mises.org: ESG Undermines Social Welfare -- -- Politicians and hedge funds that push “Environmental, Social, and Governance” (ESG) scores and investing do so with the notion of improving social welfare. What they fail to realize is that these concerns are accounted for in human action already. #liberty #news
reason.com: Massachusetts Ex-Cop Charged With Strangling Pregnant Woman and Staging Her Death as a Suicide  -- -- Matthew Farwell allegedly murdered a 23-year-old woman who was pregnant with his child. Their relationship is said to have began when she was 15. He was 27. #liberty #news
mises.org: Why Military Conscription Is Worse Than Slavery -- https://tinyurl.com/27b3x7w8 -- If the government can conscript you into its army, can cause your death or mutilation in some war that has nothing to do with national defense, and can execute you if you resist, then it can do anything to you at any time, for any reason — or without bothering to give a reason. #liberty #news
mises.org: The Wisdom of Herbert Butterfield -- https://tinyurl.com/28oct43k -- Herbert Butterfield, who taught history at Cambridge, had many insights on the sea changes brought about by World War I and the collapse of the Old World Order. The new order that followed, he realized, was not an improvement over what previously existed. #liberty #news
reason.com: Hair-Braiding Business Denied Permission To Operate Over Fears of Competition -- -- Since when do government officials get to decide that a market is “oversaturated”? #liberty #news
mises.org: The Euro Is a Frankenstein-Currency -- https://tinyurl.com/29p89xd4 -- It may not have been manufactured in the lab of a mad scientist, but the euro is still a manufactured, cobbled-together currency made from a number of national monetary units. Indeed, it is the perfect Frankenstein currency. #liberty #news
mises.org: Federal Jobs Report Slices Total Jobs in New Revision -- -- We already knew recent jobs report—as far as the establishment survey is concerned, were based largely on made up numbers. #liberty #news
mises.org: Why the Crony Class Loves Artificially-Low Interest Rates—And Why You Shouldn’t -- -- A few years ago, the leftist publication The Intercept claimed that inflation only hurts the “one percent,” but is “good” for everyone else. The truth is much different, as the Fed’s inflationary policies have benefited the politically-connected crony class. #liberty #news
mises.org: FISA: How a Watergate-Era “Reform” Turned into a Mechanism of Massive State Surveillance -- -- The flurry of post-Watergate “reforms” supposedly were passed to counteract government abuse of citizens. Not surprisingly, the FISA program, which was aimed at reducing internal government spying became the means of massive growth of the surveillance state. #liberty #news
reason.com: The Military Tried To Hide Evidence of a Massacre. A Lawsuit Just Exposed It. -- -- The New Yorker sued for photos of the Haditha killings in Iraq—and found audio of a Marine general bragging about covering up those photos. #liberty #news