The Trump Political Show Trial
Trump would do well to ignore the Senate proceedings. There is no reason to participate in a show trial. Original Article: “The Trump Political Show Trial“ This Audio Mises Wire …
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AOC and Schumer Want Taxpayer Funding for Covid-19 Funerals
US residents whose family members died with or of covid will be eligible to receive $7,000 for funeral and related expenses, New York senator Chuck Schumer (D) and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D) announced. During …
The Dystopian Bubble: George Orwell Meets Charles Mackay
“Threats to freedom of speech, writing, and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of …
Professor Mohammad Keyhani on Generativity, The New Digital Pathway to Business Growth
Our metric for business is value generation. The scope of Economics For Business is not determined by business size or type — we don’t label firms as small, medium or …
Politics and Ideas
In the Age of Enlightenment, in the years in which the North Americans founded their independence, and a few years later, when the Spanish and Portuguese colonies were transformed into …
Title IX Will Become a Vehicle of More Injustice
President Joe Biden has vowed to put a “quick end” to the Trump administration’s Title IX regulations and return to Obama-era ones at universities. If this happens, there will be …
Turning the Word Upside Down: How Cantillon Redefined the Entrepreneur
Abstract: The word entrepreneur originally meant someone who is active, risky, and even violent. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries it was used to denote a contractor who built large …
The GameStop Saga Unravels Stakeholder Theory
Suddenly the champions of stakeholder theory, like the predictably despicable Washington Post, find themselves singing a new tune about vulture capitalists, deciding that hedge fund short sellers are now the …
Jeff Deist on the GameStop Saga
Jeff Deist joins David Gornoski to talk about the GameStop Wall Street Saga. He highlights how the media narrative seeks to manipulate the masses to view Reddit traders as fascistic …
Rothbard’s Case Against the Fed
Dr. Mark Thornton joins the show to discuss what might just be Murray Rothbard’s best book on money and banking: The Case Against the Fed. Written not long before his …