws of Fear: Human beings, cultures, nations often single out one or a few social risks as “salient,” and ignore the others. DBx: Yes. What Sunstein here describes is called by behavioral economists the...

15 Jan Solzhenitsyn: Prophet to America

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Solzhenitsyn and American Culture: The Russian Soul in the West. David P. Deavel and Jessica Hooten Wilson, eds. University of Notre Dame Press. 2020. 392 pages. English literature scholar Ed Ericson told a story about teaching Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago to American undergrads, who knew plenty about...

15 Jan America’s Supposedly Socialist History

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A new book makes the case that American history has been a long fight against the free market.Mike Konczal wrote Freedom from the Market to promote socialism in America. Citing polls finding that over 60 percent of those between 18 and 24 would “prefer living in a...

12 Jan Jeff Deist: Animating Economics to Serve Real People and Real Businesses

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Economics is an animating science. Economics is treated by many as an arid field of mathematical modeling. Human beings are treated as data in the model, almost the way physics regards atoms and molecules. This approach to economics doesn’t help people much; it doesn’t help us...

12 Jan For Every Action…

Posted at 19:32h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

(Don Boudreaux) Tweet… there is an equal and opposite reaction. So says Newton’s Third Law of Motion. What is true in the physical world is very often true also in the social world. Extremism on the political left causes extremism on the political right; extremism on the...

12 Jan Is Truth Irrelevant?

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It is amazing how many people seem to have discovered last Wednesday that riots are wrong — when many of those same people apparently had not noticed that when riots went on, for weeks or even months, in various cities across the country last year. For...