Wage differences between men and women often are automatically attributed to sex discrimination against women. However, as research has shown time and again, other factors are at work.
Original article: Discrimination and Opportunities for Women
Audio Mises Wire - Contrived Scarcity and Antitrust Lawsuits—“It’s Not a Bag, It’s a Birkin”
Birkin bags are pricey and the producer restricts its potential buyers. Unfortunately, disgruntled customers who don’t want to follow the company’s rules are now appealing to US antitrust law.
Original article: Contrived Scarcity and Antitrust Lawsuits—“It’s Not a Bag, It’s a Birkin”
Audio Mises Wire - Historical Revisionism: What It Is and What It Is Not
Historical revisionism is nothing new, and recent attempts to label an “antiracist” approach to history have wrongly been called “revisionist.” To better understand revisionism, one must first be grounded in reality, then apply reality-based thought to studying the past.
Original article: Historical Revisionism: What It Is and What It Is Not
Audio Mises Wire - How the Government Created Exorbitant Insulin Prices
Progressives blame the free market for insulin prices and want to impose price controls. But, government regulation is to blame.
Original article: How the Government Created Exorbitant Insulin Prices
Audio Mises Wire - Entrepreneurial Profit Follows Good Decisions, Not Exploitation
Employing the Labor Theory of Value, Marx claimed that entrepreneurial profits arise from exploitation of workers. In reality, entrepreneurs earn profits when they correctly gauge markets. Exploitation has nothing to do with it.
Original article: Entrepreneurial Profit Follows Good Decisions, Not Exploitation
Audio Mises Wire - Sound Money Movement Chalks Up Seven State Legislative Victories in 2024
Not all news from the gold and monetary fronts is bad. In fact, gold made a number of advancements in seven states, including exemptions from taxes and attempts by states to restrict Federal Reserve behavior. Gold is alive and well.
Original article: Sound Money Movement Chalks Up Seven State Legislative Victories in 2024
Audio Mises Wire - The Limits to Public Opinion and the Failure of Democracy
The watchword among progressives this election season is: “Nothing less than our democracy is at stake.” In truth, democracy itself is not in danger, but one can accurately say that “democracy,” as practiced in the US, endangers our lives.
Original article: The Limits to Public Opinion and the Failure of Democracy
Cato Daily Podcast - The Work Yet to Be Done to Free Workers from State Licensing
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What A Day - How Rebels Gained Control of Syria
President-elect Donald Trump stopped by 'Meet the Press' on Sunday for his first network sit-down interview since winning back the White House. During his hour-plus conversation, he reaffirmed his promise to pardon most of the people who violently stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, possibly on his first day back in office. And he said every person who sat on the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack "should go to jail." Those kinds of comments are exactly why the Biden Administration is reportedly weighing preemptive pardons for people who might become targets of Trump's Justice Department. Kim Wehle, a professor at the University of Baltimore School of Law and author of the book 'Pardon Power,' explains the significance of the presidential pardon.
Plus, we talked with Pod Save The World's Tommy Vietor about how a Syrian rebel militia group gained control of the country.
And in headlines: Trump says he can't guarantee Americans won't end up paying more for goods under his tariff plans, The U.S. Department of Agriculture orders testing of the nation's milk supply for bird flu, and Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral held its first mass on Sunday since a 2019 fire partially destroyed it.
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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - The End of Assad in Syria
After more than a decade of civil war, Syrian rebels have toppled President Bashar al-Assad’s regime in just about a week. How was the dictator finally deposed, and what comes next for the war-torn country?
Guest: Josh Keating, senior correspondent at Vox covering foreign policy.
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