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02 Oct Lockdown: The New Totalitarianism

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Every political ideology has three elements: a vision of hell with an enemy that needs to be crushed, a vision of a more perfect world, and a plan for transitioning from one to the other. The means of transition usually involve the takeover and deployment...

02 Oct The History Of Socialism And Capitalism

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Thursday, October 1, 2020Hoover InstitutionThe Hoover Institution presents an online virtual speaker series based on the scholarly research and commentary written by Hoover fellows participating in the Human Prosperity Project on Socialism and Free-Market Capitalism. This project objectively investigates the historical record to assess the...

02 Oct Quotation of the Day…

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(Don Boudreaux) Tweet… is from page 79 of Deirdre McCloskey’s important 2019 book, Why Liberalism Works: How True Liberal Values Produce a Freer, More Equal, Prosperous World for All: The communist, fascist, and national socialist régimes dating from 1917, 1922, and 1933, all of them versions...

02 Oct The Stories of Art, Freedom, and Poetry | Bob Chitester, Documentarian

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Bob Chitester is the founder of Free to Choose and the man who brought Milton Friedman and free-market economics into living rooms across the globe. After 30 years of television experience, Bob examines the relationship between the philosophy of liberty and the capacity for creativity,...

01 Oct Lockdown: The New Totalitarianism

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01 Oct Why Would YouTube Suppress Our New Video on Disney, Chinese Genocide, and Mulan?

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A bipartisan group of US Senators and House Members slammed Disney earlier this month after it was revealed the company thanked the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and various state propaganda agencies in the credits of its live-action remake of Mulan. Several of these agencies, it was...

01 Oct Expert Failure to Know

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(Don Boudreaux) TweetPhil Magness reports on a new paper co-authored by Anthony Fauci, M.D. In this paper, Dr. Fauci and his co-author (Dr. David Morens) write: It is a useful ‘‘thought experiment’’ to note that until recent decades and centuries, many deadly pandemic diseases either did...

01 Oct Do I Deserve What I Have? Part III

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Photo by Micheile Henderson on UnsplashIn part I of this series, I argued that I do not deserve my standard of living. Though I’ve worked hard and had a few good ideas in my career, it can be argued that much if not all of my...

01 Oct Need to Teach Your Kids about Personal Finance? Here Are Some Fun and Engaging Ways to Start

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One of the most important skills that parents can pass on to their children is the correct and responsible way to handle money. Considering how important financial literacy is for navigating life, it's surprising that it isn't generally taught in schools. This also makes it all...

29 Sep Modern Mercantilists Misunderstand Money – Foundation for Economic Education

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A common, and correct, observation among economists is that mercantilists mistake money for wealth. Mercantilists literally believe (even when they deny the belief) that money is wealth – that to accumulate money is to accumulate wealth and that to spend money is to become less wealthy....

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