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Federalism, Not Centralization, Is the Way out of the Current Conflicts

2022-07-10

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2022-07-10

The overturning of Roe v. Wade is a historic decision, upholding the highest principle of a republic. A republic is born through freedom of association in the same manner as individuals band together to form a family, families band together to make a community, and communities band together to make a society.

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How Bad Were Recessions before the Fed? Not as Bad as They Are Now

2022-07-10

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2022-07-10

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The Federal Reserve was supposed to prevent recessions that people blamed on the lack of central banking. Not surprisingly, the post-Fed recessions have been worse.

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How the Government Ruined the Free Market in Healthcare with Jeff Deist from Mises Institute

2022-07-10

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On this podcast we will be talking with Jeff Diest from Mises Institute about How the government ruined the free market in healthcare. Jeff Deist is president of the Mises Institute, where he serves as a writer, public speaker, and advocate for property, markets, and civil society.

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The Role of Ideas

2022-07-09

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2022-07-09

1. Human Reason Reason is man's particular and characteristic feature. There is no need for praxeology to raise the question whether reason is a suitable tool for the cognition of ultimate and absolute truth. It deals with reason only as far as it enables man to act.

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Soflaa talks about La Jama tv, food truck, upcoming projects, & future plans for the brand.

2022-07-08

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In this segment, Soflaa talks about La Jama tv and his partnership with chef Frankie, La Jama food truck that opened this year, upcoming projects with Vice, and future plans for the brand. FIYE SHOW Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fiye.show/ Soflaa instagram: https://www.instagram.com/soflaaa/ La Jama tv:https://www.instagram.com/lajamatv/

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Foreign Policy Fail: Biden’s Sanctions are a Windfall For Russia!

2022-07-08

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2022-07-08

It’s easy to see why, according to a new Harris poll, 71 percent of Americans said they do not want Joe Biden to run for re-election. As Americans face record gas prices and the highest inflation in 40 years, President Biden admits he could not care less.

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Director & filmmaker on his projects “croqueta nation” and “never too late” won 4x short film awards

2022-07-07

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In this segment Director and filmmaker Soflaa talks about his short film "Croqueta nation" which partnered with Sergio's restaurant, and "never too late" a short docu-series on Uly "Monster" Diaz while winning four best short film awards.

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Entrepreneurship Should Be the Goal, Not White-Collar Jobs

2022-07-07

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2022-07-07

Black entrepreneurship in the United States has a remarkable history. Even during the inhospitable climate of Southern slavery, both enslaved and free blacks managed to establish lucrative ventures. Research on black entrepreneurship has revealed that in the Antebellum South black entrepreneurs' pursuits spanned the entire gamut of industry, ranging from merchandising to transportation.

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Here We Go Again: The Fed Is Causing Another Recession

2022-07-07

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2022-07-07

The primary cause of the recurring “boom and bust” business cycle is central banks like the Federal Reserve creating money out of thin air. This was first explained by Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises over a century ago. His student F.A. Hayek won the 1974 Nobel Prize in economics for his work on this theory, which is now known as Austrian business cycle theory.

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Director & filmmaker on how his career has led him to travel the world Japan, Africa, Brazil, London

2022-07-06

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In this segment Director and Filmmaker, Soflaa talks about how his career has led him to many travels around the world including Africa, Brazil, Japan, London, and more. FIYE show instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fiye.show/ Soflaa Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/soflaaa/

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Krugman Is Wrong (Again): Artificially Low Interest Rates Created Bubbles

2022-07-06

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2022-07-06

In his June 21 New York Times article “Is the Era of Cheap Money Over?,” Paul Krugman argues against the view that the Fed has kept interest rates artificially low for the past ten to twenty years.

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filmmaker & director talks about real-life lessons “Escuelita” (part one)

2022-07-05

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In this first segment filmmaker & director Guillermo Alfonso (Soflaa) talks about his best learning experiences and those were his teaching moments that prepared him for his independent projects. FIYE show instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fiye.show/ Guillermo Alfonso instagram: https://www.instagram.com/soflaaa/

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To Avoid Civil War, Learn to Tolerate Different Laws in Different States

2022-07-04

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2022-07-04

Most commentary on the Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization—which overturns Roe v. Wade—has focused on the decision's effect on the legality of abortion in various states. That's an important issue. It may be, however, that the Dobbs decision's effect on political decentralization in the United States is a far bigger deal.

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Powell Is the New Arthur Burns, Not the New Paul Volcker

2022-07-03

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2022-07-03

Last year, just as it was becoming increasingly clear that price inflation was mounting, Jerome Powell repeatedly denied there was any reason for concern. He called inflation "transitory." A few months later, he admitted it was not transitory, but denied it was "entrenched." Then, by late 2021, he admitted price inflation was getting out of control but still took no action of any consequence.

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How Money Printing Destroyed Argentina and Can Destroy Others

2022-07-03

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2022-07-03

Inflation in Argentina is far worse than neighboring countries. It has only one cause: an extractive and confiscatory monetary policy—printing pesos without control and without demand.

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Peter Lewin and Steven Phelan: How Do Entrepreneurs Calculate Economic Value Added? Subjectively.

2022-07-02

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2022-07-02

At the core of the entrepreneurial orientation that is the engine of vibrant, growing, value-creating, customer-first businesses, we find the principles of subjectivism and subjective value. Subjective value embraces not only the value the customer seeks, but also the value that entrepreneurs establish in their companies: capital value.

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Who Really Makes US Foreign Policy? Who Benefits and Who Loses?

2022-07-02

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2022-07-02

In a piece of news that shocked the mainstream media, but which shocked no one familiar with the academic industry writ large, retired US Army general John Allen was forced to resign as president of the Brookings Institution after it was revealed the FBI was investigating him for lobbying on behalf of the Qatari monarchy.

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How Bad Were Recessions before the Fed? Not as Bad as They Are Now

2022-07-01

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2022-07-01

With a recession looming over the average American, the group to blame is pretty obvious, this group being the central bankers at the Federal Reserve, who inflate the supply of currency in the system, that currency being the dollar. This is what inflation is, the expansion of the money supply either through the printing press or adding zeros to a computer screen.

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What Will It Take to End Rampant Home-Price Inflation?

2022-06-30

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2022-06-30

Real wages are falling, inflation is at a 40-year high, and the Atlanta Fed predicts we'll find GDP growth at zero for the second quarter. Meanwhile, both the yield curve and money-supply growth point to recession.  But when it comes to the latest data on home prices, there's still no sign of any deflation or even moderation.

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Economic Winter Has Arrived

2022-06-30

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2022-06-30

The average card-carrying Austrian would say that the Federal Reserve is creating money by the bale, with evidence being Consumer Price Index prints of 8.6 percent per the Bureau of Labor Statistics or over 15 percent per John Williams’s shadowstats.com computation based on the way the government calculated CPI back in 1980.

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