Category Archive: 6b.) Mises.org

SoFlaa: Early Escuelita, travel experiences to many countries, 5x award winning docu-series, la jama

This is the full podcast release of director and filmmaker Solflaa, you can listen to him discuss his early escuelita as a filmmaker, his travel experiences to Africa, Japan, Brazil, and his 5x award-winning Docu-series "never too late" based on Uly "monster Diaz" and la Jama tv and the future of the brand and collaborations. FIYE show instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fiye.show/ Soflaa...

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The Epistemological Case for Capitalism

[This article is excerpted from chapter 21 of Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism.] In the early 1950s, Mises's NYU seminar dealt increasingly with epistemological questions. As he said to Ludwig Lachmann, he felt that the analysis of epistemological problems would be the number one task in the social sciences in the coming years.

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Rising Interest Rates May Blow Up the Federal Budget

Congress enjoys exorbitant political privilege in the form of cheap deficit spending—but it may soon come to an end.

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Inflation IS Money Supply Growth, Not Prices Denominated in Money

In the recent Wall Street Journal article “Inflation Surge Earns Monetarism Another Look,” Greg Ip writes that a recent surge in inflation is not likely to bring authorities to reembrace monetarism. According to Ip, money supply had a poor record of predicting US inflation because of conceptual and definitional problems that haven’t gone away.

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Nine Ways Debt and Deficit Spending Severely Harm African Societies

Systemic debt and deficit spending are intrinsic features of today's economic system. Unlike classical economics, where markets play the leading role and governments the supporting one, the existing economic model, driven by Keynesian theory, has inverted the roles.

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When We Started the Idea of Health Insurance & Jeff Deist’s Medical Model with Shawn & Janet Needham

On this clip of Health Solutions, Shawn & Janet Needham RPh talk to Jeff Deist about his medical model and when we started the idea of health insurance. Human natures tells us that people are more likely to consume more free medicine than they might need.

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Federalism, Not Centralization, Is the Way out of the Current Conflicts

The overturning of Roe v. Wade is a historic decision, upholding the highest principle of a republic. A republic is born through freedom of association in the same manner as individuals band together to form a family, families band together to make a community, and communities band together to make a society.

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How Bad Were Recessions before the Fed? Not as Bad as They Are Now

The Federal Reserve was supposed to prevent recessions that people blamed on the lack of central banking. Not surprisingly, the post-Fed recessions have been worse.

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How the Government Ruined the Free Market in Healthcare with Jeff Deist from Mises Institute

On this podcast we will be talking with Jeff Diest from Mises Institute about How the government ruined the free market in healthcare. Jeff Deist is president of the Mises Institute, where he serves as a writer, public speaker, and advocate for property, markets, and civil society.

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The Role of Ideas

1. Human Reason Reason is man's particular and characteristic feature. There is no need for praxeology to raise the question whether reason is a suitable tool for the cognition of ultimate and absolute truth. It deals with reason only as far as it enables man to act.

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Soflaa talks about La Jama tv, food truck, upcoming projects, & future plans for the brand.

In this segment, Soflaa talks about La Jama tv and his partnership with chef Frankie, La Jama food truck that opened this year, upcoming projects with Vice, and future plans for the brand. FIYE SHOW Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fiye.show/ Soflaa instagram: https://www.instagram.com/soflaaa/ La Jama tv:https://www.instagram.com/lajamatv/

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Foreign Policy Fail: Biden’s Sanctions are a Windfall For Russia!

It’s easy to see why, according to a new Harris poll, 71 percent of Americans said they do not want Joe Biden to run for re-election. As Americans face record gas prices and the highest inflation in 40 years, President Biden admits he could not care less.

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Director & filmmaker on his projects “croqueta nation” and “never too late” won 4x short film awards

In this segment Director and filmmaker Soflaa talks about his short film "Croqueta nation" which partnered with Sergio's restaurant, and "never too late" a short docu-series on Uly "Monster" Diaz while winning four best short film awards.

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Entrepreneurship Should Be the Goal, Not White-Collar Jobs

Black entrepreneurship in the United States has a remarkable history. Even during the inhospitable climate of Southern slavery, both enslaved and free blacks managed to establish lucrative ventures. Research on black entrepreneurship has revealed that in the Antebellum South black entrepreneurs' pursuits spanned the entire gamut of industry, ranging from merchandising to transportation.

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Here We Go Again: The Fed Is Causing Another Recession

The primary cause of the recurring “boom and bust” business cycle is central banks like the Federal Reserve creating money out of thin air. This was first explained by Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises over a century ago. His student F.A. Hayek won the 1974 Nobel Prize in economics for his work on this theory, which is now known as Austrian business cycle theory.

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Director & filmmaker on how his career has led him to travel the world Japan, Africa, Brazil, London

In this segment Director and Filmmaker, Soflaa talks about how his career has led him to many travels around the world including Africa, Brazil, Japan, London, and more. FIYE show instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fiye.show/ Soflaa Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/soflaaa/

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Krugman Is Wrong (Again): Artificially Low Interest Rates Created Bubbles

In his June 21 New York Times article “Is the Era of Cheap Money Over?,” Paul Krugman argues against the view that the Fed has kept interest rates artificially low for the past ten to twenty years.

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filmmaker & director talks about real-life lessons “Escuelita” (part one)

In this first segment filmmaker & director Guillermo Alfonso (Soflaa) talks about his best learning experiences and those were his teaching moments that prepared him for his independent projects. FIYE show instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fiye.show/ Guillermo Alfonso instagram: https://www.instagram.com/soflaaa/

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To Avoid Civil War, Learn to Tolerate Different Laws in Different States

Most commentary on the Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization—which overturns Roe v. Wade—has focused on the decision's effect on the legality of abortion in various states. That's an important issue. It may be, however, that the Dobbs decision's effect on political decentralization in the United States is a far bigger deal.

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How Money Printing Destroyed Argentina and Can Destroy Others

Inflation in Argentina is far worse than neighboring countries. It has only one cause: an extractive and confiscatory monetary policy—printing pesos without control and without demand.

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