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Audio Mises Wire - JFK and the Burden of Proof
We know what happened on November 22, 1963, at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, but there is a lot about that terrible day we don't know. But we also know that President Kennedy challenged the National Security State. Did it cost him his life?
Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/jfk-and-burden-proof
The Indicator from Planet Money - How to build abundantly
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Audio Mises Wire - The Politics of Guilt
From Reconstruction to George Floyd, the left‘s guilt industry has run at full speed. As Murray Rothbard wrote, it is time to stand up to those that use guilt as a social weapon.
Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/politics-guilt
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Audio Mises Wire - We Never Got to Torture Congress
Thanks to the endless “War Against Terror,” the US Government promoted methods of torture, including some borrowed from the sadistic torturers of the former Soviet Union. Congress stood by and let it happen.
Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/we-never-got-torture-congress
Cato Daily Podcast - Best of Cato Daily Podcast: Henry Clay, Cassius Clay and Political Compromise
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Audio Mises Wire - What Is the Rationale Behind Current US Tariff Policy?
The Trump administration has pursued a high tariff policy, reversing the movement to lower trade barriers around the world. The justification for this policy is the presence of trade deficits with other nations. However, what if US trade deficits don't matter?
Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/what-rationale-behind-current-us-tariff-policy
Audio Mises Wire - How High Egg Prices May Resemble High OPEC Cartel Oil Prices
While no one is accusing egg producers of colluding or price-fixing, from an economic standpoint, it certainly could be happening either by design or incidentally.
Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/how-high-egg-prices-may-resemble-high-opec-cartel-oil-prices
The Indicator from Planet Money - The dawn of search engines
From his conversations with Eric Corly the publisher of 2600, an iconic hacker magazine, best known under his hacker name Emmanuel Goldstein, to Clive Thompson a tech and culture writer to Steven Levy the author of "In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes our Lives" this excerpt digs into how search engines started.
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