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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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On the Trail of Covid Part 5

On the Trail of Covid Part 5

As we’ve seen in the earlier instalments of the latest investigations into the origins of Covid, the Wuhan Institute of Virology was doing all sorts of research on SARS-like coronaviruses between 2012 and 2019. It was helped along by Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance, which funnelled millions of dollars

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From the Desk of a Male Pale and Stale

Archaeological evidence suggests that tobacco was discovered in the Americas and was being cultivated and used by the indigenous culture as early as 5000 BC. It was introduced to Europe in the 16th century and became popular as smoking was often associated with a certain level of status or sophistication.

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The Mental Health of Our Children and Young People

Alwyn Poole Alwyn Poole founded and was the head of Mt Hobson Middle School in Auckland for 18 years. MH Academy is now an in person private school for Year 11-13. There is now a nationwide online provision called Mt Hobson Academy Connected for Years 1-13. alwynpoole.substack.com OPINION:

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On the Trail of Covid Part 4

On the Trail of Covid Part 4

The murky, patchwork trail of evidence of the origins of the Covid pandemic have so far exposed several certainties. The first is that it truly, as Donald Trump famously said, “came from China”. The wild viruses which became Covid in all its variants were retrieved from a remote mine in

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On the Trail of Covid Part 3

On the Trail of Covid Part 3

As we’ve seen so far, the trail leading to the origins of the Covid pandemic winds back at least as far as 2002, and the SARS outbreak in China. That outbreak showed public health authorities that hitherto mild coronaviruses – mostly associated with the common cold – could and were mutating

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On the Trail of Covid Part 2

On the Trail of Covid Part 2

As we’ve seen, the trail of the origin of the Covid pandemic – or as it should really be called, the Wuhan pandemic – has been traced, by bits and pieces of tantalising forensic work, to the Chinese city of Wuhan. More exactly, the arrows of the remaining evidence the Chinese

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On the Trail of Covid Part 1

On the Trail of Covid Part 1

Slowly, but surely, investigators are worming into the cracks of the Great Firewall of China surrounding the origins of Covid. While Beijing has done its best to erase everything it can over the virus’ shadowy origins, whether a zoonosis that emerged in a “wet market” or an engineered virus that

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We Need a Peace President

Ron Paul ronpaulinstitute.org Most people agree that we are closer to nuclear war than at any time since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Some would even argue that we are closer now than we were in those fateful days, when Soviet missiles in Cuba almost triggered a nuclear war

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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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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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Green Monkeys, You Say?

Robert Kogon Robert Kogon is a pen name for a widely published financial journalist, translator and researcher working in Europe. brownstone.org Citing microbiologist Kevin McKernan, the Epoch Times reports that green monkey DNA has been found in mRNA-based Covid-19 vaccines. This has led DD Denslow to note in a

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Where Will Products Come From?

Where Will Products Come From?

Ronald Stein Ronald Stein is an engineer, senior policy advisor on energy literacy for CFACT and co-author of the Pulitzer Prize nominated book Clean Energy Exploitations. cfact.org Just for electricity from EV batteries and the electricity occasionally generated from wind turbines and solar panels, the World Bank estimates that

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St Peter Climbs Out of His Grave

Harry Palmer I asked the driver of the empty bus parked at its terminus stop outside Manchester Airport what time he was scheduled to leave for the centre of Manchester. Before he could respond a woman behind me piped up and advised that the bus in the adjoining bay was

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Need Fossil Fuels to Better Fight Fires

Connor Mortell Connor Mortell graduated from Texas Christian University with a BBA in finance, minoring in Chinese language and culture. After graduation, he worked as a legislative aide in the Florida House of Representatives from 2019–21. Currently he is an MBA student at Florida State University. Additionally, he is

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