Daily Economy
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The Problem of Millennial Socialism (Video)
Two recent surveys’ reporting that more than half of millennials identify as socialist should ring alarm bells for people who support free markets and individual liberty.
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Industrial Production Rose in August but the Trend Remains Weak
Industrial production rose in August, but the trend remains weak. Tariffs, erratic policy, and elevated uncertainty represent threats to the sector and the economy.
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Price Controls Attack the Freedom of Speech
There are few government interventionist policies as likely to disrupt, distort, and imbalance the actions of tens of millions, indeed, hundreds of millions, of people dependent upon each other for the everyday things of life as much as price controls.
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Firearms and the Problem of Rights
Even if we somehow magically made all the guns go away, a few of our laziest, dullest mass murders might be deterred, but many would deploy instead even deadlier and more indiscriminate weapons of mass murder.
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Elizabeth Warren and the Economics of Magical Thinking
I’d take whatever Bernie Sanders calls socialism over accountable capitalism any day, because rather than starve the dynamic private sector of resources, Elizabeth Warren’s vision stifles the dynamism itself.
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In Markets, Your Vote Counts; in Politics, Not So Much
Democratic voting gives no individual any influence whatsoever over the manner in which he or she is treated, or how he or she fares, in society.
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Bitcoin, Like Gold, is a Product of Spontaneous Order
Bitcoin is as much a product of spontaneous order as gold; it arose of unrelated innovations in several fields, each coming from different minds and institutions with wholly unrelated objectives.
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Face It, We Are All Spoiled
Let’s go easy on the young. There is nothing wrong with being spoiled. We all are. What’s inexcusable is the ignorance that drives us to take it all for granted and utterly fail to understand the source of the greatness of our lives and opportunities.
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Mises’s Human Action After 70 Years
If enough people discover and rediscover the timeless truths in the pages of Human Action, the ideas of Ludwig von Mises may well assist us in stemming the growing tide toward an even larger leviathan state that dangerously looms in front of us.
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The Problem of Millennial Socialism (Video)
Two recent surveys’ reporting that more than half of millennials identify as socialist should ring alarm bells for people who support free markets and individual liberty.
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•
Industrial Production Rose in August but the Trend Remains Weak
Industrial production rose in August, but the trend remains weak. Tariffs, erratic policy, and elevated uncertainty represent threats to the sector and the economy.
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•
Price Controls Attack the Freedom of Speech
There are few government interventionist policies as likely to disrupt, distort, and imbalance the actions of tens of millions, indeed, hundreds of millions, of people dependent upon each other for the everyday things of life as much as price controls.
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•
Firearms and the Problem of Rights
Even if we somehow magically made all the guns go away, a few of our laziest, dullest mass murders might be deterred, but many would deploy instead even deadlier and more indiscriminate weapons of mass murder.
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Elizabeth Warren and the Economics of Magical Thinking
I’d take whatever Bernie Sanders calls socialism over accountable capitalism any day, because rather than starve the dynamic private sector of resources, Elizabeth Warren’s vision stifles the dynamism itself.
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•
In Markets, Your Vote Counts; in Politics, Not So Much
Democratic voting gives no individual any influence whatsoever over the manner in which he or she is treated, or how he or she fares, in society.
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•
Bitcoin, Like Gold, is a Product of Spontaneous Order
Bitcoin is as much a product of spontaneous order as gold; it arose of unrelated innovations in several fields, each coming from different minds and institutions with wholly unrelated objectives.
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•
Face It, We Are All Spoiled
Let’s go easy on the young. There is nothing wrong with being spoiled. We all are. What’s inexcusable is the ignorance that drives us to take it all for granted and utterly fail to understand the source of the greatness of our lives and opportunities.
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•
Mises’s Human Action After 70 Years
If enough people discover and rediscover the timeless truths in the pages of Human Action, the ideas of Ludwig von Mises may well assist us in stemming the growing tide toward an even larger leviathan state that dangerously looms in front of us.