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George Hearst: Entrepreneur in the Mises Mold

Book ReviewsU.S. History

Blog01/25/2022

The reality is the primary quality of an entrepreneur can’t be taught: the stomach to risk everything and keep wanting more.  

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Review: Understanding Money Mechanics

Book ReviewsMoney and Banks

Blog01/24/2022

Bob Murphy provides the “intelligent layperson a concise yet comprehensive overview of the theory, history, and practice of money and banking, with a focus on the United States.”

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Review: The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health

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Blog12/15/2021

Fauci-funded and Fauci-supported "AIDS research" consisted of running medical experiments on children, among other horrors. Through it all, Fauci profited handsomely with his many "partners" in Big Pharma.

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A History of Cronyism in America

Book ReviewsU.S. History

Blog12/07/2021

Cronyism: when the government passes policies to benefit special-interest politicians, bureaucrats, businesses, and other groups at the expense of the general public.

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This Professor Hates the Austrian School. But He Clearly Doesn't Know Much about It.

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Blog11/29/2021

Larson's principal targets are Friedman and Hayek, but Mises and Rothbard are not spared. For Larson, promarket economists aren't just wrong. They're bad people.

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Why Care about Inequality?

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Blog11/18/2021

Inequality can exist and grow even if everyone is becoming better off—but some are becoming more better off than others. Should we care about this kind of inequality? 

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Why There Is No Free Lunch

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Blog11/08/2021

"You do not exploit people by offering them jobs, even if you could have made them an offer they would have found even more desirable."

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How Media and Tech Elites Seized Control of Elections

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Blog11/04/2021

Our aim ought not to be to make democracy “work better” but to use revelations of corruption as a tool to question altogether its value as a political and social system of organization.

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The Historical Origins of Modern American War Crimes

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Blog11/01/2021

In many ways, the American war crimes of Korea and Vietnam were a continuation of American military conduct in the Civil War and during the Indian wars. 

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Contract Rights Are Not the Same as Natural Rights

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Blog10/30/2021

Contracts are voidable and thoroughly changeable. They can be totally ignored with the consent of both parties. But natural rights are not like contracts and can't be abolished even with consent.

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