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Mises Daily
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Tom Lehman
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A recent article in the Wall Street Journal is a perfect example of how bad economic arguments in support of good ends can be easily twisted and used to confuse the general public (Gwendolyn Bounds, “ Argument for minimum-wage boost ,” 7/27/04, p. B3). When we engage in poor reasoning and faulty economic logic in support of a noble cause, we can
Mises Daily
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Carl F. Horowitz
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Private pensions in this country date back more than 100 years, that is to say, to a time when most people didn’t live long enough to collect them. Nowadays Americans take living comfortably to 75 and beyond to be an entitlement. Not that longevity in itself is something to complain about, but it does have a few downsides—like a gradually sinking
Mises Daily
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Thomas J. DiLorenzo
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I n response to an earlier article on Mises.org in which I described why capitalism, and not labor unions, have given us more and more leisure time quite a few people emailed me to ask: ”But aren’t workers at a disadvantage in bargaining individually for wages, and aren’t unions valuable for that reason?” I never argued that unions had no value,
Mises Daily
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Thomas J. DiLorenzo
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Imagine that I get together with my friends in Auburn (say, Lew Rockwell and Joseph Stromberg) and open up a coffee shop in Auburn , Alabama called “The Austrian Café.” We offer a selection of strong, European coffee, assorted desserts, and occasional music (sing-alongs on Friday and Saturday evenings, in German and English). It turns out to be
Mises Daily
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Thomas J. DiLorenzo
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Macroeconomic model builders have finally realized what Henry Hazlitt and John T. Flynn (among others) knew in the 1930s: FDR’s New Deal made the Great Depression longer and deeper. It is a myth that Franklin D. Roosevelt “got us out of the Depression” and “saved capitalism from itself,” as generations of Americans have been taught by the state’s
Mises Daily
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Per Henrik Hansen
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The traditional family has for many centuries and in most countries been the core unit of society. It has been the foundation and even the ultimate purpose in many people’s lives. It has provided a stable framework to bring children into the world, to raise them, to teach them manners and how to become productive and happy human beings. It has
Mises Daily
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Ninos P. Malek
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People engage in fierce competition everyday. Entrepreneurs strive to create the next Microsoft, employees fight their way up the corporate ladder to become the next Donald Trump, and competitive athletes train their bodies to reach the level of a Lance Armstrong or Tiger Woods. We can all appreciate the drive and spirit behind the competitive
Mises Daily
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Gregory Bresiger
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The circus is coming to your town soon. Maybe, I’m getting old, but I just can’t get very excited about the clowns anymore. Yup, it’s political season again and those bothersome polls, still lusting for the votes that put or keep themselves and their pals in office, will be in our faces until the nonsense is over. Time for the same tired two