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Although most political attention is focused on the US presidency, James Bovard pleads guilty to contempt of Congress. This is the Congress that is spending and borrowing the country into financial oblivion, but never taking the blame for the results.
Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/my-46-years-contempt-congress
Reich, Elizabeth Warren, and other leftists never address the root cause of what they correctly diagnose as excessive corporate power: the Federal Reserve.
Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/robert-reichs-blind-spots-elephant-progressive-lefts-room
Innovations aren‘t very useful unless they serve consumers in the marketplace. Otherwise, we‘re pursuing innovation for its own sake, and that isn‘t progress.
Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/intellectual-property-innovation-should-serve-consumers-not-producers
American corporations are lavishing billions of dollars on leftist groups in the name of “equity.” But many of them are also donating to even more questionable people and causes.
Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/putrid-underbelly-woke-capitalism
The Efficient Market Hypothesis claims that financial markets process information immediately and correctly. However, since the EMH is based upon unrealistic assumptions, we also have to question the efficacy of this hypothesis, especially when central banks intervene in the markets.
Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/do-financial-markets-operate-upon-superior-knowledge
The poet, the opera, and the Terror: when art dares to confront the violence of power. How one artist portrays the French Revolution and the political terror it unleashed is a grim reminder of what today's Bastille Day celebrations ignore.
Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/guillotine-and-lyre-what-andrea-chenier-reveals-about-french-revolution
Murray Rothbard called egalitarianism a "revolt against nature," and he believed that the egalitarianism inherent in the Fourteenth Amendment was socially harmful. Social engineering never turns out well, but that doesn't discourage progressives from engaging in it.
Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/social-engineering-under-fourteenth-amendment