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Human Action Part Five with Ryan McMaken

2020-04-17

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Ryan McMaken, an economist and editor of Mises.org, joins the show to consider Part Five of Human Action: “Social Cooperation without a Market.” This section of the book provides Mises’s updated exposition of socialism, the impossible project of substituting ‘One Will’ for the subjective actions and preferences of everyone in society. Mises gives us the …

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Episode 405: Mises.Org Editor Ryan McMaken on the Fallout of the Government’s Covid-19 Response

2020-04-17

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51 Minutes Safe for Work Pete invited Mises.Org editor Ryan McMaken to return to the show to discuss the articles he’s been writing recently about the government, and the public’s response, to the Covid-19 crisis. Show notes and links – http://freemanbeyondthewall.libsyn.com/episode-405

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Why This Bubble Economy Keeps Going and Going

2020-04-17

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2020-04-17

The Fed's "bail out" package eases stress in the US credit Market, 2007-2020
Quite a few people may wonder why the global fiat money system has not yet collapsed. The fiat money system did not crash in the financial and economic crisis of 2008/2009, when a great many people feared the debt pyramid would come crashing down.

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Ep. 117 Pandemic Trade-Offs, with Jeff Deist

2020-04-16

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Our guest is Jeff Deist, President of the Mises Institute. We discuss the unprecedented governmental response to COVID, the trade-offs that are unaccounted for, and the inability of local communities to set their own course when, in fact, “all crises are local.” Shownotes: https://accadandkoka.com/episode117/

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In an Age of Pandemics We Need More Freedom to Trade, Not Less

2020-04-16

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2020-04-16

There are many who use the coronavirus crisis to blame freedom to trade for the current epidemic. And, of course, there are those who are already arguing for autarky, closing our borders, and producing everything locally.

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Thanks to Lockdowns, State and Local Tax Revenues Are Plummeting

2020-04-16

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2020-04-16

Unlike the federal government, state and local governments in America can't just create money out of thin air. So when tax revenues go down, that money is simply not available to the state legislatures and city councils anymore. These governments either have to borrow the money or raise taxes and hope the tax hike itself doesn't cause total revenue to fall.

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Danish State Plans to Pay the Salaries of Private Sector Workers

2020-04-15

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2020-04-15

The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has halted economies across the globe. With various countries on lockdown and companies unable to continue production, an economic downturn is inevitable. In light of this, the government of Denmark has come up with a strategy to avoid recession—paying 75 percent of private employees’ salaries.

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Why This Bubble Economy Keeps Going and Going | Thorsten Polleit

2020-04-14

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Current global bailouts may put off global busts for quite some time. But they will weaken output and employment gains. People’s standard of living will stagnate or even fall, even in the short term. With this comes impoverishment and perhaps even social unrest. Original article: https://mises.org/wire/why-bubble-economy-keeps-going-and-going Narrated by Daniella Bassi. Audio Mises Wire is also …

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Thorsten Polleit Why This Bubble Economy Keeps Going and Going

2020-04-14

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Why This Bubble Economy Keeps Going and Going Thorsten Polleit Current global bailouts may put off global busts for quite some time. But they will weaken output and employment gains. People’s standard of living will stagnate or even fall, even in the short term. With this comes impoverishment and perhaps even social unrest. Try Amazon …

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#21 Notenbanken drucken Geld: Goldpreis steigt – Golden Times

2020-04-14

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Die Notenbanken sind zurück im expansiven Modus. Vor allem die US-Notenbank Fed spielt dabei eine besonders wichtige Rolle. Degussa-Chefvolkswirt Thorsten Polleit nennt sie de facto die Weltzentralbank, denn sie produziert den US-Dollar und damit die Weltleitwährung. Die Fed hat zahlreiche Maßnahmen gestartet, um die Folgen der Corona-Pandemie zu verringern, mit “einem gigantischen Backstop”. Thorsten Polleit: …

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What Is Entrepreneurship?

