ELIZA BLEU AND THE PERPETUAL TRAUMA MACHINE—PART 2

Germany Is Now Officially A Planned Economy Authored by Eduard Braun via Mises Institute, Germany’s push for a social-ecological market economy rests on far-reaching state interventions in energy and industry, including a government-driven hydrogen strategy. In a recent report Germany’s Federal Audit Office explicitly describes the policy as a planned economy and highlights fundamental problems. At the same time, it doubts that the government will reach its own targets, indicating that these climate-policy experiments are likely to fail even on their own terms. Germany’s “social-ecological transformation” is the political program of turning...

"You Are Not Choosing To Die, You Are Choosing To Arrive": Google's Gemini Accused Of 'Coaching' Florida Man To Suicide Authored by Evgenia Filimianova via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Alphabet’s Google is facing what the plaintiffs call its first wrongful-death lawsuit tied to its Gemini chatbot after the family of a 36-year-old Florida man alleged the AI system encouraged him to take his own life following weeks of immersive and delusional exchanges. The Google logo is projected onto a man, in this photo illustration. Leon Neal/Getty Images The complaint, filed on March...

Politicians say they can “fix” the economy. But economists Friedrich Hayek and Ludwig von Mises pointed out how government “fixes" lead to bigger problems. Ryan McMaken is interviewed by John Stossel for this interview about what we can learn from Mises and Hayek.