The 53 Second, 22 Dollar Shortest Flight in the World
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How I awoke from being a socialist to a sane person – A review of ‘The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality’, by Ludwig von Mises
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By Andy Duncan, Vice-Chairman of Mises UK
Back in 1998, I was working in the filthy world of trade. I’d received this book from Mises.org one morning and had to wait until lunchtime before I could read it. I then sat in my car in a dreary supermarket car park and opened it up. It took less than an hour to get through. However, the clarity, the penetration, the directness, the sheer thrill of all those dense scales falling from my eyes melted my mind. Who was this Mises? And why had he made me feel so very uncomfortable?
Via the pages of this book, Mises had told me the truth about life, the universe, and everything. He’d tumbled the monuments in my mind, to Marx, by taking a wrecking ball to them.
This book essentially details the societally destructive power of human envy. Like a fine Bossa Nova dancer…
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David D. Friedman — A Positive Account of Rights (Budapest, 2018)
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Robert Bork: Supreme Court Nomination Hearings from PBS NewsHour and EMK Institute
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To Beat the Trade War, Companies Get Creative Breaking the Rules @WSJ
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What Did Peasants Eat in Medieval Times?
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Alan Dershowitz – The Case Against Impeaching Trump
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