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24 Feb Tyranny Is Always Initially Tolerated, Even Welcomed, By Its Victims

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(Don Boudreaux) TweetI’m honored that AIER produced this video version – narrated by Kate Wand – of my December 14, 2020, essay, “Tyranny During Its Reign Is Unrecognized by Its Victims.” Read the Full Article here: >Cafe HayekCafe Hayek...

24 Feb When Financial Markets Bubble, There’s Something for Everyone

Posted at 09:12h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Thomas Levenson of MIT has written a timely book: Money For Nothing: The South Sea Bubble and the Invention of Modern Capitalism. As many assets on the world’s financial markets rise and rise and rise, and many pundits call for an inevitable collapse that never...

24 Feb How and Why Government Creates Disease Panic

Posted at 09:10h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Famed Johns Hopkins doctor Marty Makary recently wondered why “amid the dire Covid warnings, one crucial fact has been largely ignored: Cases are down 77% over the past six weeks.” He points out that “If a medication slashed cases by 77%, we’d call it a miracle...

23 Feb Mauricio Miller: Entrepreneurship as the Path Upwards From Anywhere, for Anyone

Posted at 22:29h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Entrepreneurship is the best pathway for all people out of unsatisfactory economic circumstances. Mauricio Miller, who arrived in the US as a poor immigrant from Mexico, and who also experienced living in some of America’s worst neighborhoods, spent over 20 years running social services for people...

23 Feb Is Individualism vs. Collectivism the New Left vs. Right?

Posted at 12:07h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

When we normally think of the “political spectrum,” we picture a linear scale extending in opposite directions. The left side we think of as “liberal” or “progressive,” and the right side we consider “conservative.” We like to use this one dimensional map as a way of...

23 Feb Socialism-in-Practice Was a Nightmare, Not Utopia

Posted at 12:05h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

It is amazing sometimes how really short humanity’s historical memory can be. Listening to some in American academia and on social media, you would think that socialism was a bright, new, and shiny idea never tried before that promises a beautiful future of peace, love,...

23 Feb The New York Times Regularly Publishes Falsehoods That Spur Violent Unrest and Civic Dysfunction

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By James D. AgrestiFebruary 22, 2021 Overview A New York Times essay by columnist Kevin Roose frets that the U.S. is suffering from a “reality crisis” and proposes this solution: President Biden should set up a “truth commission” to combat the “scourge” of “hoaxes, lies and collective...

23 Feb Why I Believe that Covid Derangement Syndrome Is Real

Posted at 12:03h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Over the past two weeks I’ve received emails urging me to tamp down my criticism of restrictions imposed in the name of fighting Covid-19. Most of the correspondents are polite, sincere, and even warm. Each, however, is convinced that I underestimate the threat that Covid...

23 Feb The Victims of the Eviction Moratorium

Posted at 12:02h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

A coalition of Chinese immigrant landlords in New York say they're on the verge of losing everything because of tenants who have stopped paying rent.------------------Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/ReasonTV?sub_...

23 Feb How Does All of This End?