While socialists posit socialism as a humane and ethical system, it is anything but that. Mises understood its brutality long before socialism gripped the world. Original Article: “How Marxism Abuses Ethics and Science to Deceive Its Followers” This Audio Mises Wire ...
As the session on Friday ended, we not only ended the trading week but also the month and the year. 2022 was choppy for the equities to say the least. The markets had to navigate the weak trends, geopolitical tensions, ...
Is it possible, or even desirable, for economic freedom and progress to be compatible with authoritarianism? Although some may believe so, this is a fallacy. Freedom is indivisible. Political and economic freedom cannot be separated. This is the position of ...
In the research paper Egalitarianism and the Elites, published in 1995 in the Review of Austrian Economics, one of Murray Rothbard’s most brilliant insights was that even the implementation of an egalitarian society requires leadership. As the fall of one ...
Progressives demanding that the government forgive student debt forget that student loans were made voluntarily by students that promised to pay back what they owe. Original Article: “Student Debt: It Is and Has Been a Personal Choice” This Audio Mises Wire ...
2022 has come to an end with a collective “Thank Goodness!” There’s just no sugarcoating it; 2022 was a brutal year for those who were long stocks. This was particularly true for those who stuck with technology stocks, with the ...
Now that the November 2022 mid-term elections are behind us, the stock market is now in year 3 of the 4-year presidential cycle pattern. Some analysts look at that on a calendar day basis, but I prefer to count the ...
I’ve been watching critical areas like semiconductors ($DJUSSC), software ($DJUSSW), and internet ($DJUSNS) underperform vs. the S&P 500 throughout 2022. But the good news is that, since June, money rotating out of the three aforementioned aggressive sectors is finding a ...
On this week’s edition of StockCharts TV‘s StockCharts in Focus, Grayson’s digging into more new features that just rolled out across the site, highlighting his top 5 favorites that have been added to ACP. He’ll cover the new annotation features, actions, right-click, ...
What We Owe the Futureby William MacAskillBasic Books, 2022; 333 pp. William MacAskill, a philosophy professor at Oxford and a leading light of the effective altruism movement, has recently been in the news owing to the frenzied and fraudulent finance ...