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Prof. Thorsten Polleit sehr ernst – Dieser GEHEIME PLAN läuft vor unseren Augen! SIEHST DU ES NICHT?

2021-02-19

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Prohibition’s Repeal: What Made FDR Popular

2021-02-19

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2021-02-19

For seventy-plus years, the case of Franklin Delano Roosevelt has vexed people of a libertarian bent. His policies, extending war socialism based on Mussolini's economic structure, expanded the American state to an unthinkable extent and prolonged the Great Depression through the horrific World War II.

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If America Splits Up, What Happens to the Nukes?

2021-02-18

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2021-02-18

Opposition to American secession movements often hinges on the idea that foreign policy concerns trump any notions that the United States ought to be broken up into smaller pieces. It almost goes without saying that those who subscribe to neoconservative ideology or other highly interventionist foreign policy views treat the idea of political division with alarm or contempt. Or both.

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Fiat Geld und Kollektive Korruption. Eine hintergründige Analyse

2021-02-18

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Ein Vortrag von Thorsten Polleit, aufgenommen am 29. Januar 2021 in Frankfurt a. M. von Manuel Teubert.

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Money, Interest, and the Business Cycle

2021-02-18

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2021-02-18

The banks very often expand credit for political reasons. There is an old saying that if prices are rising, if business is booming, the party in power has a better chance to succeed in an election campaign than it would otherwise. Thus the decision to expand credit is very often influenced by the government that wants to have “prosperity.” Therefore, governments all over the world are in favor of such a credit-expansion policy.

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Austrian Economics is the Science of Business Success

2021-02-17

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For any size and any type of business, the generation of value requires more than strategy, planning, and executional excellence. It calls for the establishment, communication, and internalization of value-generation principles, solidly founded and consistently applied.

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Down with the Presidency

2021-02-17

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2021-02-17

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The modern institution of the presidency is the primary political evil Americans face, and the cause of nearly all our woes. It squanders the national wealth and starts unjust wars against foreign peoples that have never done us any harm. It wrecks our families, tramples on our rights, invades our communities, and spies on our bank accounts. It skews the culture toward decadence and trash. It tells lie after lie. Teachers used to tell school kids...

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The Fight over Economics Is a Fight over Culture

2021-02-16

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2021-02-16

The Left long ago figured out how to get ordinary people interested in economic policy. The strategy is two pronged. The first part is to frame the problem as a moral problem. The second part is to make the fight over economic policy into a fight over something much bigger than economics: it's a fight between views of what it means to be a good person. The Left knows how to make the war over economics into a war over culture.

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Understanding Minimum Wage Mandates: Empirical Studies Aren’t Enough

2021-02-15

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2021-02-15

It is only through the increase in capital goods, i.e., through the enhancement and the expansion of the infrastructure, that labor can become more productive and earn a higher hourly wage. 

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Der Anti-Kapitalist – Thorsten Polleit im Gespräch

2021-02-15

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Mit Prof. Dr. Thorsten Polleit habe ich über die antikapitalistsiche Mentalität gesprochen. Es geht um die Folgen des Dirigismus und Interventionismus, die Ursachen für die freiheitsfeindliche Einstellung der meisten Intellektuellen, das Konzept der Privatrechtsgesellschaft und die Herstellung des Guts "Sicherheit", um einen freien Währungswettbewerb sowie um Chancen der Aufklärung hin zu einer freieren Gesellschaft.

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The Depression of the 1780s and the Banking Struggle

2021-02-14

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2021-02-14

It has been alleged—from that day to this—that the depression which hit the United States, especially the commercial cities, was caused by “excessive” imports by Americans beginning in 1783.

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The World Needs a Gold-Backed Deutsche Mark

2021-02-13

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2021-02-13

The seeds of sound-money destruction were sown at the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference, which established that US dollars could be held as central bank reserves and were redeemable for gold by the US Treasury at thirty-five dollars an ounce. This was the so-called gold exchange standard, but only foreign central banks and some multinational organizations, such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), enjoyed this right of redemption. The system...

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How Wall Street Became an Enemy of Free Markets

2021-02-13

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2021-02-13

After decades of financialization and government favors, Wall Street now has little to do with free, functioning markets anymore and has largely become an adjunct of the central bank. Today, entrepreneurship is out, and bailouts are in.

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How Not to Argue against the Minimum Wage

2021-02-12

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2021-02-12

Among the hotly contested list of Joe Biden’s promises is an increase of the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. There are plenty of sound reasons to oppose government minimum wage laws, but there is one objection making the rounds that is based on bad economics and should be avoided, and that’s the "businesses will pass on the costs to consumers" objection.

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Why No State Needs Thousands of Nuclear Warheads

2021-02-11

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2021-02-11

Last week, the United States signed a five-year extension of the New START arms control treaty with Russia. Russia’s President Putin signed the treaty shortly thereafter. The “Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty” allows Russia and the US to monitor each other’s nuclear forces, facilities, and activities.

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AOC and Schumer Want Taxpayer Funding for Covid-19 Funerals

2021-02-10

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2021-02-10

US residents whose family members died with or of covid will be eligible to receive $7,000 for funeral and related expenses, New York senator Chuck Schumer (D) and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D) announced.

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The Dystopian Bubble: George Orwell Meets Charles Mackay

2021-02-10

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2021-02-10

“Threats to freedom of speech, writing, and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the citizen.”

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Politics and Ideas

2021-02-09

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2021-02-09

In the Age of Enlightenment, in the years in which the North Americans founded their independence, and a few years later, when the Spanish and Portuguese colonies were transformed into independent nations, the prevailing mood in Western civilization was optimistic.

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Title IX Will Become a Vehicle of More Injustice

2021-02-07

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2021-02-07

President Joe Biden vowed to put a “quick end” to the Trump administration’s Title IX regulations and return to Obama-era ones at universities. If this happens, the sexual misconduct hearings will be deeply impacted.

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A Penchant for Controlling Others

2021-02-06

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2021-02-06

We all want freedom for ourselves, but many people have doubts about the way others might use their own freedom. Under these conditions, the state is there to help. Get enough people to favor enough restriction, and the state is good to go, administering every aspect of life from its smallest to its largest detail.

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