What is the Mises Institute? The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order....
Read More »Keynes Was Not Much Better at Investing than He Was at Understanding Economics
What is the Mises Institute? The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order....
Read More »No Matter the Form, Easy Money Is Still a Fraud
What is the Mises Institute? The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order....
Read More »The Betrayal of Free Speech: Elon Musk Buckles to Government Censorship, Again
In April 2024, STF Justice Alexandre de Moraes of Brazil ordered the suspension of dozens of accounts on X for allegedly spreading disinformation. Musk denounced the orders as censorship and refused to comply. The dispute escalated, leading to the ban on X in Brazil. After months of defiance, Elon Musk’s social media platform has decided to comply with Brazilian court orders, censoring users at the behest of the government.As a staunch defender of individual freedom...
Read More »Bitcoin erstmals über 80.000 US-Dollar
NEW YORK (awp international) - Der Kurs des Bitcoins hat erstmals die Schwelle von 80.000 US-Dollar überschritten. Auf der Plattform Bitstamp kletterte die älteste und bekannteste Kryptowährung heute im Vergleich zum Vortag um über 4 Prozent auf bis zu 80.047 Dollar. Allein in den vergangenen sieben Tagen konnte die Krypto-Leitwährung damit über... [embedded content]...
Read More »Kraken kündigt eigene Blockchain ‘Ink’ an – Neue Ära für den Krypto-Markt?
• Kraken plant eigene Blockchain <br> • "Ink" als "nahtlose Brücke zu DeFi"<br> • Testphase in diesem Jahr <br> <!-- sh_cad_1 --> Die Kryptobwährungsbörse <a href="/aktien/kraken-aktie" target="_blank">Kraken</a> plant, noch in diesem Jahr ihre eigene Blockchain namens "Ink" auf den Markt zu bringen. So soll "Ink" auf der Superchain von... [embedded content]...
Read More »Popularity of sustainable investment waning in Switzerland
While demand for sustainable investments increased in Switzerland between 2018 and 2023, the inflow of money fell last year. Keystone / Gaetan Bally Listen to the article Listening the article...
Read More »The Complex Legacy of George Orwell
George Orwell, one of the most influential political writers of the 20th century, is widely recognized for his searing critiques of totalitarian regimes in his novels Animal Farm and 1984. Orwell’s portrayal of state control, propaganda, and the manipulation of truth has resonated with readers across the political spectrum. However, Orwell’s personal political ideology and his critiques of totalitarianism are far more complex than is often acknowledged. Rather than...
Read More »Historical Revisionism: What It Is and What It Is Not
An activist historian in the United Kingdom, who rose to prominence as a supporter of Black Lives Matter, recently expounded to the Times on what he sees as the proper role of historians: “I think [the job of historians] is to try to stand there at this arsenal of dangerous ideas and to make it more difficult for people to raid that arsenal to use it for their political projects. It is to complicate the picture; it is to show that these simple assertions are much...
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What is the Mises Institute? The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order....
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