Category Archive: 6b) Austrian Economics

A Case for Argentina’s Dollarization: Why and How to Implement It

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Ayn Rand and the Austrian Economists

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The Drug War

In this episode, Mark shares the latest video in the Mises Institute's The Costs of the Progressives series, "The Drug War," which cites Mark's research on the economics of prohibition."The Costs of the Progressives" is a historical series that focuses on great leaps in Washington's consolidation of power on a variety of issues that affect our day-to-day lives, and the costs we pay with our taxes and our liberty:...

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Personal Medical Bankruptcy: Made in DC

One unintended consequence of federal government intervention or regulation of medicine is individuals or families declaring federal bankruptcy for large unpaid medical bills. US healthcare costs and miles to the nearest star is measured in trillions. US healthcare spending reached $4.1 trillion in 2020 according to the most recent data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Americans spent $12,530 per person on medical care in...

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The Fed Doesn’t Know the Natural Rate of Interest

Published in The Wall Street Journal:Mr. Levy describes the Fed’s permanent problem: It doesn’t and can’t know what the natural rate of interest is. Everyone should pity the members of the Federal Open Market Committee, who must inwardly confess that they can’t know the answers, yet have to play their parts in the Fed melodrama nonetheless.Alex J. PollockSenior fellow, Mises InstituteLake Forest, Ill.Appeared in the March 14, 2024, print edition as...

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Self-Ownership and the Right to Self-Defense

Self-defense is an ancient common law right under which necessary and reasonable force may be used to defend one’s person or property. As Sir Edward Coke expressed it in 1604: “The house of every one is to him as his Castle and Fortress as well for defence against injury and violence . . . if thieves come to a man’s house to rob him, or murder, and the owner or his servants kill any of the thieves in defense of himself and his house, it is no...

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¿No Pagar IMPUESTOS Te Hace ANTIPATRIOTA?

Pedro Sánchez dice que ser patriota es pagar impuestos, pero patriotismo es gestionar recursos eficientemente. Su gobierno derrocha y aumenta la deuda. Te animo a suscribirte a mi canal y te invito a seguirme en mis redes sociales: ☑ Twitter - https://twitter.com/dlacalle ☑ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/lacalledanie ☑ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/dlacalle ☑ Página web - https://www.dlacalle.com ☑ Mis libros en Amazon -...

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La DOLARIZACIÓN es reconocer la REALIDAD de la ECONOMÍA ARGENTINA

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Dirk Müller – DFB: Wie bitte? Habeck fordert „mehr Standortpatriotismus“

Die Einschätzung zu den wichtigsten Kennzahlen der beiden Aktien gibt es im exklusiven Teil des Videos! 👉 𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐤𝐮𝐫𝐬.𝐜𝐨𝐦: 𝐉𝐞𝐭𝐳𝐭 𝟏 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐭 𝐟ü𝐫 𝟏€ 𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧 ►► https://bit.ly/Cashkurs_1 𝗦𝗲𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗦𝗶𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝘀 𝗴𝗮𝗻𝘇𝗲 𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨-𝐔𝐩𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝘃𝗼𝗻 𝗗𝗶𝗿𝗸 𝗠ü𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿 𝗵𝗶𝗲𝗿: https://bit.ly/Marktupdate240322 (Bei diesem Video handelt es sich um einen kurzen Ausschnitt aus dem Marktupdate vom 22.03.2024 auf Cashkurs.com.) 📧 Gratis-Newsletter inkl. täglichem DAX-Update ►►►...

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Hazlitt Against Keynes on Unemployment and Wages: A Lesson for Modern Macroeconomics

The Failure of the ‘New Economics’ thoroughly demolished the Keynesian system. Unfortunately, this “economic demolition” as Rothbard called it (Hazlitt 2007 [1959], xvi), went ignored by the mainstream despite it carrying implications that would have prevented the decline in theoretical vigor of mainstream economics that was Keynesianism. Hazlitt’s argument against Keynesianism was more than a mere theoretical critique; it was a robust argument...

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“Army Values”

Conservatives are upset that the U.S. Military Academy—West Point—has removed the phrase “Duty, Honor, and Country” from its mission statement.The phrase comes from a farewell address that retired general Douglas MacArthur—who attended West Point from 1899 to 1903—delivered to West Point cadets in 1962. The old mission statement was first formally adopted by the Academy in 1998.The change was announced in a letter from West Point superintendent...

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Shades of Gray

The New Leviathans: Thoughts after Liberalismby John GrayFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023; 192 pp.John Gray is a strange case. He is a political philosopher who taught for many decades at Oxford and the London School of Economics, and he has become one of the leading British “public intellectuals.” A friend of the rich and famous, including George Soros, he abandoned long ago the classical liberal beliefs he held in the late 1970s and early 1980s....

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Kambodscha – mein Reisebericht mit Immobilien & Co.

Reisebericht aus Kambodscha: Immobilienmarkt, Wirtschaft und persönliche Eindrücke Klartext-E-Letter: https://thorstenwittmann.com/klartext-yt Homepage Thorsten Wittmann: https://thorstenwittmann.com/ Ja, meine 5-tägige Reise mit dem Hauptziel der Immobilienrecherche war durchaus interessant. Begleitet hat mich Thom aus unserem Finanzteam, der inzwischen in Thailand lebt und zukünftig v. a. den südostasiatischen Bereich vor Ort abdecken wird....

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Esta es la HEMEROTECA de Yolanda Díaz e Íñigo Errejón

Yolanda Díaz e Íñigo Errejón, defensores de regímenes comunistas, pretenden hablar sobre libertad. #DíazErrejónDebate #comunismo #socialismo #DemocraciaOControlEstatal #AnálisisPolítico #YolandaDíaz #ÍñigoErrejón Te animo a suscribirte a mi canal y te invito a seguirme en mis redes sociales: ☑ Twitter - https://twitter.com/dlacalle ☑ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/lacalledanie ☑ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/dlacalle ☑ Página web -...

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The Money Supply Fell for the Fifteenth Month in a Row as Full-Time Jobs Disappear

Money supply growth fell again in January, remaining deep in negative territory after turning negative in November 2022 for the first time in twenty-eight years. January's drop continues a steep downward trend from the unprecedented highs experienced during much of the past three years.Since April 2021, money supply growth has slowed quickly, and since late 2022, we've been seeing the money supply repeatedly contract, year over year. The last time...

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Looking Back at the Crossroads: Liberty or Socialism

Ludwig von Mises begins his book Bureaucracy by declaring that the main issue facing the West in his time was whether man should surrender his liberty to the “gigantic apparatus of compulsion and coercion, the socialist state.” He rephrases: “Should [man] be deprived of his most precious privilege to choose means and ends and to shape his own life?”This question is imminently pressing in the modern day as well, save that we in the West, eight...

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New Video: A Lecture on State Militias and the Second Amendment

Power & Market offers a contrarian take on world events. We favor individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Connect to Power & Market via Twitter and RSS.Power & Market is published CC4, unless denoted otherwise.

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Bureaucracy: Applying Mises’s Insights to Our Present Day

Human prosperity, contrary to the beliefs of those fanatically obsessed with viewing the government as a savior of humanity, is not guaranteed. For the vast majority of its existence, mankind was impoverished, only recently experiencing unprecedented levels of prosperity and flourishing. This recent state of affairs is not guaranteed to go on forever; its growth could be halted or it could regress the world back to widespread impoverishment if...

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El GOBIERNO contra los AGRICULTORES

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No, There Is Not a Perfect Open Border System between the States

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