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It's Easy to Believe AOC Has an Economics Degree

37 min agoPower & Market

Many people seem to be under the wrong impression that getting an economics degree nowadays leads one to have reverence for private markets and entrepreneurs. That's not what economics departments teach.

Jeff Deist on Kennedy

Capitalism vs. Socialism

3 hours agoAudio/Video
Is Bernie right to say America has become a socialist country? Jeff Deist joins guest host Judge Andrew P. Napolitano on Kennedy to discuss the "Capitalism vs. Socialism" debate within the Democrat Party.
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Individual Responsibility and Guilt

Blog5 hours ago

Susan Neiman contends Southerners need to acknowledge guilt for slavery, segregation, and lynching, and "work off" the past. But collective responsibility is a chimera, and a dangerous one at that.

Pennsylvania's Anarchist Experiment: 1681–1690

5 hours agoMises Daily Articles

"The reality must be faced that the new…colony of Pennsylvania lived for the greater part of four years in a de facto condition of individual anarchism, and seemed none the worse for the experience."

Why Rothbard Wanted "Radical Decentralization"

Blog5 hours ago

Secession and decentralization are good for two reasons: they move us toward a society with more individual freedom. And smaller, more decentralized societies are more economically free.

Blago Is Free

Blog10 hours ago

Blago's real crime wasn't trying to sell a senate seat, if he did in fact try to do that. Rather his crime was that he refused to appoint the man Obama had picked as his successor in the Senate.

Marxist Dreams and Soviet Realities

02/20/2020Mises Daily Articles

The Nazi concentration camps were modified versions of Soviet originals.  It's true the Soviet Union is not history's only killer state, but it is the original model on which others are based.

Is Free Market Economics Too "Ideological"?

Blog02/20/2020

Free market economics is often ignorantly dismissed for being "ideological" rather than scientific. It probably sounds smart to the economically illiterate, but it is decidedly not.

Why It's so Hard to Escape America's "Anti-Poverty" Programs

Blog02/20/2020

Between the regulation of business and penalties for rising income, anti-poverty policies in America make it so that many workers have no clear path to escape poverty.

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Trump's Budget: More Warfare, Slightly Less Welfare

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