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Trump: We Are in Venezuela Now, and We Are Going to Stay21:49 Trump claimed Washington would pay for the occupation of Venezuela with profits from the country’s oil. Silver’s Growing Pains13:20 $50 wasn’t the finish line. It was the starting gun for policy finger-pointing and real-world bottlenecks. Trump’s National Insecurity Strategy12:16 President Trump’s latest national security initiative is unlikely to make the US secure from outside danger. For that matter, Trump’s own internal policies are making this country less secure. Embracing Austrian Economics: A Path Forward for Zimbabwe12:16 Ever since independence more than 40 years ago, Zimbabwe has been wracked with socialism, inflation, and corrupt political leadership. Yet, there is a way forward for the nation, if Austrian Economics can be in its future. American Indians: Separating Truth from Fiction2.ledna Depending upon the narrative, American Indians were either noble creatures who were victims of a genocide by rapacious European settlers or were bloodthirsty savages. The truth is more nuanced. Assessing Libertarian Foreign Policy: Rothbard vs. Friedman2.ledna In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon assesses the “libertarian” foreign policy prescriptions of Murray Rothbard and David Freeman. Naturally, Rothbard’s view—built upon principles of natural law—stands above Freidman’s less-principled “pragmatism.” Roger Farmer Gives a Tour of Macroeconomics2.ledna This week, Bob talks with macroeconomist Roger Farmer—who places himself “between Keynes and Hayek”—about how twentieth-century macroeconomics evolved. Forbes: The Fed has destroyed the dollar2.ledna " A dollar saved in 1913 retains roughly $0.03 of its original purchasing power. The M2 money supply has expanded from approximately $15 billion to over $21 trillion..." The Panic of 1893: An Austrian View2.ledna From an Austrian perspective, the Panic of 1893 provides key lessons, but this consequential panic has not received as much direct attention as it deserves. The Illogic of Reparations: Historical Standards, Selective Memory, and the Logic of Victory1.ledna Demands for Americans to pay reparations to descendants of chattel slavery in America have been growing. The case for reparations, however, has always been weak and illogical. In the New Year, We Will Hear Even More Environmental Doom Because the Doomsday Industry Never Rests1.ledna A wearisome part of modern life is the incessant chants of “doomsday” from intellectual, academic, political, and media elites. That their six decades of predictions all have been wrong only leads them to double down on the volume of their claims. The Rise of the State and the Fall of Natural Law31.prosince In the wake of WWI, Pope Pius XI reminded his readers that governments instituted by men can never be perfect, and they cannot even be good if they neglect natural law. The Misesian, vol. 2, no. 6, 202531.prosince This issue of The Misesian discusses that, without private property, there is no way to plan for the future, and one’s goods are always subject to confiscation from the more powerful. In other words, a world without private property is a lawless world. Easterly of Eden31.prosince Easterly questions if economic development is really development unless all parties have the right and opportunity to consent voluntarily in their own decisions |