Category Archive: 6b.) Mises.org
Slowing Money-Supply Growth in 2022 Points to Recession
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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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What Is Wrong with the Fed’s Inflationist Policy?
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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Rothbard vs. the Religion of Progressivism
Our main text for the Rothbard Graduate Seminar this week is Murray Rothbard’s Power and Market: Government and the Economy, which contains a systematic treatment of one area of economic theory, interventionism.
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Respect the Fed? No, End the Fed
President Joe Biden has unveiled a three-part plan to fight inflation — or at least make people think he is fighting inflation. One part of the plan involves having government agencies “fix” the supply chain problems that have led to shortages of numerous products.
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Degradation and Nationalization: The Inevitable Ways of Russian Autocratic Economic Policy
As Russian political scientist Gleb Pavlovsky has quite rightly said, one should not consider the five-thousand-plus sanctions imposed against the Russian Federation as of this writing as sanctions in the normal diplomatic and economic sense.
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Emails between Austin St. John and Andrew Moran
Or, evidence of a cover up regarding Hollywood actor Isaac Kappy. You've all seen it now.
Go Austin!!! Sorry for the false title... but I have to "plug"... these people have killed others and they want me to kill myself. They are terrorists.
Hi, my name is Zachary McQuaid. Friends and business associates of actor Seth Green, which was unbeknownst to Isaac Kappy, falsely befriended Isaac Kappy and gained his trust after Isaac came out...
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Are Today’s Homeownership Rates Sustainable?
There is scattered evidence that home prices are finally starting to slow down. But, if the phenomenon is system-wide, we’re still waiting to see the evidence in numbers. Last week, the most recent Case-Shiller national data, for example, showed that home prices in March rose an eye-popping 20 percent, year over year.
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Let’s Boycott Them!
Tom Woods’ bestseller Meltdown placed the blame for the financial debacle of 2008–09 on the government’s counterfeiter, the Federal Reserve. It was the Fed’s policies that created the problems, although most economists and economic talking heads didn’t see it that way. The Fed’s loose monetary policies funded the meltdown and became the “elephant in the living room” most pundits couldn’t see.
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Does Capitalism Make Us More Materialistic?
There was a time when the advocates of socialism argued that it would lead man to material abundance, whereas free-market capitalism would lead only to increasing misery and would ultimately collapse under its own internal stresses. You don't hear that too much these days, and for good reason.
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Finland and Sweden in NATO: Disregarding the Benefits of Neutrality
Finland and Sweden’s recent decision to apply for North Atlantic Treaty Organization membership is a major win for the military alliance, but a far more dubious one for these two countries. NATO badly needs a success at this moment, since neither the economic war on Russia nor the conflict in Ukraine seems to be going the West’s way.
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Greenspan Would Be Proud: A Lesson in Fed Speak
It has become a familiar sight over the past decade and a half: a supposedly venerable member of the financial elite tells us with utmost calm that what we think we are seeing isn’t really all that bad. The Fed already knows all about it and has already taken all necessary steps. Further, they are monitoring the situation closely and are ready to make any necessary adjustments with ease and alacrity.
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Debt-Fueled Demand and Oil Price Inflation Brings Airfares Roaring Back
If you’ve purchased any airline tickets lately, you’ve probably noticed that prices are up. It’s quite a reversal from the days of covid lockdowns, when airline tickets could be had for half the price of 2019 fares. Or even lower, in many cases.
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