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The Great Reset and the Grand Refusal

2023-04-28

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2023-04-28

Recorded in Birmingham, Alabama on April 22, 2023. From the Mises Institute's recent event in Birmingham, Alabama dedicated to the global threat of "The Great Reset".

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Mises Meetup Opelika

2023-04-28

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2023-04-28

Join Mises Club Opelika for their second meeting at Botanic in Opelika. The Meetup will take place Saturday, June 24.  There is no registration fee, but attendance will be limited due to space.  Please contact Ed Kerns to reserve your spot or if you have any questions, [email protected].

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Equality Requires State Violence

2023-04-28

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2023-04-28

Although equality and "equity" are modern buzzwords, the only way to reach such a social nirvana is through violent means. Do we really want to go there? Original Article: "Equality Requires State Violence" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon.

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Canada’s Housing Boom Was a Bubble. Now Comes the Bust

2023-04-28

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2023-04-28

The latest Canadian housing data showed a slight uptick in prices and a pause from 2022’s correction, and a new wave of dip buyers has already begun to call this a buying opportunity, as if valuations at ten times average annual income and 50 percent more expensive than their cash flows were anything but still extremely overvalued. This is merely the most recent development in what appears to be the end of Canada’s massive housing bubble and the...

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The Environmentalist Revolt against Humanity.

2023-04-28

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2023-04-28

The Revolt against Humanity: Imagining a Future without Usby Adam KirschColumbia Global Reports, 2023; 100 pp. Aristotle says in book 1 of the Nicomachean Ethics that “happiness, therefore, being found to be something final and self-sufficient, is the End at which all actions aim.” The Greek word eudaimonia, “happiness” in this edition, is often translated as “flourishing.” Isn’t it obviously true that you want your life to flourish? Of course, all...

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The Economics of Space Travel

2023-04-28

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2023-04-28

Are NASA contracts propping up the private space industry? Or are Government regulations stifling the private space race? Dr. Eli Dourado, Senior Research Fellow with the Center for Growth and Opportunity at Utah State University, joins Bob to discuss the recent "successful failure" of the exploded SpaceX launch and the differences between government and privately funded space travel. Dr. Dourado on NASA contracting private companies to...

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No, the Financial Crisis Is Not Over

2023-04-28

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2023-04-28

As markets settle down after the last set of bank failures, political elites claim the crisis is behind us. But it is not over, not by a long shot. Original Article: "No, the Financial Crisis Is Not Over" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon.

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Neither Red nor Blue, but Free

2023-04-28

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2023-04-28

The human tendency to kill what one fears asserted itself on April 4, 2023, as a Manhattan district attorney called Donald Trump into his office to issue a vague threat. What crime Trump was being charged with is known only to Alvin Bragg, but the rest of the world is left playing a guessing game. Trump supporters are rallying everyone with a heartbeat to support their candidate. It’s survival time. Even a few Trump haters are finding a way to...

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An American Originalist

2023-04-27

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2023-04-27

Scalia: Rise to Greatness, 1936–1986by James RosenRegnery Publishing, 2023496 pages James Rosen, who has written biographies of John Mitchell and Dick Cheney, and was for many years a reporter for Fox News, is a neoconservative and Reagan Republican. He has found an ideal biographical subject in Antonin Scalia, a Reagan Republican, who served for thirty years on the Supreme Court. The volume under review, the first of two, covers the time from...

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The Road to a Single Fiat World Currency

2023-04-27

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2023-04-27

What if the world’s states were to come together and create a single world currency? From a purely economic point of view, there would be significant advantages if every nation didn’t operate with its own money but with the same currency. Not only for an individual economy, but for the world economy as a whole, the optimal number of currencies is one. Let’s take a look. The decisive factor is how this single world currency comes about, and who...

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Quantitative Easing to Infinity and Beyond

2023-04-27

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2023-04-27

On Sunday morning, March 12, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told CBS there would be no bailouts. Later in the day the Fed declared quantitative easing to infinity and beyond. What’s going on? Quite simply, the Fed is willing to overpay for debt (again). They call it the Bank Term Funding Program (BTFP), and as far as one can tell, its dollar value is limitless. The term sheet reads: Program: To provide liquidity to U.S. depository institutions,...

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It’s Not Paranoid to Worry about a Central Bank Digital Currency

2023-04-27

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2023-04-27

Contrary to Krugman, DeSantis and others warning about a CBDC aren’t being paranoid: they are simply drawing the obvious conclusions from history. Original Article: "It’s Not Paranoid to Worry about a Central Bank Digital Currency" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon.

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Rothbard War Right: Wars Don’t Enhance Freedom. They Destroy Liberty.

2023-04-27

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2023-04-27

Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, Western leaders have declared that Ukraine was defending not only its own freedom, but ours too. President Joe Biden, to whom apparently “freedom is priceless,” vowed to support Ukraine for “as long as it takes.” In turn, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that the American support for Ukraine is not charity but an “investment in global security”. Other commentators also argue that a Ukrainian victory...

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From the Publisher March–April 2023

2023-04-27

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2023-04-27

Mere inflation—that is, the mere issuance of more money , with the consequence of higher wages and prices—may look like the creation of more demand. But in terms of the actual production and exchange of real things it is not.—Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson Money is among the most important forms of technology. It solves the fundamental human problem of barter and allows us to transfer value across geography and time. By enabling efficient...

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Why the Dollar Still Beats the Euro and the Yuan

2023-04-27

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2023-04-27

Understanding what turns an ordinary currency into a global reserve currency can help us understand how the dollar could go into decline and give way to competing currencies. Original Article: "Why the Dollar Still Beats the Euro and the Yuan" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon.

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ESG: Another Fraudulent Hustle That Progressive Elites Have Foisted on the Economy

2023-04-27

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2023-04-27

The allure of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals has hypnotized corporate America into offering ESG funds that score investments for prioritizing social goals. Companies that account for environmental, social, and governance goals in their decisions collectively held $8.4 trillion in US investment assets at the beginning of 2022. Leading investment firm BlackRock more than doubled its holdings to over $500 billion and other players...

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Here’s What Mounting Corporate Layoffs Tell Us about the Economy

2023-04-27

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2023-04-27

Ryan McMaken and Dr. Mark Thornton cover the state of the dollar as global reserve currency, and why employers are laying off more and more of their highest paid workers. [embedded content] PROMO CODE: RothPod for 20% off Subscribe to Mark's weekly Minor Issues podcast at Mises.org/MinorIssues. Be sure to follow Radio Rothbard at Mises.org/RadioRothbard.

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How Australia and New Zealand Helped Provoke and Escalate the First World War

2023-04-26

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2023-04-26

Most Western historians claim that World War I came about because of aggression from Germany and Austria-Hungary. However, Great Britain and its ANZAC allies were not innocent bystanders. Original Article: "How Australia and New Zealand Helped Provoke and Escalate the First World War" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon.

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Why the Chinese Yuan Won’t Kill the Dollar

2023-04-26

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2023-04-26

Former US President Donald Trump has expressed concern that China could displace the US dollar as the global reserve currency. The warning follows reports of agreements between various nations to use the yuan in commodity transactions. For years, rumors have circulated about the demise of the US dollar as a global reserve currency, but the greenback continues to be the most traded and extensively used currency in the fiat world. The US dollar is by...

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Banking Crises and the Weaponization of Money and Banking

2023-04-26

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2023-04-26

Recorded in Birmingham, Alabama on April 22, 2023. From the Mises Institute's recent event in Birmingham, Alabama dedicated to the global threat of "The Great Reset". [embedded content]

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