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The Biden administration’s announcement in mid-April to withdraw American troops looks like a positive first step in the right direction in ending America’s longest military conflict to date. Undoubtedly, questions remain about the sincerity of such a withdrawal, and whether there will still be a residual military presence left over under the cloak of “counterterrorism” or some type of arrangement with private defense contractors to maintain order in the graveyard of empires. Looking back, it was rather amusing all the stops the corporate press pulled out to derail former president D...

Why Economic Models Can’t Provide a Realistic Picture of Human Behavior May 26th 2021, 4:17 pm Mises: "The experience with which the sciences of human action have to deal is always an experience of complex phenomena. No laboratory experiments can be performed with regard to human action." Image Credit: Email While in the natural sciences a laboratory experiment can isolate various elements and their movements can be followed through, there is no equivalent in the economic discipline. The introduction of econometrics and model building is an attempt to produce a laboratory where controlled ...

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

Mises on Nationalism, Colonialism, and the Right of Self-Determination For Mises, liberalism first emerged and expressed itself in the nineteenth century as a political movement in the form of “peaceful nationalism.” Its two fundamental principles were freedom or, more concretely, “the right of self-determination of peoples” and national unity or the “nationality principle.” The two principles were indissolubly linked. The primary goal of the liberal nationalist movements (Italian, Polish, Greek, German, Serbian, etc.) was the liberation of their peoples from the despotic rule of ...

ALL OR NONE: A Most Important Detail for Never Wearing a Face Mask Hey Allan, In Whole Foods yesterday, I had my scarf mask below my nose. A Whole Foods worker asked if I would pull my mask over my nose. I said “No, I can’t breathe like that.” He then said they have a sign telling me I’m supposed to wear a mask. I told him, I know I just can’t do it anymore.  He then told me we could have a happy medium. He asked if he could take my temperature and I could get rid of my mask. I told him sure!