Yet another discouraging trend in law in the UK, Europe, and the US has been the criminalization of what authorities call ”hate speech.“ However, much of what passes for such “speech” in innocuous at worst and historically has been protected.

The way in which the economy grows is by capital accumulation, and the great bulk of this takes place through the investments of the well off.

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The Mises Institute is creating lessons for young economists to better help them evaluate and interpret economic events. Of course, these lessons also apply to anyone else wanting to be better education on economics.

Mainstream economists speak of GDP as though it is the economy itself, however, GDP is not a good measure of economic reality. Instead, it presents a distorted picture of genuine economic activity and leads to mistaken conclusions about the economy.

While the Ukrainian incursion in Russia’s Kursk region is dramatic, the operation does not change the fact that the Ukrainian position in future talks with Russia continues to grow weaker and weaker.

Politicians and hedge funds that push “Environmental, Social, and Governance” (ESG) scores and investing do so with the notion of improving social welfare. What they fail to realize is that these concerns are accounted for in human action already.