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Episode 443: Economic Principles That Have Enriched Your Life w/ Per Bylund

2020-07-13

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49 Minutes Suitable for All Ages Per Bylund is a Fellow at the Mises Institute and Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship at Oklahoma State University. Per joins Pete to go over a few economic principles developed over the last 150+ years that have contributed to helping entrepreneurs provide all of those products that make our lives better and richer. Show notes and links - https://freemanbeyondthewall.libsyn.com/episode-443

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The Great Society: A Libertarian Critique

2020-07-13

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2020-07-13

The Great Society is the lineal descendant and the intensification of those other pretentiously named policies of twentieth-century America: the Square Deal, the New Freedom, the New Era, the New Deal, the Fair Deal, and the New Frontier. All of these assorted Deals constituted a basic and fundamental shift in American life—a shift from a relatively laissez-faire economy and minimal state to a society in which the state is unquestionably king.

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How Central Banks Destroy Money’s Purchasing Power

2020-07-12

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2020-07-12

Most economists hold that a growing economy requires a growing money stock on grounds that growth gives rise to a greater demand for money that must be accommodated. Failing to do so, it is maintained, will lead to a decline in the prices of goods and services, which in turn will destabilize the economy and lead to an economic recession, or even worse, depression.

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Stocks Always Go up. Until They Don’t.

2020-07-10

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2020-07-10

Economist Irving Fisher famously said just before the 1929 stock market crash, “Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.” Whoops. Fisher wasn’t just any old economist. Joseph Schumpeter called him "the greatest economist the United States has ever produced." Milton Friedman and James Tobin agreed.

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Hayek-Club Köln mit Prof. Dr. Thorsten Polleit „Die EZB auf den Spuren der Reichsbank“

2020-07-09

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Am Montag, dem 22. Juni 2020, fand der 21. Clubabend des Hayek-Clubs Köln mit Professor Dr. Thorsten Polleit zu dem Thema „Die EZB auf den Spuren der Reichsbank“ statt. Die wirtschaftlichen Folgen der Corona-Eindämmungs- und Bekämpfungsmaßnahmen sind noch schwer einzuschätzen, es wird von dem stärksten Wirtschaftseinbruch seit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg gesprochen. Wie wird das erneute Fluten der Märkte mit aus dem Nichts geschaffenen Geld die schon...

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The “Old” vs. the “New” Liberalism

2020-07-09

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2020-07-09

It is not disputed that the popular meaning of liberal has changed drastically over time. It is a well-known story how, around 1900, in English-speaking countries and elsewhere, the term was captured by writers who were essentially social democrats.

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Beyond the Concert Hall: David Gordon Duke

2020-07-08

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The Vancouver Recital Society's Founder & Artistic Director, Leila Getz, speaks to David Gordon Duke, a Vancouver-based composer, educator, and writer. David writes concert reviews and previews for the Vancouver Sun newspaper, and has been a great friend of the VRS for many years. He and Leila chat about concert programming, his work as a composer, and what it's like to review some of the greatest classical artists of our time. Listen to...

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What Germany Must Do for a Speedy Recovery

2020-07-08

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2020-07-08

On June 29, the German parliament reacted as parliaments normally do when there is a problem, namely, by allowing the government to spend more. In order to respond to the economic difficulties due to the corona epidemic and the government restrictions, it passed a typical Keynesian stimulus package in order to boost aggregate demand.

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The Social Consequences of Zero Interest Rates

2020-07-06

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2020-07-06

Japan's Innovation in Decline, 1990-2005
Anyone who has ever been to Japan knows: Japan is special. The country has many strange habits. The Japanese culture is simply different and many peculiarities are hardly understood in the West. But it's not only the old established traditions that are foreign to us Westerners.

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Will the Police Crack Down on Lockdown Violators the Second Time Around?

2020-07-06

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2020-07-06

It will be very interesting if the police—who did nothing to disperse protests that were obviously in violation of bans on mass gatherings—turn around and arrest business owners and other "violators" of a second round of stay-at-home orders.

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The Disastrous Legacy of Woodrow Wilson

2020-07-04

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2020-07-04

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Princeton University has made it official: Woodrow Wilson’s name no longer will have any place on campus. The former president, or at least his memory, now is part of cancel culture, which is sweeping the nation. The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs will replace the former president’s name with “Princeton,” and Wilson College now will be called First College.

