Anyone who champions the well-being of society should especially celebrate commercial centers, stock markets, international trade, and every sector in which money changes hands in exchange for assets, goods, and services, writes Jeffrey A. Tucker. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Steven
The state makes a mess of everything it touches. Examples from the book include how and why the “hot” water in our homes became lukewarm and what can be done about it, and how traffic laws became a racket for extracting wealth from the population, writes Jeffrey A. Tucker. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Steven
The job applications pour in by the buckets, all padded with degrees and made to look as impressive as possible. It’s all just paper. But experience and reputation are gold, writes Jeffrey A. Tucker. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Steven
For the first time in the history of the world, I’m able to communicate with anyone in the world instantly, regardless of language. The great barrier of all of human history has been overcome, writes Jeffrey A. Tucker. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Steven
Everyone knows the rule: drink no liquor before noon. How insufferable such advice is! It has caused morning drinkers to hide their habits, deny them when confronted, and otherwise feel like they are doing something wrong or immoral or socially intolerable, a combination which leads to other forms of pathology. It is time for them to stand up and
You know why so many men walk around with sloppy hair? We hate haircuts. You have to drive there to get one, which represents decline, because if you know about Figaro from Rossini’s “Barber of Seville,” the barber came to your home (but then he also pulled out your teeth and passed on furtive notes arranging encounters of various sort, etc.). In
Part of the difficulty of understanding Mark Twain’s political outlook is due to terminology and the tendency of politics to corrupt the meaning of everything. As often as you see him called a liberal, he is called a conservative, and sometimes both in the same breath. Critics puzzle about how one person could be champion of workers, owners, and
The debate between J.M. Keynes and F.A. Hayek, both living and teaching in Britain in the 1930s , was one of the great debates of the century. Sadly, the charming globetrotter Keynes had the podium and the audience, to the point of influencing policy the world over even to the present day. Meanwhile, the quiet and studious Hayek never really did
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