New York City subways are in deep financial trouble and the quality of service is in a downward spiral. Yet even talking about privatization is verboten. Original Article: "New York Politicians Have No Idea How to Fix the Subways" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by
Just as Canada had the right to secede from Britain, so too do the provinces and territories have a right to secede from Canada. Today, secession may be Alberta’s remedy against the Canadian regime's abuses. Original Article: "Canadian Secession: Then and Now" This Audio Mises Wire is
Nothing will come of nothing.Shakespeare, King Lear If, as we are often told, the aim of art is to shock the bourgeoisie, then the contemporary art scene has become positively electric of late. In the most recent aesthetic outrage, a Sardinian artist named Salvatore Garau managed
I had joined The Economic Transcript and an orientation session had been scheduled for us. I happened to have a long day. I was not in the best spirits when I sat before the laptop for yet another online session.At the end of it, I
It’s been said by democracy’s critics that the system is essentially two wolves and a sheep deciding what’s for dinner. But to its defenders, democracy has been described as an ethical ideal and a way of life—these conceptions nearly implying a metaphysical manifestation Original Article: "Democracy
The twentieth century was a century of secession. Since the end of the Second World War, the number of independent states in the world has nearly tripled as new states, through acts of secession, have come into existence. This was driven largely by the wave
Jeff Deist and David Gornoski talk about some of the recent news and relevant topics such as the buying up of homes by Black Rock; the federal reserve’s connection to big corporations; the out of control state of the Fed’s reverse REPO market; and what
It has often been asserted that we should cooperate rather than compete in society. For instance, FDR said, “Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins
While the recent clamp-down on power from public universities has mainly been in the realm of speech and expression, like almost every other government institution, they have used covid-19 as an opportunity to control students further. Original Article: "Government Schools Use Covid as an Excuse to
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