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Homicide Rates in 2020 Rose to a 24-Year High. Is This a Crisis of State Legitimacy?

2021-11-18

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2021-11-18

By mid 2020, it was already becoming clear that the United States was experiencing a spike in crime. Indeed, by midyear, numerous media outlets were already reporting remarkably large increases in homicide in a number of cities. It was clear that if then-current trends continued, homicide rates in the United States would reach levels not seen in over a decade.

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Thorsten Polleit – Ein Referat über die Inflation

2021-11-18

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In diesem Beitrag, berichtet Thorsten Polleit über die verheerenden Folgen von Inflation auf das Marktgeschehen.

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What the United States Can Learn from the European City-States

2021-11-18

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2021-11-18

Over the past year and a half, we have seen some of the largest divides in US state policy in recent history. Certain states such as California have implemented heavy lockdowns, mask mandates, curfews, and other restrictions for months on end, whereas states such as South Dakota never had an official lockdown to begin with.

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Prof Thorsten Polleit alarmiert – Der Euro ABSTURZ läuft!!!

2021-11-17

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THORSTEN POLLEIT: ALSO DIE ENTSTEHUNG DES GELDES LÄSST SICH ERKLÄREN ÜBER DIE SPONTAN KRÄFTE DES MARKTES MENSCHEN FINDEN SICH ZUSAMMEN IN EINER ARBEITSTEILUNG UND FRÜHER ODER SPÄTER ERKENNT MAN DASS DAS VERWENDEN VON EINEM INDIREKTEN TAUSCHMITTEL FÜR ALLE BETEILIGTEN

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Biden’s Infrastructure Plan Points to Even More Price Inflation

2021-11-17

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2021-11-17

What is the worst thing a government can do when there is high inflation and supply shortages? Multiply spending on energy and material-intensive areas. This is exactly what the US infrastructure plan is doing and—even worse—what other developed nations have decided to copy.

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Will the Next “Skyscraper Curse” Be Found in the Digital World?

2021-11-16

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2021-11-16

The vast majority of Mises Wire readers are already familiar with the Austrian business cycle theory. For those who are not, it is an Austrian perspective on what causes the sudden general cluster of business errors that results in a boom-bust cycle, with the busts being the recessions or depressions that we as a society so dread.

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Employer Vaccine Mandates: When the Feds Pay the Piper, They Call the Tune

2021-11-15

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2021-11-15

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Vaccine mandates are much easier to enforce thanks to the spread of government spending, government contracting, and monopolized government services.

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How Asset Price Inflation Is Different from Goods Price Inflation

2021-11-14

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2021-11-14

There has been no constant concept of asset price inflation through the modern age of fiat money even amongst those who recognize the condition. The term has become most popular in the present period of inflation targeting coupled with the use of radical monetary tools.

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Thanks to Bailouts, Wall Street Banks Are More Fragile than Ever

2021-11-13

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2021-11-13

The financial covid crash of 2020 came and went in a month as the US government threw every monetary and fiscal trick it had at the government-imposed flash panic. We’ll never know which malivestments would have been cleansed. We live on with goods and labor shortages and with higher prices we’re assured by experts are transient.

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Why There Is No Free Lunch

2021-11-12

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2021-11-12

Caleb Fuller, an economist who teaches at Grove City College, thinks that many people have a mistaken conception of economics. It is, they think, a dull and dry subject, the “dismal science,” of primary interest to specialists. Fuller disagrees. He says that “economics changed my life” (p. 11; all page references are to the Amazon Kindle edition), and in this wonderful short book, which can be read in an hour or so, he conveys his infectious...

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Price Inflation Hits a 31-Year High as Janet Yellen Insists It’s No Big Deal

2021-11-11

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2021-11-11

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Wednesday morning that prices rose 6.2% on a year-over-year basis in October. That’s the highest YOY rate since December 1990 when the CPI was also up 6.2 percent. October’s rate was up from 5.3 percent in September, and remains part of a surge in the index since February 2021 when year-over-year growth was still muted at 1.6 percent.

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The Problem with “Stakeholder Capitalism”

2021-11-11

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2021-11-11

Writing in the Investment Monitor on March 18, 2021, Klaus Schwab, the founder of the World Economic Forum, was urging the replacement of the present economic system. According to Schwab, the present system is deficient, since it only benefits a small minority of the population while leaving all the others at a visible disadvantage.

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Cronyism, Not Welfare, Is China’s Big Problem

2021-11-10

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2021-11-10

After three decades of promarket reforms, extreme poverty in China has been virtually eradicated. So President Xi Jinping now has the leverage to shift his attention to reducing the wealth gap in Chinese society. In a speech to the Chinese Communist Party in August, Xi touted "common prosperity" for all Chinese as an essential requirement of socialism and modernization.

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Amazing Street Singer | Street Song From Young Boy (Andrew Moran) | Genius Singer Performing #Shorts

2021-11-09

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#Shorts #street_performer #street_song #Genius_Singer Please Subscribe The Singers Channel if you love his song and vocal https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHGKX4lBXMbAKm2KziLJvNQ

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In a Free Economy, Prices Would be Going down, Not Up

2021-11-09

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2021-11-09

Whenever politicians and media outlets discuss inflation, they invariably use the Consumer Price Index (CPI) as their measure. The CPI is only one of several price indices on top of the various measures of the money supply that underlie aggregate price changes. Strictly speaking, the CPI does not measure inflation per se, but rather the consequences of monetary expansion on consumer products. In macroeconomics, the CPI is one of the key indicators...

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Thorsten Polleit: Der Ausweg aus der Fiat-Geld-Tyrannei – ein freier Markt für Geld

2021-11-08

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Hören und sehen Sie heute den Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Polleit den er bei der Geldkonferenz der Atlas Initiative gehalten hat. Herzlichen Dank für den lösungsorientierten Beitrag!

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Why Bureaucrats Aren’t Like Private Sector Workers

2021-11-08

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2021-11-08

Bureaucratic management means, under democracy, management in strict accordance with the law and the budget. It is not for the personnel of the administration and for the judges to inquire what should be done for the public welfare and how the public funds should be spent. This is the task of the sovereign, the people, and their representatives.

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There’s Nothing Hawkish About the Fed’s New Tapering Plan

2021-11-07

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2021-11-07

The Federal Reserve concluded its November Meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee on Wednesday. According to the FOMC’s statement, the Fed now plans to taper beginning in mid-November by cutting back its asset purchases by 10 billion in Treasury securities and 5 billion in mortgage-backed securities.

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Employer Vaccine Mandates: When the Feds Pay the Piper, they Call the Tune

2021-11-06

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2021-11-06

Advocates for vaccine mandates—led by the Biden Administration—are apparently unconcerned that the mandates are likely to drive down total employment and reduce access to government services.

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Thanks to Central Banks, the Old Investment Rules Don’t Apply Anymore

2021-11-05

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2021-11-05

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Thanks to central banks' easy money policies, historically low interest rates and a desperate search for yield have created new danger zones for investors trying to stay out of trouble.

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