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Convex combination of Ron Swanson and Britta Perry Cohost of The Stacker Sports Podcast
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The Crisis of the American Tax State https://mises.org/mises-wire/crisis-american-tax-state By Ryan McMaken > The United States is now a full-blown “tax state” in that lawmakers can raise taxes with minimal effort without meaningful legal resistance from any other domestic institution.
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The "Acid Rain" Scare and the Science-Industrial Complex https://mises.org/mises-wire/acid-rain-scare-and-science-industrial-complex by William L. Anderson > “Science” is now indistinguishable from politics. As the “acid rain” hysteria showed back in the 1970s and 1980s, “follow the science” is just a political slogan, unrelated to actual science. I don't know what the solution is to this problem, but science as an enterprise needs to grapple with the actual incentives at play by the actors within it. It's downright utopian to imagine scientists to simply be dispassionate investigators seeking the truth.
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Imports and Developing Countries: Countering the Myths of Western Exploitation https://mises.org/mises-wire/imports-and-developing-countries-countering-myths-western-exploitation By Lipton Matthews > An enduring myth is that imports from industrialized western countries have decimated production of goods in developing countries. Economic history tells a much different story.
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Money Supply Fluctuations and Business Cycles https://mises.org/mises-wire/money-supply-fluctuations-and-business-cycles By Frank Shostak > Milton Friedman and the monetarists believed that fluctuations in the money supply caused the boom-and-bust business cycles. Their solution—keeping money growth slow and steady—would still lead to business cycles.
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Abolish the Bureau of Labor Statistics https://mises.org/mises-wire/abolish-bureau-labor-statistics by Patrick Carroll > Murray Rothbard recognized that the Bureau of Labor Statistics provides the lifeblood for government intervention. It doesn’t need to be “reformed,” but rather should be outright abolished.
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"FDA Approval" is a Monopolist's Scheme to Limit Competition (2018) https://mises.org/power-market/fda-approval-monopolists-scheme-limit-competition by Hunter Lewis > Here we have a “drug” intended to help Americans of African descent, but because it has been approved by the FDA, now costs more than $500 per week.
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A Pyrrhic End to 130 Years of Vicious Bad Money and Banking Crises (2023) https://mises.org/mises-wire/pyrrhic-end-130-years-vicious-bad-money-and-banking-crises by Brendan Brown > The current banking crises have deep roots in US financial history. Monetary authorities have engaged in inflationary behavior for more than a hundred years.
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Why Taxes Were So Hated in the Middle Ages https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-taxes-were-so-hated-middle-ages by Ryan McMaken > During the Middle Ages, taxation was considered to be appropriate only as an extreme measure in times of emergency, and as a last resort. Kings were expected to subsist on revenues from their own private property.
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Public Enemies: Government Bureaucrats as Societal Parasites https://mises.org/misesian/public-enemies-government-bureaucrats-societal-parasites By Thomas J. DiLorenzo > Governments at all levels play the same game—always threatening to eliminate school buses, police departments, ambulances, garbage collection—whatever can succeed in getting the voters to approve more taxes and spending. ![](https://m.stacker.news/110803)
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Government’s Eternal Hunger for a Free Lunch https://mises.org/mises-wire/governments-eternal-hunger-free-lunch by George Ford Smith > Through its coercive monopoly over money creation, government constantly engages in silent theft through inflation, all done in the name of “stimulating” the economy. Government, armed with fiat money, can bypass production and essentially claim the output of others.
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Government Shutdown Shows Why We Need to Decentralize National Parks (2019) https://mises.org/mises-wire/government-shutdown-shows-why-we-need-decentralize-national-parks By Ryan McMaken > It’s considered normal for DC bureaucrats to decide if you can use an outhouse 2,500 miles Supposedly, there's a real push to return a lot of federal lands to the states, as well as privatizing a bunch of it. Let's hope. The western US is subjected to a crazy amount of artificial land scarcity.