Monthly Archive: June 2025

Fragile Cease-Fire Lifts Animal Spirits and Reverses the Greenback’s Gains

2025-06-24

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2025-06-24

It is not clear when the choreography began. US dramatic display, including dropping a dozen bunker-buster bombs on well telegraphed nuclear enrichment sites in Iran, and reports lend credibility to speculation that the enriched uranium had previously been removed.

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President Trump: End the War Now!

2025-06-24

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2025-06-24



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The Role of Behavioral Finance in Protecting Your Wealth

2025-06-24

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2025-06-24

Behavioral finance is a powerful lens through which we can better understand the relationship between human psychology and financial decision-making. While numbers and logic drive traditional investing models, real-world choices are often heavily influenced by emotions like fear, greed, and […] The post The Role of Behavioral Finance in Protecting Your Wealth appeared first on …

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Strait Of Hormuz Closure: Why It Hurts Iran Too

2025-06-24

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2025-06-24

Closing the Strait of Hormuz would have severe implications for global trade, most importantly oil. As the graphic below, courtesy of the EIA, shows, about 14 million barrels of oil and condensate flow through the Strait daily. That equates to […] The post Strait Of Hormuz Closure: Why It Hurts Iran Too appeared first on …

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As Japan’s Price Inflation Rises, Its Central Bank Has Fewer Options

2025-06-24

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2025-06-24

Unfortunately, the only real long-term solution to this is genuine fiscal austerity and debt repudiation.

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As Japan’s Price Inflation Rises, Its Central Bank Has Fewer Options

2025-06-24

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2025-06-24

Unfortunately, the only real long-term solution to this is genuine fiscal austerity and debt repudiation.

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The Purpose of Production and the Economy: A Criticism of Pronatalist Economics

2025-06-24

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2025-06-24

Mainstream economics is deterministic, holding that economic actors continue to move in one directions, not responding to changes in economic circumstances or incentives. The Austrians understand economics is about people engaged in purposeful action.

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Members of Congress Introduce Comprehensive US Gold Audit Legislation

2025-06-24

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2025-06-24

As US debt soars and foreign central banks stockpile gold, members of Congress introduce a bill to require a comprehensive audit of America’s gold reserves.

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Trump Suffers From “Libertarian Derangement Syndrome”

2025-06-24

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2025-06-24

Even though a significant number of libertarians supported Trump for president, he clearly has shown no respect for libertarian thinking, especially with his anti-growth trade policies and support for bloated federal spending.

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Hold-up sur l’eau potable (2/2) : la supercherie de « l’hydrogène vert ». Par Vincent Held

2025-06-24

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2025-06-24

Emmanuel Macron, le président qui avait décrété « la fin de l’abondance » de l’eau potable en août 2022, est également aux avant-postes du développement de « l’hydrogène vert ». Et c’est bien naturel, puisque l’imposant projet de réseau de « pipelines à hydrogènes » de l’UE servira en réalité à pomper des millions de m3 d’eau potable des régions montagneuses […]

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Are You Prepared for Your “One-Foot” Moment?

2025-06-23

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2025-06-23

It is one thing to understand economics and quite another to be able to explain how economics works. Those who favor free markets also need to be able to explain and defend them.

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Silver Price Shows What Government Has Done to Our Money

2025-06-23

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2025-06-23



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Meta-Thoughts on the War

2025-06-23

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2025-06-23

Decades of 'The Fog Machine of War' have jaded the public's appetite for 'Narrative Control'. The Fog of War is perhaps better described as The Fog Machine of War, for everything presented to the public is some version of Narrative Control, the purpose of which is to establish a context and story that's beneficial to whomever is presenting "facts," "news," "information" and "commentary."

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The Disasters of Government Enterprise

2025-06-23

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2025-06-23

Our socialist transit systems are an ongoing failure made worse by even more government intervention. We should not be surprised, then, when political leaders insist that the real problem is the lack of a political will to spend even more money on government enterprises.

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Does Transparent Monetary Policy Lead to Economic Stability?

2025-06-23

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2025-06-23

Monetarists and rational expectations economists believe that if monetary policy is transparent, then increases in the money supply will not have negative effects. The actual results say otherwise, as introducing new money into the economy leads to economic instability.

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Money Supply Rose for the Ninth Month in April as the Fed Again Leans Dovish

2025-06-23

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2025-06-23

Contrary to the narrative pushed by those who want more easy money, there is no monetary deflation or disinflation and the money supply continues to grow.

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Turkish Bank Garanti BBVA Kripto Partners with Wyden to Enhance Digital Asset Trading

2025-06-23

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2025-06-23

Wyden, a Zurich-based provider of institutional digital asset trading infrastructure for regulated institutions, has formed a strategic partnership with Garanti BBVA Kripto, a subsidiary of Garanti BBVA, one of Turkey’s largest banks. The collaboration aims to enhance Garanti BBVA Kripto’s digital asset trading services for both retail and corporate clients. Through the partnership, Garanti BBVA Kripto will offer trading pairs in Turkish Lira and...

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After Initial Reaction, Gold and Oil have Given Back Earlier Gains, and the Greenback Extends the Pre-Weekend Gains

2025-06-23

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2025-06-23

The US struck Iran amid subterfuge and misdirection and while damage was inflicted, it is not clear the extent to which is nuclear capability was destroyed. Now, the world waits for Tehran's retaliation. Still, gold is slightly softer and August WTI is slightly firmer.

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Behind The Meter Solutions: The Gas Powering AI

2025-06-23

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2025-06-23

As the building of AI and cloud data centers expands rapidly, the demand for energy to power these data centers grows. The problem, however, is that the existing power grid can’t keep up with the rapidly increasing demand. Furthermore, improving and expanding the power grid takes longer than building data centers.

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Members of Congress Introduce Comprehensive US Gold Audit Legislation

2025-06-23

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2025-06-23

As US debt soars and foreign central banks stockpile gold, members of Congress introduce a bill to require a comprehensive audit of America’s gold reserves.

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