janeiro 2025

You used to think some way, similar to most people. Then you found something,. Then you change your mind. Then it change your life and life strategies. For example, I used to think reasoning is useful. Then I learn humans have hidden motives that do not show up on reasoning. That is why many wise people like Carnegie says to avoid arguments. Instead of arguments I should have bargaining position. People don’t steal my stuff because there are […]

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Tweet The Editorial Board of the Wall Street Journal relays the undeniable news that fiscal realities are not optional. A slice: Say what you will about 2025, the year is off to a rocky start for anyone who needs to figure out how to fund a government. Bond yields are rising across the developed world, raising some awkward questions about when politics will catch up with new economic realities. In the U.S., 10- and 30-year Treasury yields are […]

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With all the talk about government efficiency, it would be useful to remind ourselves why bureaucracies differ radically from for-profit businesses. Ludwig von Mises devoted a short but enlightening volume to this subject in 1944, Bureaucracy. Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, who will co-chair the nongovernmental Department of Government Efficiency, should do some homework by reading that book. Mises, as an advocate of limited government, did not argue that bureaucracy has no place in a free society. In […]

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The debate over use of nuclear weapon is built upon the assumption that they‘ve only been used twice, both against Japan. However, if we expand the definition of use to how we apply it to other kinds of weapons, then nuclear weapons have been used too many times.

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I care about taxes, business friendliness and freedom. I’m split between u.s, Switzerland and Ireland. I’d love to hear your opinions with explanations Please and thank you. submitted by /u/QueasyInspector5767 [link] [comments]

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Tweet … is from a caption to an image on the final page – just before page 459 in the text – of the pictures section of Gordon Wood’s marvelous 2009 volume, Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815; specifically, the caption accompanies this painting (circa 1811-1813) by Pavel Svinin: Stagecoach was the major means of travel in the early Republic. Since the coaches averaged about two to three miles per hour, the trip from […]

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