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There Is a Swarm of Entitlement

Lindsay Mitchell Lindsay Mitchell has been researching and commenting on welfare since 2001. Many of her articles have been published in mainstream media and she has appeared on radio,tv and before select committees discussing issues relating to welfare. Lindsay is also an artist who works under commission and exhibits

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Why the ‘Super Wealthy’ Are Fleeing Norway

Jon Miltimore Jonathan Miltimore is the Managing Editor of FEE.org. His writing/reporting has been the subject of articles in TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, Fox News, and the Star Tribune. Bylines: Newsweek, The Washington Times, MSN.com, The Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller, The Federalist,

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Is This the Progressive Equivalent of Rent-Seeking?

Jeffery Marshall Dr Jeffery Marshall is a retired brigadier general with extensive experience in both the military and civil sectors. As an officer, he led the first multi-national team to rebuild the Afghan Security Forces and was the first J7 (Analysis and Assessments) at the US European Command. In the

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The Differences between Rich Countries and Poor

Lipton Matthews Lipton Matthews is a researcher, business analyst, and contributor to Merion West, The Federalist, American Thinker, Intellectual Takeout, mises.org and Imaginative Conservative. mises.org The scourge of poverty wounding citizens in the developing world has provoked much discussion in affluent countries. Quite unreasonably, rich countries have been

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Norway’s Wealth Tax Is Backfiring

Jon Miltimore Jonathan Miltimore is the Managing Editor of FEE.org. His writing/reporting has been the subject of articles in TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, Fox News and the Star Tribune. aier.org In 2022 Norway’s third richest man, Kjell Inge Røkke, announced in an

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The Fed Has Set the Stock Markets

Mike Holly Mike Holly received Master degrees in Business Administration and Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1980 and 1983, respectively. His health care article published on Mises Wire is an updated and condensed version of his MBA thesis. He did his internship at the Minnesota Department of

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It Really Was Just the Flu, Bro

Jordan Schachtel ronpaulinstitute.org Occam’s razor is not a one-size-fits-all problem-solving principle, but it’s oftentimes the most helpful philosophical approach to tuning out the noise and focusing on the most important facts to reconstruct what actually happened. And if we engage the Occam’s razor principle, the truth

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A Look at China’s Lithium Mines and BRI

A Look at China’s Lithium Mines and BRI

Dave Patterson National Security Correspondent at LibertyNation.Com. Dave is a retired US Air Force Pilot with over 180 combat missions in Vietnam. He is the former Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, Comptroller and has served in executive positions in the private sector aerospace and defense industry. In addition

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Solid Gold in a Broken World

Solid Gold in a Broken World

Matthew Piepenburg Matt began his finance career as a transactional attorney before launching his first hedge fund during the NASDAQ bubble of 1999-2001 goldswitzerland.com Below, we look at gold in a broke(n) world of hubris, debt, Realpolitik and a rising East. For well over a year, we’ve

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How Societies Are Kept Calm through Market Transactions

How Societies Are Kept Calm through Market Transactions

Julan Omir Aldover Julan Omir Aldover is a fourth-year Political Science student from Leyte Normal University, Philippines. fee.org When people hear the word profit, negative connotations often come to mind. For many, profits are the fruit of material greed, emblematic of inequality and the poor state of human nature.

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Why Do Governments Keep Pushing CBDCs?

Peter St Onge Peter St Onge is a Mises Institute associated scholar and an Economic Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation. St Onge received his PhD from George Mason University and was a 2014 Mises Institute Research Fellow. mises.org Governments worldwide are trying to replace cash with CBDCs, and

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Let Us Debunk the Excuses for Inflation

Let Us Debunk the Excuses for Inflation

Daniel Lacalle Daniel Lacalle, PhD, economist and fund manager, is the author of the bestselling books Freedom or Equality (2020), Escape from the Central Bank Trap (2017), The Energy World Is Flat? (2015) and Life in the Financial Markets (2014). mises.org Most politicians have used the ‘Ukraine invasion card’

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From OPEC with Love: The State of Oil Today

Andrew Moran Economics Editor at LibertyNation.com. Andrew has written extensively on economics, business, and political subjects for the last decade. He also writes about economics at The Epoch Times and financial markets at FX Daily Report. He is the author of The War on Cash. You can learn more

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What Has Happened to Our Fertility?

What Has Happened to Our Fertility?

Michael Cook Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. He lives in Sydney, Australia. mercatornet.com The Economist, an oracle for politicians, journalists and economists everywhere, has turned bearish on the future of humanity. The theme of its latest cover story is that world is running out of people. Exhibit

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I Hope I’m Wrong Again

I Hope I’m Wrong Again

Sometimes I hate being right. I don’t claim to be more than a moderately informed observer of economics, but even to me it seems pretty obvious that deep economic trouble lies in our near future. It gives me no joy to find that far better informed economic observers agree

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