The Real Elites vs. The Ruling Elites https://mises.org/mises-wire/real-elites-vs-ruling-elites By Ryan McMaken > Those who become “elites” through the initiation of violence, and through the looting of others, have always been frauds and imposters. https://stacker.news/items/1562686

I have a similar approach to learning. You can get pretty far on a wide variety of things by being observant, curious, and reflective, without needing to do much memorization. https://fountain.fm/episode/gx0GZYl3YHReHo07f4jg View quoted note →

The High Cost of the Automated Flock-Camera Surveillance State https://mises.org/mises-wire/high-cost-automated-flock-camera-surveillance-state By Ryan McMaken > The future of Flock cameras: left the house during a pandemic lockdown? Expect a summons in the mail. Exceeding your “carbon footprint” by driving too much? Expect a ticket in the mail. https://stacker.news/items/1560680

When will Mendoza Start?

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Trump Censorship Machine Loses Again in Court https://mises.org/mises-wire/trump-censorship-machine-loses-again-court By James Bovard > The Trump administration’s crackdown on students protesting against Israel has once again run into the law, this time in the form of a federal court ruling against the government. https://stacker.news/items/1560299

What Do “Capitalism” and “Socialism” Really Mean? https://mises.org/mises-wire/what-do-capitalism-and-socialism-really-mean By Vincent Cook > Ask a socialist critic of capitalism how to define capitalism and you will probably receive an incoherent answer. Defining these ways of social organization is vital and understanding them is even more important. https://stacker.news/items/1559548

The Arday Tragedy: A Story of Institutional Failure, Not a Witch Hunt https://mises.org/mises-wire/arday-tragedy-story-institutional-failure-not-witch-hunt By Lipton Matthews > The left is trying to reframe the Jason Arday affair as a witch hunt in which a racist media and a jealous professor hounded him to suicide. However, it was Cambridge University that failed, not those that sought the truth. https://stacker.news/items/1559517

3 Reasons the French Revolution Was So Different from the American Revolution https://mises.org/mises-wire/three-reasons-why-french-revolution-was-so-different-american-revolution By Ryan McMaken > In America, French-style violence was simply unnecessary for the revolutionaries to win. We will never know if the Americans might have resorted to greater violence in different circumstances. 1. **Political Centralization Was at the Center of the Revolution** 2. **Revolutionary France Faced Strong Neighbors in a Geopolitical Struggle** 3. **Demographic Pressure: Population and Poverty** https://stacker.news/items/1558114

Nationality: You Belong to the State https://mises.org/mises-wire/nationality-you-belong-state By Ulrich Fromy > There are two types of nationality. The first, as defined by Ludwig von Mises, involves people united by common languages and customs. The second is defined by the state. https://stacker.news/items/1557864

Profiting from Government Didn’t Begin with Trump https://mises.org/mises-wire/profiting-government-didnt-begin-trump By Connor O’Keeffe > Trump has made his family billions by courting foreign and corporate money and accepting extravagant gifts while in office. But he didn’t bring self-enrichment to Washington, he simply made it much harder to ignore. https://stacker.news/items/1556461

The Wealth Tax Revival Is Repeating a Failed Experiment https://mises.org/mises-wire/wealth-tax-revival-repeating-failed-experiment By Lipton Matthews > California is looking to impose a new wealth tax to fleece the state’s billionaires. While supporters of the tax claim it will raise more than $100 billion, it is likely to send the billionaires fleeing elsewhere, as it did in Sweden and Colombia. https://stacker.news/items/1556429

The Penal Leviathan: What Wacquant and Rothbard Reveal About Modern Punishment https://mises.org/mises-wire/penal-leviathan-what-wacquant-and-rothbard-reveal-about-modern-punishment By Luc Lelièvre > The modern way of dealing with criminal behavior has been mass incarceration, yet crime abounds. Murray Rothbard believed that restitution and other methods were superior to the present state-run system. https://stacker.news/items/1555671

Social Trust Is a Superpower https://mises.org/mises-wire/social-trust-superpower By Jimmy Alfonso Licon > We are told ad nauseum that the capitalist system runs on greed. In reality, a successful economy depends mostly upon trust. https://stacker.news/items/1555328

Regulation: Protecting Incumbents and Suppressing Competition https://mises.org/mises-wire/regulation-protecting-incumbents-and-suppressing-competition By Hal Snarr > Politicians sell business regulation as benefiting consumers. In reality, as we saw from airline regulation, the system creates cartels that shut out consumers and benefit regulated businesses. https://stacker.news/items/1555231

The Statist Peril of Techno-Asset Inflation https://mises.org/mises-wire/statist-peril-techno-asset-inflation By Brendan Brown > From the sixteenth century to today, techno-asset inflation is found where monetary inflation and technological revolution interact to produce virulent asset inflation. > The positive supply shock emanating from the technological revolution bears down on goods and services prices. This expands the scope for monetary inflation by impeding an intensification of its symptoms in goods and services markets. I recall making a similar comment to @SimpleStacker about this recently. Especially in a world of inflation targets, technological advances pushing prices down in one sector must be offset by higher than normal inflation, in order to keep average prices steady or increasing. https://stacker.news/items/1554310