Economist Peter St. Onge summarizes some of the major financial and government news stories of the day. Bob's Mises University Talk 'Price Inflation: Corona vs. QE': Mises.org/HAP432a Join Tom DiLorenzo, Joe Salerno, and Patrick Newman in Tampa on February 17: Mises.org/Tampa2024Use code "Action24" for 15% off admission. Human
For those who remember their high school textbooks, the issue of America's imperial history is very clear cut. American imperialism, the textbooks told us, was that fairly brief period in American history that lasted from 1898 to 1945. This was the period during which the
Socialist Antonio Gramsci’s “long march through the institutions” describes the slow and gradual intellectual capture of a society through its influential and powerful institutions, including the church, media, the arts, corporations, schools, and universities, eventually leading to full infiltration. It takes little awareness to realize that
Socialism: A Logical IntroductionScott R. SehonOxford University Press, 2024; 268 pp. This is a better book than I expected it to be, but it is not without its problems. Scott Sehon, a philosophy professor at Bowdoin College, is strongly inclined to believe that socialism is better
Colleen Hroncich Amy Marotz loved being a teacher at a classical‐type charter school. But when she had children, she wanted to stay home with them and be their teacher first. She may not have expected it, but Amy was learning right alongside them. “My daughter went to Minnesota
Jennifer Huddleston and Emma Hopp January 28 is Data Privacy Day. An October 2023 survey from the Pew Research Center found “72% of Americans say they have little to no understanding about the laws and regulations that are currently in place to protect their data privacy.”
Free markets is an unambiguous term, which implies a lack of inappropriate government intervention as consumers and firms pursue their own interest in a competitive environment. (my emphasis) —Clifford Winston, “This Economist Really Loves Free Markets” Inappropriate government intervention is a line government finds easy to cross,
Having recently completed forty-one years as a university economics professor I am convinced that books like Human Action in particular, and the Austrian School in general, are more needed than ever if Western civilization is to be saved from the onslaught by the current generation
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