There I stood at the pharmacy counter, with a head cold, sniffing away, and begging for some product that contains pseudoephedrine , which works like a magic nose unclogger. The stuff you can get off the shelf now contains the similar-sounding drug called phenylephrine , but it might as well be a placebo. It just doesn’t work, and most everyone
Many churches during the season of Lent hold a “hunger banquet” to illustrate the problem of poverty in the developing world. Nothing wrong with that, of course, but does guilt manipulation really solve the problem or does it cause people to grasp for straws or actually favor dangerous policies? Here is the way the banquet works. Everyone pays one
Sometimes the regular news reads just like The Onion , such as this one on the growing controversy about a new liquor drink called Spykes . Apparently many people think that this sweet drink in a nail-polish-style bottle is, gasp, being marketed to young people. Anheuser-Busch says that this is ridiculous, why they’ve done no marketing at all! And
So here is a story about the “infrequent inspections, deficient safety requirements, and low hiring standards” of day care operations around the country. We need federal regulations! Or so says the National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies. Two questions. Why isn’t is obvious that if any industry can be self-regulating, it
If it does not say US, it is not 100% American catfish, or so says the Catfish Marketing Association, which is just oh so concerned about your health, and also very concerned that that Chinese catfish is about 2/3 cheaper than that raised in Alabama. The CMA was the real power behind the FDA’s decision to ban Chinese catfish imports into the US,
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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. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.