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Your Money and Your Brain

Financial MarketsPhilosophy and Methodology

02/25/2008Mises Daily Articles
Zweig also explores how humans are overconfident in their abilities
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Yellow Journalism at the Weekly Standard

Global EconomyMedia and CultureWar and Foreign Policy

01/03/2007Mises Daily Articles
We free marketeers get exhausted saying it so many times, but here goes: Foreign imports do not destroy jobs on net. Government interventions against international trade do not promote employment. Everyone can get hired in a free labor market, so there is no issue of "providing jobs."
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You Will Find It in Human Action

05/15/2006Mises Daily Articles
Everyone interested in ideas has surely had the following experience. You become curious about a certain topic. You start with periodicals, read a bit more deeply, become engaged more broadly and start to buy and check out book after book. Pretty soon you have a good-sized library developing. You...
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You Treat Me Like Property

Private Property

02/14/2006Mises Daily Articles
Vedran Vuk, as an economics major, thinks that it's not such a bad thing to treat one's beloved like property, so long as it is private property.
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Year-End Contributions to the Mises Institute

12/01/2005Mises Daily Articles
The Mises Institute is funded entirely by private donations from readers like you who make it all possible.
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Your Home is Your Cottage

Legal SystemPrivate Property

09/08/2005Mises Daily Articles
"Anti-mansionization" ordinances, writes Adam Summers, hit at a fundamental right that Americans have long taken for granted: the right to build or buy the biggest home you can afford.
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You Call This Investment?

Big GovernmentTaxes and SpendingU.S. EconomyInterventionism

11/06/2000Mises Daily Articles
The Social Security Commissioner sent out a letter revealing what the system will eventually pay. Gregory Bresiger is not pleased.
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