Monthly Archive: November 2024

The Menace of Tariffs

2024-11-19

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2024-11-19

Donald Trump is a strong believer in protective tariffs, and this is very bad news for those of us who support the free market. In Trump’s opinion, tariffs are a great idea. Here is what he said about them in an interview last month: “Trump has proposed a 10 percent across-the-board tariff on all imports and 60 percent on goods from China. During Tuesday’s remarks, he singled out imported cars for higher trade duties, saying he would slap a100, 200...

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Geopolitics Roil Capital Markets

2024-11-19

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2024-11-19

Within hours of the US giving permission to Ukraine to use US weapons to strike Russian territory, which it did, Moscow announced a change it is nuclear doctrine that allow for the use of nuclear weapons against a conventionally armed adversary that is backed by nuclear powers.

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Freedom Does Not Mean Appointing New Taskmasters

2024-11-19

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2024-11-19

Reminder: I’ll be speaking at the JFK Lancer conference and also at the CAPA conference.  The Lancer conference is being held on November 22-24 in Dallas. The CAPA conference is now being held online. There is also another excellent JFK conference on the same weekend sponsored by the JFK Historical Group.

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Gresham’s Law: Bitcoin Will Save the World!

2024-11-19

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2024-11-19

What explains Bitcoin? Why does it exist and why is “nothing” worth $70,000 a piece? Moreover, there are millions of owners of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies and yet few real transactions take place relatively speaking. How does this relate to the coming of a BRICs currency, the reserve status of the petrodollar, and the War on Cash?

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Bitcoin im Blick: Die neuesten Krypto-News, die jeder kennen sollte

2024-11-19

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2024-11-19

Die Welt der Kryptowährungen, insbesondere von Bitcoin, ist von einer dynamischen Entwicklung geprägt. Täglich gibt es neue Nachrichten, Trends und Entwicklungen, die den Markt beeinflussen. Um immer auf dem Laufenden zu bleiben, ist es wichtig, die wichtigsten Entwicklungen im Blick zu behalten.

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Swiss banks failing environment, says WWF

2024-11-19

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2024-11-19

No Swiss bank in phase with environmental objectives Keystone-SDA Listen to the article Listening the article Toggle language selector...

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Why People Pay Higher Prices for Some Goods Relative to Others

2024-11-19

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2024-11-19

What is the Mises Institute? The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property...

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Nagel on Libertarianism and Other Things

2024-11-19

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2024-11-19

What is the Mises Institute? The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property...

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The Birth of “Irrational Exuberance”

2024-11-19

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2024-11-19

What is the Mises Institute? The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property...

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Answering the Confused Critics of Austrian Economics

2024-11-19

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2024-11-19

What is the Mises Institute? The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property...

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Kamala Harris’s Price-Fixing Scheme Would Lead to Food Shortages

2024-11-19

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2024-11-19

What is the Mises Institute? The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property...

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If Republicans Are Against Lawfare, They Shouldn’t Have Unleashed It

2024-11-19

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2024-11-19

What is the Mises Institute? The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property...

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Ten Lessons on US Foreign Policy from Enough Already

2024-11-19

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2024-11-19

What is the Mises Institute? The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property...

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How a Swiss farming simulator became a global gaming phenomenon

2024-11-19

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2024-11-19

In the new Farming Simulator, you can play on an East Asian map called "Hutan Pantai" in addition to a European and a North American map. There you can try your hand at wet rice cultivation. GIANTS SOFTWARE Listen to the article Listening...

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Gold Miners Enter The Bears Den

2024-11-19

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2024-11-19

Many investors consider a decline of 20% or more to be a bear market. We can debate the merit of the random 20% figure, but according to that definition, gold miners, down 25% from its peak on October 22, are in a bear market. We have noted numerous times in the last month or so … Continue reading »

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Yardeni And The Long History Of Prediction Problems

2024-11-19

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2024-11-19

Following President Trump's re-election, the S&P 500 has seen an impressive surge, climbing past 6,000 and sparking significant optimism in the financial markets. Unsurprisingly, the rush by perma-bulls to make long-term predictions is remarkable.

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The US Just Escalated its Proxy War with Russia. Rothbard Explains Why that’s a Problem.

2024-11-19

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2024-11-19

This week, the people who run the Biden administration escalated tensions between Russia and the US by giving the Ukrainian regime authorization to use American-made (and presumably American-funded) ATACMS ballistic missiles against targets inside Russia itself.This significantly raises the stakes of the US-Russia conflict because it put the US in the position of directly funding and encouraging attacks on Russian territory.In response, Kremlin...

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Nestlé aims to boost brand in search of growth

2024-11-19

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2024-11-19

Nestlé presents growth plan Keystone-SDA Listen to the article Listening the article Toggle language selector...

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The Relevance of the Natural Sciences Methods in Economics

2024-11-18

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2024-11-18

Popular understandings of economics often attempt to incorporate the methodology of natural sciences as the supposed key to economics. Some economic experts are of the view that the methods employed by the natural sciences, such as advanced mathematics, are important tools for the assessments of historical data to establish the state of an economy.

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Is America Turning Fascist?

2024-11-18

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2024-11-18

On October 25, ABC News published the results of a survey of 2,392 registered voters where 44 percent of the respondents said that Donald Trump is a fascist, while 23 percent said that Kamala Harris is a fascist.

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