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During March of 2020, Sweden’s state epidemiologist, Anders Tegnell, showed us how public health can be managed ethically by refusing to lockdown Sweden’s residents. The rest of the public health discipline, however, entered the territory in which we now place the universally castigated discipline of eugenics. Eugenics breaches ethics and causes enormous harm to the fabric of mankind. Likewise, lockdowns breach ethics and have terrorized or killed millions of people...

Dear Friend, In the midst of this busy Christmas season, I want to make sure you received our year-end letter from Lew Rockwell. If you already responded, thank you! But if not, will you take a minute today to make your most generous contribution and support the Mises Institute? We are all thankful to have the political season of 2022 over, but now the 2024 presidential election looms like a bad moon. The midterms solved nothing and brought no relief to a divided and...

The US dollar's bull market appears to have come to a climactic end late in Q3 22 and early Q4. In the last three months of 2022, the G10 currencies, except the Canadian dollar, rose by more than 5% against the greenback. In addition, six of the G10 currencies appreciated more than 7.5%. Such significant moves are often followed by consolidation and corrections. These countertrend moves can offer new opportunities to adjust currency exposures.Three main...

Keynesians believe that economic growth can occur only with an expanding supply of money. Growth doesn't need more money; it needs more savings. Original Article: "Economic Growth Requires Savings, Not Money Pumping" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon.  [embedded content] Tags:...

On this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop look ahead to 2023 with a handful of predictions for the new year. They even manage to find one reason for optimism! Be sure to follow Radio Rothbard at Mises.org/RadioRothbard. [embedded content] Tags: Featured,newsletter

A relatively new area of study in economics, behavioral economics, has started to gain popularity. The behavioral economics framework emerged because of dissatisfaction with the neoclassical theory regarding consumer choice. A major problem with the neoclassical theory is that human beings are presented as if hardwired with a scale of preferences. Regardless of circumstances, this scale is considered to remain the same at all times. Mainstream economics argues that,...

The Pilgrims tried socialism at Plymouth. After two years, they returned to private enterprise. Likewise, Israel was founded as a socialist state but has back turned toward free markets. Original Article: "A (True) Thanksgiving Tale of Socialism in America and Israel" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon.  [embedded content]...

I had the pleasure to have a conversation with Jerm about left and right, the logic of political correctness, Western Civilization and Christmas.I hope you like it. click on the link below to listen to it https://tntradiolive.podbean.com/e/claudio-grass-on-jerm-warfare-with-jeremy-nell-23-december-2022/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Therefore please feel free to share and you can subscribe for...

[Originally published in the Housing Finance International Journal.] The 21st century, only 23 years old, has already had two giant, international housing bubbles. It makes one doubt that we are getting any smarter with experience. Among the countries involved in the second bubble, both the U.S. and Canada fully participated in the newest rampant inflation of house prices. Prices this time reached levels far above those of the last boom peak. In the U.S., the...

Yuval Noah Harari, professor of history at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, is not only a best-selling author but also a top advisor to Klaus Schwab, founder and front man of the World Economic Forum (WEF). In 2018, Harari wrote: “Unfortunately, ‘free will’ isn’t a scientific reality. It is a myth inherited from Christian theology.” And, in a 2019 interview, Harari said: Humans today are a hackable animal—an animal that can be hacked. . . . Hacking a person means...