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If the US Adopts Eurozone Policies, the Jobs Recovery Will Suffer

2020-09-30

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2020-09-30

The employment recovery in the United States is as impressive as the collapse due to the lockdowns. In April I wrote a column stating that “The U.S. Labor Market Can Heal Quickly,” and the improvement has been positive. Very few would have expected the unemployment rate to be at 8.4 percent in August after soaring to almost 15 percent in the middle of the pandemic.

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Dr. Per Bylund on the Austrian School versus Business School

2020-09-29

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Why do business schools exist? Dr. Per Bylund wonders if business schools are facing an existential problem. Originally, their purpose was to train young people for a trade career. They transitioned into the field of management, preparing young people for the practice of management in large corporations.

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Why “Taxing the Rich” Doesn’t Make Us Better Off

2020-09-29

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2020-09-29

The complete confiscation of all private property is tantamount to the introduction of socialism. Therefore we do not have to deal with it in an analysis of the problems of interventionism. We are concerned here only with the partial confiscation of property. Such confiscation is today attempted primarily by taxation.

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Mises and Moral Relativism

2020-09-29

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2020-09-29

I heard several days ago from my friend Larry Beane that people in Walter Block’s seminar who had been reading Theory and History wondered whether Mises is a moral relativist. As I’ll try to show, the answer depends on what you mean by “moral relativist,” but in the way the term is usually understood in contemporary philosophy, he isn’t.

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Rent Control Is Bad for Renters, but Good for Politicians

2020-09-28

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2020-09-28

Ontario’s ever-changing rent control policies prove that politicians are just as committed to flip-flopping as the Minnesota Vikings are to not winning the Super Bowl.

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Compulsory vs. Free Education

2020-09-26

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2020-09-26

[A selection from Education: Free and Compulsory.] The Reverend George Harris described the effects of compulsory education in imposing uniformity and enforced equality (soon after the establishment of compulsion).

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Murray N. Rothbard: Die optimale Geldmenge (Mises Karma Episode 51)

2020-09-25

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Mises Karma – Der freiheitliche Podcast – erscheint ab Episode 51 auf Youtube auf dem Kanal von eigentümlich frei.

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Carter vs. Reagan: The Last Semi-Intelligent Presidential Race

2020-09-25

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2020-09-25

Presidential campaigns in the United States tend to be discouraging affairs, even if one is not a libertarian who has zero expectations that anything good can come from American elections. The old saw that insanity consists of doing the same thing repeatedly and somehow expecting different results applies to presidential campaigns as well as to anything else.

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Carter vs. Reagan: The Last Semi-Intelligent Presidential Race | William L. Anderson

2020-09-24

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Jimmy Carter doesn't get credit for his deregulation efforts, but his initiatives probably were as significant a boost to the economy as any president has accomplished since 1980.

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[LIVE] Debate: David Gordon vs. Jeff Cassman – Is the SSPX in Schism?

2020-09-24

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Why the SSPX is in Schism (David): 10 min Response and counterpoints (Jeff): 10 min Five rounds of 5:00 min back-and-forths (including your questions)

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Inflation: Its Effects and Failures

2020-09-23

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2020-09-23

Inflationism is that policy which by increasing the quantity of money or credit seeks to raise money prices and money wages or seeks to counteract a decline of money prices and money wages which threatens as the result of an increase in the supply of consumers’ goods.

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It’s Far Too Late to Think Lockdowns Can Make Covid-19 Go Away | Ryan McMaken

2020-09-22

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Far from stopping the spread of covid-19, lockdowns only push deaths into the future. Unless a vaccine is imminent or a 100% total lockdown is imposed, lockdown won't cause big reductions in total deaths.

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The Fed Is Planning Another Ultralong Period of Ultralow Rates

2020-09-22

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2020-09-22

Audio Mises Wire
The Fed plans to keep interest rates near zero, while monetizing debt, financing zombie companies, and pouring new dollars into the market. But that may not be enough.

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The Saving Problem in America: Alternatives and Reforms

2020-09-22

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2020-09-22

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Savings are the foundation for a productive and advanced economy. Unfortunately, governments insist on policies that make it harder for ordinary people to save.

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Turning to Keynes in this Crisis Will Only Make Things Worse

2020-09-21

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2020-09-21

In the New York Times on September 8, 2020, Paul Krugman wrote that. The CARES Act, enacted in March, gave the unemployed an extra $600 a week in benefits. This supplement played a crucial role in limiting extreme hardship; poverty may even have gone down.

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Inflation as a Tool of the Radical Left

2020-09-20

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2020-09-20

Rising money stock meets shrinking production, 2000-2020
“Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch its currency….Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer way of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.

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What the Trade Balance Means for a Currency’s Purchasing Power

2020-09-20

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2020-09-20

In July this year the US trade balance stood at a deficit of $63.6 billion against a deficit of $51 billion in July last year. Some commentators regard a widening in the trade deficit as an ominous sign for the exchange rate of the US dollar against major currencies in the times ahead.

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LoL Ep. 8 w/ Jeff Deist

2020-09-19

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We were honored to be joined in this episode by Mr. Jeff Deist, president of the Mises Institute! We had a great conversation touching on many issues including Covid lockdowns, international law, tort law and big tech censorship, culture wars, and the legal profession.

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Monetary Policy Flapping in the Wind

2020-09-19

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2020-09-19

Stephanie Kelton’s new book has attracted much attention, and Bob Murphy and Jeff Deist have already reviewed it, with devastating results. Why another review? The policies proposed in the book are so pernicious that further exposure of what she has in store for us is needed, and I have some new points to offer for your consideration.

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Federal Judge: Pennsylvania’s Stay-at-Home Order Is an Assault on Human Rights

2020-09-19

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2020-09-19

A federal judge on Monday ruled that Pennsylvania governor Tom Wolf’s covid-19 stay-at-home orders and forced business closures were unconstitutional. US district judge William Stickman IV of the US District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania ruled that Wolf’s orders violated the Constitution in three ways.

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