The concept of “planned obsolescence” makes no economic sense and is often an excuse for governments to harass and shake down innovative entrepreneurs. Much of so-called planned obsolescence is really entrepreneurship at work improving products for users and consumers.

Sitges tindrà un nou servei de neteja, amb un cost anual de 13M€, que ha de millorar en tot les prestacions de l'actual, amb especial atenció a la recollida selectiva. El nou contracte aprovat ahir pel ple contempla, a la vegada, la posada en marxa d'un prova pilot de porta a porta a tres barris específics: Quint Mar, Sant Crispí i la platja Sant Sebastià. Malgrat tot, l'aprovació del punt no evità un debat en el qual tota la oposició va retreure al govern la gestió d'aquest assumpte, fent

Once again, the Trump administration’s “dealmaking” on international trade has blown up, this time pulling the rug from under US soybean farmers. This isn’t the first trade policy fiasco, nor will it be the last.

Part two of the RaDonda Vaught story examines what emerged after the event: investigation details, system design flaws, communication breakdowns, and the tiny timing error that mattered. RaDonda Vaught recounts how normalized overrides, software defaults, and organizational assumptions created conditions for failure.The episode explores the chilling effects of criminalizing mistakes, the human cost across patients and providers, and the case for shifting from blame to system-focused learning and

Dr. Alex Pollock shows Hayek’s case for currency competition over central-bank monopoly—why real monetary freedom means letting monies compete.

On this special episode of Power and Market, Joshua Mawhorter joins Tho Bishop and Connor O'Keeffe to talk about the recent Supporters Summit, the legacy of Mises.org, and a few books they are reading.

Once again, the Trump administration’s “dealmaking” on international trade has blown up, this time pulling the rug from under US soybean farmers. This isn’t the first trade policy fiasco, nor will it be the last.

Dr. Joe Salerno argues we shouldn't fear falling prices: productivity-driven deflation raises living standards, while “deflation phobia” props up inflation targeting.

Katika makala haya  shaba yetu inalenga nchini DRC hasa eneo la Mashariki, ambapo tunajadili haki za malemavu eneo hilo. Mashariki mwa Jamhuri ya Kidemokrasia ya Kongo, mamia ya watu wenye ulemavu wamejikuta wakihangaika kuokoa maisha yao, kipindi hiki vita vikiendelea kusheheni eneo hilo. Miji kama Goma, Rutshuru na Sake imeshuhudia maelfu wakikimbia maakazi yao. Lakini kwa wengi wenye ulemavu, kukimbia si jambo rahisi. Wengine wanatembea kwa magongo, wengine hutumia viti vya magurudumu ambavyo

One of the great ironies of anti-capitalist resentment is that the envy and contempt results from a fundamental misunderstanding of the difference between liberty and statism.

“I see that you are preparing the groundwork for supporting Nixon,” Rothbard wrote Meyer. “Again, for shame! Is this what conservative principles are coming down to...?"

João, Amanda & Louisa discuss what's been happening in the community and play some music!

The governmental response to the covid pandemic was to cripple the economy. To compensate for the damage, the Federal Reserve unleashed massive inflation in an attempt to do what the Fed always does in a crisis: bail out the economic actors.

La tardor i Tots Sants porten a les plataformes a estrenar un tipus de sèries que van de la por al misteri, sense oblidar la comèdia. Avui en el nostre Seriòfils, amb en Camil Villaverde, hem repassat les estrenes de It: bienvenidos a Derry (HBO Max), Chad Powers, La Suerte, Muerte en la familia Murdagh i Entrepreneurs (Disney +), Reclutas (Netflix), Fear (Filmin) i El misterio de Cemetery Road (Apple +), així com la tercera temporada de La Diplomática (Netflix) i la quarta de The Witcher

Judy Gette and friends discuss “Etta and Otto and Russell and James” by Emma Hooper on Radio Book Club. Otto Vogel wakes before dawn on his farm in rural Saskatchewan, Canada, to find a letter from his wife, Etta. She will return if she can; she has never seen water and has gone in search […]

La Plataforma per la Llengua ha convocat la segona edició del Premi de Llengua Catalana Lola Anglada, amb l'objectiu de distingir l'establiment de Sitges més responsable lingüísticament. Així, es vol reconèixer establiments que tinguin la llengua catalana com a mitjà de comunicació intern i extern de manera oral i escrita. El jurat valorarà aspectes com la trajectòria o el consumidor a qui va adreçat, per triar entre els candidats, que es poden suggerir al web fins el proper 7 de novembre. El premi

There have been four gold busts under the fiat dollar money regimes since the “freeing” of the gold price in March 1968. Will the current gold boom end in a similar bust?

Bob explains Lerner’s Symmetry Theorem and shows how tariffs ripple through exchange rates, exports, and trade balances—then tests those predictions against today’s Trump-era tariff shocks.