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Summer Fellowships: Excellent Research Opportunity
If you are a graduate student with a research project in Austrian economics or libertarian political philosophy, consider applying for the Mises Institute's Summer Fellows program.
When You’re Popular, You Don’t Need Freedom of Speech
When you're unpopular, free speech sounds pretty great. But once you control the reins of power, free speech is really just an inconvenience, as the recent rise of the American left with its speech codes and trigger warnings has shown us.
LIVE! Mises Circle in Phoenix
Live broadcast of Ron Paul, Lew Rockwell, Jeff Deist, William Boyes, and Charles Goyette in Phoenix, Arizona.
The Week In Review: November 7, 2015
There were many state and local elections in the US this week, but few of them will result in anything that will combat widely held and popular errors about central banking, drug prohibition, and the global environment.
Life Expectancy: If Denmark Were a US State, It Would Rank Equal To or Worse Than Sixteen US States
The OECD released new life expectancy data this week. The agency then blamed the US's slightly lower numbers on not enough government spending on health care. This rather oversimplifies the matter, to say the least.
Activists Seek to Impoverish Thai Villagers to Save Monkeys from “Slavery”
Farmers have been using monkeys to harvest coconuts in Thailand for hundreds of years. But now, animal rights activists have decided that these farmers should have their livelihoods destroyed in order to save the monkeys from "slavery".
DEA Releases New Drug Overdose Death Figures: Guns Safer than Prescription Drugs
"Drug overdose deaths are the leading cause of injury death in the United States, ahead of deaths from motor vehicle accidents and firearms."
Much of that “Redistributed” Wealth Goes Back to the Same Groups That Paid For It
Americans and Europeans redistribute a lot of wealth. But that doesn't mean it goes from high-income people to low-income people. In fact, a lot of government money goes back to the income groups that it came from. After the government takes its cut.
