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From record-breaking passenger numbers, to some more record-breaking numbers - courtesy of the Men’s football World Cup. We look forward to what 2026 might have in store for us - numerically of course.
Presenter: Tim Harford Producers: Charlotte McDonald and Katie Solleveld Production Co-ordinator: Maria Ogundele Sound Mix: Rod Farquhar Editor: Richard Vadon
From an Austrian perspective, the Panic of 1893 provides key lessons, but this consequential panic has not received as much direct attention as it deserves.
Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/panic-1893-austrian-view
Demands for Americans to pay reparations to descendants of chattel slavery in America have been growing. The case for reparations, however, has always been weak and illogical.
Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/illogic-reparations-historical-standards-selective-memory-and-logic-victory
A wearisome part of modern life is the incessant chants of “doomsday” from intellectual, academic, political, and media elites. That their six decades of predictions all have been wrong only leads them to double down on the volume of their claims.
Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/new-year-we-will-hear-even-more-environmental-doom-because-doomsday-industry-never-rests
In the wake of WWI, Pope Pius XI reminded his readers that governments instituted by men can never be perfect, and they cannot even be good if they neglect natural law.
Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/rise-state-and-fall-natural-law
As government continues to engage in reckless actions from inflation to starting wars, people develop shorter time horizons, creating social vacuums. Increased gambling and other irresponsible behaviors then fill the void.
Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/kalshi-culture-how-gambling-speculation-and-degeneracy-went-mainstream
In theory, the Constitution should safeguard individual liberty by giving citizens a bulwark against state tyranny. However, the Constitution actually advanced federal government power or failed to ultimately prevent it.
Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/constitution-weak-reed