For 150 years, Thanksgiving has been primarily an apolitical holiday that's really about family fun and eating a huge meal.
Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/thanksgiving-celebration-domestic-life
Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1478: Statue of Liberty
Episode: 1478 A sneak preview of the Statue of Liberty. Today, a sneak preview of the Statue of Liberty.
Audio Mises Wire - Thanksgiving Is a Celebration of Free Enterprise
The first English settlers in America learned a hard lesson about socialist economics in the early years of their new colonies as they faced starvation. Once they embraced free enterprise, however, they had something to be thankful for.
Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/thanksgiving-celebration-free-enterprise
Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2538: Cheese
Episode: 2538 Engineering Cheese Through the Millenia. Today, say "cheese."
Audio Mises Wire - Families Are the Key to Building Alternatives to the State
From the perspective of the state, the ideal society is one composed of single parents raising a small number of children in irreligious households.
Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/families-are-key-building-alternatives-state
Audio Mises Wire - Thanksgiving: Celebrating the Birth of American Free Enterprise
In the wilderness of the New World, the Plymouth Pilgrims had progressed from the false dream of communism to the sound realism of capitalism.
Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/thanksgiving-celebrating-birth-american-free-enterprise
Cato Podcast - Superabundance at Thanksgiving
Is your Thanksgiving dinner more or less affordable this year? Human Progress's Marian Tupy joins the Cato Institute's Ryan Bourne to discuss the political battle over affordability, the long-term costs of high inflation, and how time-prices show most goods becoming more abundant over time. Plus, the pair discuss human progress developments and why they are both thankful for the USA.
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The Indicator from Planet Money - Moochers, monopolists and market-based poverty help
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Articles of Interest - Gear: Chapter 6
"Gorpcore" emerges.... from (maybe, potentially) unexpected places.
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Cato Podcast - Energy Realism: Climate Policy Meets Actual Economics
Cato's Chad Davis and Travis Fisher examine the gulf between symbolic climate pledges and the real-world complexities of energy use — from EV carbon costs to fossil-fueled resilience against natural disasters. They argue that the “climate homicide” narrative misreads the data, and that abundant, affordable energy remains humanity’s greatest defense against climate risk.
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