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Fossil Fuels Enable Us to Better Fight Fires and Other Environmental Disasters

Blog6 hours ago

The latest round of wildfires in Canada has brought out the usual statist demands that we ban fossil fuels, but in the real world fossil fuels protect people from climate-related disasters.

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David French Gets to Sit with the Cool Kids at the NYT Lunch Table

Blog6 hours ago

New York Times columnist David French likes to think of himself as an honest broker. In reality, his "Never Trump" mentality leads him to overlook government lawbreaking.

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Global EconomyInflation

Commodity Prices Debunk the "Blame Ukraine" Excuse for Inflation

Blog7 hours ago

Inflationists will blame inflation on anything and everything except the only thing that makes all prices, which are measured in monetary units, rise at the same: Money supply growth rising faster than real economic output.

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Secession Means More Choices, More Freedom, Less Monopoly Power

Blog06/09/2023

Once states can extend their monopolies over vast expanses of land and cultural regions, states are more easily able to increase their taxation and regulatory power without danger of losing significant amounts of tax revenue due to migration.

Legal SystemMedia and CultureProgressivism

You Can’t Depend on the State to Maintain Public Order

Blog06/09/2023

Crime is increasing in American cities, but don't count on police to protect you. The Defund the Police movement has less to do with that than most people think.

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Rothbard on Utilitarianism

Blog06/09/2023

Modern mainstream neoclassical economics is constructed on utilitarianism. Murray Rothbard challenged that worldview on many fronts.

Do Sticky Prices Make the Market Get Stuck?

06/09/2023Mises Media

Can prices be "wrong" (i.e. in disequilibrium) if they are "sticky?" Jonathan Newman joins Bob to discuss. 

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It’s Raining Entrepreneurship at a Taylor Swift Concert

Blog06/09/2023

While rain at an outdoor concert is a nuisance for most attendees, a few entrepreneurs saw not "pennies from heaven," but dollars.

Media and CultureSocialismWorld History

A Great Man Cannot Salvage a Bad Idea

Blog06/08/2023

Einstein might have been one of history's most brilliant men, but even his great mind could not have made socialism work. Unfortunately, he wasn't smart enough to see that.

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