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  • Information Age Warfare: When Propaganda Overpowered Sheer Numbers

    Information Age Warfare: When Propaganda Overpowered Sheer Numbers0

    It was the sinking of a British boat by a German torpedo that began to push the United States toward entering World War I. For many Americans the attack on the ocean liner Lusitania in May 1915 and the subsequent death of an estimated 1,198 people including 128 Americans solidified the belief that Germany was

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  • Inflation Veering Toward 1 Million Percent in Collapsing, Socialist Venezuela

    Inflation Veering Toward 1 Million Percent in Collapsing, Socialist Venezuela0

    Venezuela’s inflation may hit 1 million percent by the end of the year, the International Monetary Fund announced on Monday. This incredible hyperinflation is reminiscent of Weimar Germany during the years immediately after World War I, in which wheelbarrows full of cash were required to buy bare essential items, like a loaf of bread.   That pile

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  • Inflation Has Consequences

    Inflation Has Consequences0

    • August 24, 2015

    From the Austrian School economist who studied under Ludwig von Mises. The quote, often misattributed to Henry Hazlitt, is found in Sennholz’s article, “Indexing: New Version of an Old Myth,” in Inflation Survival Letter, July 1, 1974. Save this article to favorites

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  • Infernal Inflation: What Goethe’s Devil Can Teach Us About Economics

    Infernal Inflation: What Goethe’s Devil Can Teach Us About Economics0

    Disguised in the form of a fool, the devil visits a young emperor. The unfortunate ruler bemoans his nation’s ragged economy to the archdemon. However, the devil develops a solution: flood the country with paper money. The emperor praises the wise fool, and soon puts the plan into action. This early scene of the fascinating

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  • Infectious Disease Expert Calls for End to Lockdowns

    Infectious Disease Expert Calls for End to Lockdowns0

    In 2010, The Atlantic said that Dr. John Ioannidis “may be one of the most influential scientists alive.”  The article, written by David H. Freedman, made it clear the Greek-American physician-scientist’s rising star stemmed in part from the fearlessness he demonstrated in challenging bad science in the medical research field.  “[Ioannidis is] what’s known as

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  • Indoctrination in American Schools: How bad is it?

    Indoctrination in American Schools: How bad is it?0

    (The above image is that of a jacket worn by a teacher in a West Virginia public school.) The father of America’s public education system, Horace Mann, famously quipped: “Men are cast-iron, but children are wax.“ Mann knew that education was never a “value-neutral” proposition. It has always been and always will be a process

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