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Man, Economy, and State with Jeff Deist

2020-07-03

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Today's solo show kicks off our reading of Rothbard's landmark Man, Economy, and State with a look at Chapter 1, "Fundamentals of Human Action." So much of what economics texts get wrong is laid out brilliantly here by Rothbard, who gives readers the basics of action, means/ends, time, ranking, factors of production, and capital in this 77 page master class. The short appendix at the end of the chapter alone is a bombshell—demystifying...

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How Historians Changed the Meaning of “Liberalism”

2020-07-03

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2020-07-03

Understandably enough, the current disfavor into which socialism has fallen has spurred what Raimondo Cubeddu (1997: 138) refers to as “the frenzy to proclaim oneself a liberal.” Many writers today have recourse to the stratagem of “inventing for oneself a ‘liberalism’ according to one’s own tastes” and passing it off as an “evolution” from past ideas.

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A Review of Stephanie Kelton’s The Deficit Myth

2020-07-01

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2020-07-01

The good news is that Stephanie Kelton has written a book on MMT that is very readable and will strike many readers as persuasive and clever. The bad news is that Stephanie Kelton has written a book on MMT that is very readable and will strike many readers as persuasive and clever. Narrated by the author.  Original Article: "A Review of Stephanie Kelton’s The Deficit Myth".

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The COVID Crisis Supercharged the War on Cash

2020-07-01

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2020-07-01

The corona crisis has already taken a very high toll and caused deep damage in our societies and our economies, the extent of which is yet to become apparent. We have seen its impact on productivity, on unemployment, on social cohesion and on political division. However, there is another very worrying trend that has been accelerated under the veil of fear and confusion that the pandemic has spread.

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As the Fed Pumps, the Stock Market Is Increasingly the Only Game in Town

2020-06-29

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2020-06-29

While the economic storm caused by COVID-19 has seemed to wane (temporarily?), the stock market can’t seem to go but one direction—up. Graham and Dodd’s meaty 700-page Security Analysis has soared to number 7695 on the Amazon best-seller list. According to Warren Buffett, the book is A road map for investing that I have now been following for 57 years.

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Ludwig von Mises: Der kompromisslose Liberale (Thorsten Polleit) | Ep. 40

2020-06-28

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Das einführende Kapitel aus dem Buch „Ludwig von Mises für jedermann: Der kompromisslose Liberale“ von Thorsten Polleit, erschienen 2018 in der Reihe „Ökonomen für jedermann“ im Verlag Frankfurter Allgemeine Buch. Das Buch bei amazon bestellen: https://amzn.to/2B7evik #LudwigvonMises #ThorstenPolleit Mises Karma – Der freiheitliche Podcast. Folgen Sie uns auf: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7aEesbxMSiumcGi5ob1tWo Deezer:...

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Why Central Banks Are a Threat to Our Savings

2020-06-28

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2020-06-28

US Personal Savings Rate vs YoY % CHNG US AMS
The US personal savings rate jumped to 33 percent in April from 12.7 percent in March and 8 percent in April last year. An increase in savings is regarded by popular economics as less expenditure on consumption. Since consumption expenditure is considered as the main driving force of the economy, obviously a rebound in savings, which implies less consumption, cannot be good for economic activity, so it is held. Saving and wealth—what is the...

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The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People’s Economy

2020-06-28

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2020-06-28

I’ve got good news and bad news. The good news is that Stephanie Kelton—economics professor at Stony Brook and advisor to the 2016 Bernie Sanders campaign—has written a book on modern monetary theory (MMT) that is very readable and will strike many readers as persuasive and clever.

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José Niño: Freelance Writer at Mises Institute, Big League Politics, and More

2020-06-26

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On this guest episode of the Resistance Library Podcast Sam invites José Niño onto the show. Share this video: https://youtu.be/SIRv-2Py59A Subscribe to our channel: http://bit.ly/ammodotcom-youtube For $20 off your $200 purchase, go to https://ammo.com/podcast (a special deal for our listeners). Follow Sam Jacobs on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SamJacobs45 And check out our sponsor, Libertas Bella, for all of your favorite...

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