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In Defense of Defaulting on the National Debt

2022-06-22

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2022-06-22

With the acknowledged national debt now a politically and economically unpayable $30 trillion (in reality, its unfunded liabilities are far greater), Americans should start to become acclimated to the realities of the United States’ eventual, inevitable default.

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Juneteenth and Secular Holidays as Tool of the Regime

2022-06-22

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2022-06-22

Last year Congress officially declared Juneteenth a federal holiday. While Very Serious talking heads attempted desperately to convince those that would listen that Juneteenth was a long-celebrated American holiday, the reality is that it was largely unknown around the nation prior to congressional action. The episode is a useful illustration of how the state weaponizes secular holidays to promote a larger cultural agenda.

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How Money Printing Destroyed Argentina and Can Destroy Others

2022-06-21

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2022-06-21

The most dangerous words in monetary policy and economics are “this time is different.” Argentine politicians’ big mistake is to believe that inflation is multicausal and that everything is solved with increasing doses of interventionism.

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Powell’s “Soft Landing” Is Impossible

2022-06-20

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2022-06-20

After more than a decade of chained stimulus packages and extremely low rates, with trillions of dollars of monetary stimulus fueling elevated asset valuations and incentivizing an enormous leveraged bet on risk, the idea of a controlled explosion or a “soft landing” is impossible.

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Even after Admitting She Underestimated Inflation, Janet Yellen Still Doesn’t Understand What It Is

2022-06-19

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2022-06-19

According to the June 1, 2022, Financial Times, Janet Yellen, the US Treasury secretary conceded she was wrong last year about the path inflation would take.

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On the Digital Future of Markets and Money

2022-06-18

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2022-06-18

Thank you very much for the invitation. I am delighted to have the opportunity to share some thoughts with you on a topic I am very much interested in and that I believe is of the utmost importance to people around the globe—and that is “the digital future of markets and money.”

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No, It’s Not “Greed” or “Price Gouging” that’s Driving up Gas Prices

2022-06-18

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2022-06-18

Both consumer prices and producer rose near to multi-decade highs last month. Price inflation rose to 8.6 percent while wholesale producer prices rose by more than 10 percent. In both cases, a significant factor behind rising prices—but certainly not the only factor—was high energy prices. This has been reflected in prices related to transportation and shipping.

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The Inverted Yield Curve and Recession

2022-06-17

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2022-06-17

The “yield curve” refers to a graph showing the relationship between the maturity length of bonds—such as one month, three months, one year, five years, twenty years, etc.—plotted on the x axis, and the yield (or interest rate) plotted on the y axis.1

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The Great Reset: Turning Back the Clock on Civilization

2022-06-17

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2022-06-17

The covid-19 pandemic featured an unprecedented fusion of the interests of large and powerful corporations with the power of the state. Democratically elected politicians in many countries failed to represent the interests of their own citizens and uphold their own constitutions and charters of rights.

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Even When There Is Inflation, the Fed STILL Fights Falling Prices

2022-06-16

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2022-06-16

Under any remotely sound money regime the aftermath of war and/or pandemic is highly likely to feature a sharp decline in the prices of goods and services on average. Even under unsound money regimes there are powerful forces operating towards lower prices once the war/pandemic recedes. Strong injections of monetary inflation, however, can overpower them.

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Slowing Money-Supply Growth in 2022 Points to Recession

2022-06-15

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2022-06-15

Money supply growth fell slightly in April, falling below March's eight month high. Even with March's bump in growth, though, money supply growth remains far below the unprecedented highs experienced during much of the past two years.

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Coach Shaw:HBCU coach starting Scouting company Miami Dade Basketball to help the kids get exposure

2022-06-14

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In this segment Coach, Shaw talks about starting Miami Dade basketball to help the South Florida basketball kids get exposure. want's to see the local kids compete.

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Interest Rates Are Rising, but the Fed Continues to Be Reckless

2022-06-14

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2022-06-14

The crushing issue of high inflation caused by central banks can no longer be downplayed. Public displeasure at the increasing currency devaluation has now forced monetary policy makers to act. The US Federal Reserve (Fed) has raised its key interest rate to 1 percentage point.

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Market Success Is about Giving People What They Want

2022-06-14

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2022-06-14

Economists are often examining the variables that lead to prosperity, but surprisingly, intelligence is rarely featured in this literature, despite its high replicability in research. Intelligence is a robust predictor of well-being, job performance, and other social outcomes.

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Coach Shaw:HBCU Coach on first year at Florida Memorial University & being Sun Conference champions

2022-06-13

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In this segment HBCU coach talks about his first year as assistant coach at Florida Memorial University and the success they had this season including winning the sun conference and making the tournament.

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Entrepreneurs and inflation – Per Bylund – Talks with Petri

2022-06-13

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Per Bylund talks about the root cause of inflation, how to deal with it and why founders have some inherent advantages. He also explains the fiat currency scam and explores the wonders of MMT.

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The Five Stages of Totalitarianism

2022-06-13

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2022-06-13

Fears of a growing totalitarian tendency in the US have swelled during 2020–22. But how close are we really to a totalitarian state? How have such regimes come about historically and what are the warning signs? This article will answer these questions by examining totalitarian regimes in the eighteenth and twentieth centuries and the pattern by which they came to power.

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What Is Stagflation and What Causes It?

2022-06-12

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2022-06-12

The occurrence of stagflation is associated with a situation of general strengthening in the momentum of prices while at the same time the pace of economic activity is declining. A famous stagflation episode occurred during the 1974û75 period, as year-on-year industrial production fell by nearly 13 percent in March 1975 while the yearly growth rate of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) jumped to around 12 percent.

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June 11, 2022

2022-06-11

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What Is Wrong with the Fed’s Inflationist Policy?

2022-06-11

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2022-06-11

Christopher Leonard’s book brings to mind the familiar line from Faust: “Two souls, alas! dwell in my breast.” Leonard offers a penetrating criticism of the Fed’s vast expansion of the money supply, which has won for him praise from the noted hard-money advocate and friend of the Mises Institute James Grant.

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