Profiting from Government Didn’t Begin with Trump
https://mises.org/mises-wire/profiting-government-didnt-begin-trump

By Connor O’Keeffe
> Trump has made his family billions by courting foreign and corporate money and accepting extravagant gifts while in office. But he didn’t bring self-enrichment to Washington, he simply made it much harder to ignore.

https://stacker.news/items/1556461

The Wealth Tax Revival Is Repeating a Failed Experiment
https://mises.org/mises-wire/wealth-tax-revival-repeating-failed-experiment

By Lipton Matthews
> California is looking to impose a new wealth tax to fleece the state’s billionaires. While supporters of the tax claim it will raise more than $100 billion, it is likely to send the billionaires fleeing elsewhere, as it did in Sweden and Colombia.

https://stacker.news/items/1556429

The Penal Leviathan: What Wacquant and Rothbard Reveal About Modern Punishment
https://mises.org/mises-wire/penal-leviathan-what-wacquant-and-rothbard-reveal-about-modern-punishment

By Luc Lelièvre
> The modern way of dealing with criminal behavior has been mass incarceration, yet crime abounds. Murray Rothbard believed that restitution and other methods were superior to the present state-run system.

https://stacker.news/items/1555671

Social Trust Is a Superpower
https://mises.org/mises-wire/social-trust-superpower

By Jimmy Alfonso Licon
> We are told ad nauseum that the capitalist system runs on greed. In reality, a successful economy depends mostly upon trust.

https://stacker.news/items/1555328

Regulation: Protecting Incumbents and Suppressing Competition
https://mises.org/mises-wire/regulation-protecting-incumbents-and-suppressing-competition

By Hal Snarr
> Politicians sell business regulation as benefiting consumers. In reality, as we saw from airline regulation, the system creates cartels that shut out consumers and benefit regulated businesses.

https://stacker.news/items/1555231

The Statist Peril of Techno-Asset Inflation
https://mises.org/mises-wire/statist-peril-techno-asset-inflation

By Brendan Brown
> From the sixteenth century to today, techno-asset inflation is found where monetary inflation and technological revolution interact to produce virulent asset inflation.

> The positive supply shock emanating from the technological revolution bears down on goods and services prices. This expands the scope for monetary inflation by impeding an intensification of its symptoms in goods and services markets.

I recall making a similar comment to @SimpleStacker about this recently. Especially in a world of inflation targets, technological advances pushing prices down in one sector must be offset by higher than normal inflation, in order to keep average prices steady or increasing.

https://stacker.news/items/1554310

Stacker Sports Pod • Episode 97: Showtime Sold and Cutdown Countdown
https://www.fountain.fm/episode/rxIrblDZl9mxRdMbqfm8

> Undisciplined and GrayRuby talk fantasy football, preseason NFL, Lakers sale and more.

At this point, we must be one of the leading WNBA podcasts.

https://stacker.news/items/1553257