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** WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 2019
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When the baker provides the dentist with bread and the dentist relieves the baker’s toothache, neither the baker nor the dentist is harmed. It is wrong to consider such an exchange of services and the pillage of the baker’s shop by armed gangsters as two manifestations of the same thing. Foreign trade differs from domestic trade only in so far as goods and services are exchanged beyond the borderlines separating the territories of two sovereign nations.
– Ludwig von Mises, Human Action ([link removed]) [1949]
** HORNBERGER'S BLOG
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August 14, 2019
Maduro's Brutality Reminds Us of U.S. Brutality ([link removed])
When I was kid, the last thing I ever thought was that I would end up living in a country whose government has the power to torture people. I was taught that only brutal dictatorships do that. And yet, here I am, many years later, living under a government that is empowered to torture people, including American citizens. In the ...
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