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Ludwig von Mises sat down in 1920 and published a paper that ended the intellectual case for socialism, even if the socialists took another seven decades to notice.
The argument was precise. Mises showed that without private ownership of the means of production, there are no real prices for capital goods. Without prices, you cannot calculate profit and loss. Without profit and loss, economic planners have no way of knowing whether they are creating value or destroying it. They are flying blind, spending real resources with no feedback mechanism telling them whether the factory, the railway, or the grain depot was worth building. Every allocation becomes a guess dressed up as a decree.
This, he called the Socialist Calculation Problem, and nobody answered it. Oskar Lange tried in 1936, proposing that socialist planners could simulate prices by trial and error. Mises read this and was unimpressed (charitably put). Lange assumed you could reproduce the function of market prices without the institution that generates them: private property, genuine exchange, real skin in the game. You cannot fake the signal and expect accurate information.
The Soviet Union spent seventy years proving Mises right. Chronic shortages, misallocated steel, surplus winter boots in Georgia in July, famine engineered by committees convinced they understood grain supply better than the price system. The USSR collapsed in 1991 under the weight of precisely the inefficiencies Mises predicted in Vienna in 1920.
You are watching this play out again today, every time a government sets energy prices, rent ceilings, or pharmaceutical price caps, and then expresses shock at the resulting shortages. The calculation problem did not expire with the Soviet Union. Bureaucrats who override price signals recreate the same blindness Mises identified. Mises told you exactly what would happen.
This is 7-year-old William Evans.
He was found dead, tied up with duct tape in a closet. He had signs of being burned and tortured.
His mother and two men pretending to be women were arrested.
The media are lying about the kiIIers, calling them women.
A detective said this was one of the most disturbing cases of child ab*se he had ever seen.
Anyone who can do this to a child does not deserve to live.
Head Over Heels” is one of the most romantic and emotionally vulnerable songs. Released in 1985 on Songs from the Big Chair, it captures the excitement, uncertainty, and almost overwhelming feeling of falling deeply for someone.
Four years ago, I interviewed a woman whose home was seized over unpaid taxes.
But her house was worth $286K MORE than what she owed.
The Supreme Court now says that's unconstitutional.
Yet she still hasn’t gotten her money back:
A CRAZED, HOMELESS BLACK MAN RANDOMLY ST*BBED A WOMAN TO DE*TH ON A TRAIN IN BROAD DAYLIGHT IN ATLANTA...
...AND NOT A SINGLE MAINSTREAM MEDIA OUTLET HAS SAID A WORD ABOUT IT!!!!
EXACTLY LIKE IRYNA ZARUTSKA.
WHERE IS THE MEDIA COVERAGE?!!!!!!!!!!
@DijonaiVictoria DARVO (Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender), a psychological manipulation tactic where an abuser turns the tables when confronted. They deny the bad behavior, attack the person calling it out, and claim they are the real victim.
Let's lay out the math:
You own an NYC apartment that's been occupied by the same tenant for 30 years. It's rent-stabilized, so the tenant is paying substantially under market rate.
The tenant moves out / passes away, and legally, you're required to invest $100k into lead abatement, wiring, asbestos, etc., to bring the unit to code before you re-lease it to the next tenant.
But because of a 2019 law called the HSTPA (Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act), you can't raise the rent enough to cover the renovation costs.
You go to the bank to ask for a renovation loan. They say, "Can you pay it back?" You say, honestly, "No." They say "Denied," as they should.
Your only other option would be to pay cash out-of-pocket if you happen to have that kind of money laying around.
Your financial advisor says, "Why wouldn't you just put that money into T-bills, or TIPS, or long-term Treasuries? Or heck, even a high-yield savings account? Or a CD?"
You run the math and realize all of the above would pay a higher return.
So it doesn't make sense to pay cash. You can't get approved for a loan. And you can't legally rent out the apartment without doing this renovation work.
So you leave the apartment vacant.
There are 57,421 rent-stabilized vacant units in NYC, according to the latest data, which was released in June 2026.
That's about a 16.18% increase over the previous year, when NYC had 49,426 vacant units.
That trend line is worrying. And it's about to get worse.
This is INSANE. Chris Hansen demonstrated how easy it is for predators to groom kids on Roblox, so Roblox immediately banned him live on stage.
That’s right. They ban the people trying to expose the predators on their platform rather than the predators themselves.