Category Archive: 6b.) Mises.org

The West’s Russia Sanctions Could Lead to Many Unpredictable and Unpleasant Outcomes

Global supply shocks are historically rare events. All the more extraordinary to have two such shocks in quick succession—the second arriving even before the first has entirely faded away. That is what the world now experiences in the form of the Great Pandemic followed by the Great West-Russia economic war. The most visible symptom of the supply disruption is the sky-high price of energy and a range of other commodities.

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Dr Polleit Teil 1 – was sagt der Profi zu Inflation, Gold & Bitcoin?

Teil 1 unseres Gespräches mit Dr. Thorsten Polleit über Gold, Bitcoin und Inflation. Was ist zu tun? Wie kann man sich schützen? Warum ist es überhaupt zu dieser Situation gekommen?

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Governments “Sanction” Their Own Citizens Every Day. The Russia Sanctions Are Just a Natural Evolution.

Russian president Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine in the last week of February 2022 was the culmination of decades of transnational statist expansion.

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Trading with the Enemy: An American Tradition

During the French and Indian War (1754–1763), Americans continued the great tradition of trading with the enemy, and even more readily than before. As in King George's War, Newport took the lead; other vital centers were New York and Philadelphia.

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Thorsten Polleit: Schwere Schäden in Europa

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Patents, Legal Monopolies, and the High Prices for Drugs

Currently, 63 percent of American adults are on prescription drugs, according to a 2021 survey. Of this 63 percent of Americans, 26 percent say they have difficulty affording their prescriptions. Despite the prices of prescription drugs falling in recent years, an increasing number of Americans are concerned about high drug costs and demanding action be taken, 88 percent saying they want it to be easier for generic drugs to enter the market.

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Carmen Ibarra: Chef Carmen on Starting her Mango Mama Salsa brand during the pandemic

In this segment chef Carmen talks about her Mango Mama Salsa brand and future expansion of the Salsa F.I.Y.E instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fiye.show/ Carmen Ibarra: https://www.instagram.com/carmenfibarra/ Mango Mama Salsa: https://www.instagram.com/mangomamasalsa/

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With Inflation at a 40-Year High, the Fed Is Too Afraid to Act

Price inflation has been accelerating upward since April of last year. Yet the Fed has done virtually nothing. What's the Fed waiting for?

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Thorsten Polleit: Kreditausfallrisiko jetzt extrem hoch

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Inflation: Who or What Is the Culprit?

Inflation—defined herein as a widespread increase in the prices of widely purchased consumer goods—has gotten worse since I commented on it last spring. According to the official Consumer Price Index (CPI), inflation is currently running at 7.5 percent year over year—the highest since 1982.

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Behind Klaus Schwab, the World Economic Forum, and the Great Reset: Part 3

Bob continues his series on Klaus Schwab and the Great Reset, highlighting an interesting remark in Biden's SOTU, Strobe Talbott's open support for global government, and the introduction to Schwab's book on Covid-19 and the Great Reset.

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Why Sanctions Don’t Work, and Why They Mostly Hurt Ordinary People

The United States and its western European allies have in recent days repeatedly increased economic sanctions against not only the Russian regime, but against millions of ordinary Russians. 

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Why Putin Probably Hasn’t Doomed the Dollar

In this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop look at the economic consequences of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. What has been the damage from America's weaponization of the dollar? Is Russia likely to return to the gold standard? What may be the fallout in Europe?

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Economic Aspects of the Pension Problem

On Whom Does the Incidence Fall? Whenever a law or labor union pressure burdens the employers with an additional expenditure for the benefit of the employees, people talk of “social gains.”

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What Would Mises Have Thought of “Special Economic Zones”?

SEZs are loopholes, and capitalism breathes through loopholes. But like all loopholes, they tend to benefit those who can afford to hire the lawyers who can identify said loopholes. Original Article: "What Would Mises Have Thought of "Special Economic Zones"?" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon. Narrated by Michael Stack.

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China Needs to Pop Its Property Bubble

The financial woes of the giant real estate developer Evergrande, which carries an estimated debt of $300 billion, have rekindled global fears that China’s property bubble is about to burst. Such predictions have occurred repeatedly in the past, in particular since 2010, and have been fueled by the rapid rise of property prices, construction volumes, and real estate debt. Today, many analysts fear that if the property bubble collapses, the impact...

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Ukraine’s Regime Is Now Kidnapping Fathers for Military “Service”

As the Ukraine regime has imposed martial law in the wake of the Russia invasion, it has also apparently imposed a new near-universal conscription order. USA Today reports: The Ukraine State Border Guard Service has announced that men ages 18 to 60 are prohibited from leaving the country, according to reports.

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which country has the best empanadas?

In this bonus episode with chef Frankie we discuss who does empanadas best Cuban, Jamaican, Venezuelan, Colombian, Chilean?

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Canada’s Freezing of Protesters’ Finances Shows How the “War on Cash” Ends.

The Canadian government is now freezing the bank accounts and personal assets of those who donated to support the Freedom Convoy, which is an organized political protest of the vaccine mandates. The deputy prime minister announced that they will retain these so-called emergency powers permanently going forward and will also seek to implement additional measures to further restrict the ability of political protestors to raise funds or otherwise use...

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Death by Inflation or by Interest Rate Hikes?

Inflation is skyrocketing in practically the entire world. Central banks are getting scared and beginning to announce the end of expansionary measures, also known as tapering. Why do central banks find themselves in a dilemma? Why has inflation risen so much? What is a bottleneck? What does tapering mean, and how could it affect us? The objective of this article is to answer these, and other, questions.

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