2020-04-14

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2020-04-14

We shall concentrate on the capitalist-entrepreneurs, economically the more important type of entrepreneur. These are the men who invest in "capital" (land and/or capital goods) used in the productive process….

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Ep. 100: Jeff Deist on Ending the Lockdown & the Need for Secession

2020-04-13

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For my 100th episode, I welcome Mises Institute President, Jeff Deist, back to the show. Jeff brings his unique and principled perspective on ways to deal with this Coronavirus moment. We discuss the value of decentralized methods of dealing with many of the issues involved in not only this crisis, but any crisis. Top down, …

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Keynes Called Himself a Socialist. He Was Right.

2020-04-13

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2020-04-13

In 1997 Ralph Raico published an article titled “Keynes and the Reds.” Raico’s article highlighted John Maynard Keynes’s review of a 1936 book by the British socialists Sidney and Beatrice Webb called Soviet Communism. In his review, Keynes discusses Joseph Stalin’s USSR and concludes: “The result is impressive.”

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Government Overreach in the Age of COVID-19

2020-04-13

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2020-04-13

In times of crisis, governments have a tendency to overcompensate for risk. This tendency may be in the public’s best interest, but it could also serve broader governmental interests. The public and government’s interest are not always one and the same.

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Ep. 5231 – Jeff Deist on the Economic Consequences of the Coronavirus – 4/10/2020

2020-04-12

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Jeff Deist discusses the political responses to the coronavirus, varying on a state-by-state level from complete lockdown to nearly complete normalcy. Deist says this is an example of federalism actually working, since beyond issuing recommendations and printing money, there isn’t all that much the federal government can do to enforce policies across the entire country. …

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Por qué el socialismo persiste | Jeff Deist

2020-04-12

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(Programa Mises Weekends del 18 de Enero de 2019.) Jeff examina con detenimiento el socialismo actual y por qué parece obtener mayor apoyo en Estados Unidos y en todo Occidente. ¿Realmente la gente entiende el socialismo como lo hizo Mises, y realmente quieren la propiedad colectiva de la industria? ¿O sólo quieren lo que él …

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Why Mexico Is Reluctant to Shut Down Its Economy to Combat COVID-19

2020-04-12

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2020-04-12

Mexico's president Andrés Manuel López Obrador has been reluctant to impose mandatory "social distancing" orders on the Mexican population. According to USNews, López Obrador "has maintained a relaxed public attitude" toward COVID-19, and the Mexican government did not impose a ban on "non-essential" work until March 30, long after health officials in other countries insisted Mexico must do so.

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Ep. 115 Per Bylund on Regulations, COVID, and Sweden

2020-04-11

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Our guest is Per Bylund, Assistant Professor of Entrepeneurship at Oklahoma State University where he holds the Records-Johnston Professorship of Free Enterprise in the School of Entrepreneurship. We talk about regulations in the age of COVID, and he also shares his perspective on Sweden’s response to the pandemic. Show notes: https://accadandkoka.com/episode115/

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?Jeff Deist: Bitcoin for the Poor!

2020-04-11

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Vintage footage from March 2018 of Jeff Deist explaining how Bitcoin should help the poor. Full Interview: https://youtu.be/uxZlwiSPtpo ?PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/KennedyFinance ?KF STORE: https://teespring.com/stores/kennedy-financial AFFILIATE PROGRAMS: Bitcoin T-shirt: https://teespring.com/wear-zero-given#pid=2&cid=2397&sid=front Cash App: https://cash.me/app/GTGJTKF KeepKey:...

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How Risk-Based Healthcare Could Make Us Healthier

2020-04-11

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2020-04-11

It is generally the case that simple concepts in nature produce incredible complexity. This applies to the genome, where simple base pairs have evolved to express complex and multifunctional instructions that would take thousands of lines of code for any human to create. This applies to the economy, where simple ideas such as the price system become infinitely complex at scale.

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