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Doug Casey on How Economic Witch Doctors Convince Everyone They’re Neurosurgeons

by Doug Casey via International Man International Man: The average person doesn’t care about economics. But to the extent that he does, he only reads mainstream publications like The Economist and editorials in The New York Times. In these publications, the average person will find so-called economists advocating upside-down and destructive concepts like negative interest […]

What Is Socialism and How Can We Fight It?

Do have the feeling that socialism is bad, but don’t know why or what to do about it? Are you looking for tools to reverse its surging popularity with the younger generations? Then, watch this excellent video by the Mises Institute. It explains the problems with socialism in less than four minutes. More importantly, the […]

“People Will Die” and Social Control

As many great economists know, there are really no solutions in life; there are only trade-offs. Everything we do in life requires some amount of cost-benefit analysis, some amount of trade-off. Predictably, the “people will die” argument is usually employed by those seeking to shut down any critical discussion or comparative analysis of trade-offs. “People […]