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Last Call at the Capitalist Arms

Last Call at the Capitalist Arms

Chris Sellars It had to end of course. Anyone who thought the status quo was reasonable or sustainable were delusional. They were living in what has always been referred to as a fool’s paradise. Alas, paradise cannot be realised in this transitory material world. We live imprisoned by space

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Onward, Comrades. It’s Back to the Polish Shipyard for You.

Onward, Comrades. It’s Back to the Polish Shipyard for You.

In a sign that drugs – or threats (both are equally effective I’m informed) – work, and proving the steady decline of standards in NZ media, where the flow of intellect has been reduced to a mere dribble, Damien Grant has succumbed to the sinking lid of stupidity and thrashed out

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Sympathy for Scrooge

Sympathy for Scrooge

As one of The BFD’s Christmas posts noted, Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is almost single-handedly responsible to establishing many of the features of our traditional Christmas. It also gifted the English language with a new pejorative: Scrooge. Derived from the story’s protagonist, Ebeneezer Scrooge, a “scrooge”

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Jeffrey Tucker’s Thoroughly Excellent ‘Liberty or Lockdown’

John Tamny aier.org John Tamny, research fellow of AIER, is editor of RealClearMarkets. His book on current ideological trends is: They Are Both Wrong (AIER, 2019) What better way to begin a review of what is an excellent book than to say that the book’s author always knew.

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Electric Vehicle Shock Treatment: Lessons from Britain

Duggan Flanakin PA Pundits – International Duggan Flanakin is the Director of Policy Research at the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow. A former Senior Fellow with the Texas Public Policy Foundations, Mr. Flanakin authored definitive works on the creation of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and on environmental education in

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What “Capitalism” Really Means

Ludwig von Mises mises.org Ludwig von Mises was the acknowledged leader of the Austrian school of economic thought, a prodigious originator in economic theory, and a prolific author. Mises’s writings and lectures encompassed economic theory, history, epistemology, government, and political philosophy. His contributions to economic theory include important

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When Money Dies, 100 Years Later

When Money Dies, 100 Years Later

Jeff Deist mises.org Jeff Deist is president of the Mises Institute. He previously worked as chief of staff to Congressman Ron Paul, and as an attorney for private equity clients. When Money Dies, Adam Fergusson’s cautionary account of hyperinflation in Weimar-era Germany, is the book Americans desperately

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Employers Are Not the Enemy

Employers Are Not the Enemy

ACT Party “Labour must stop seeing employers as the enemy and avoid doing further harm to the productive sector,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “The Government was told its latest minimum wage hike will have a ‘disproportionately large’ negative impact on the number of jobs created over the coming year.

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Australia on the Brink of an Insolvency Crisis

Australia on the Brink of an Insolvency Crisis

Margaret Thatcher famously said that the problem with socialism was that sooner or later you run out of other people’s money. As much of the Western world descends into a medically-induced quasi-socialism (what else would you call a regime where the state rules which businesses may trade,

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