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Let’s Be Honest: The Economy Is NOT Doing Well

2024-04-10

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2024-04-10

The American economy is not all right. But to see why, you need to look beyond the dramatic numbers we keep seeing in the headlines and establishment talking points.Take, for instance, the latest jobs report. For the third month in a row, the American economy added significantly more jobs than most economists had been expecting—a total of 303,000 for March. On its face, that’s a good number.But as Ryan McMaken laid out over the weekend, things...

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OJO, que vienen Curvas

2024-04-09

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Watch Our New Fed Documentary Teaser Now!

2024-04-09

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2024-04-09

Dr. Paul is right! People need to look at the money issue. Wars, spending, debt accumulation, subsidies, and foreign aid are intimately linked to the money machine known as the Federal Reserve.Central banks have two main purposes: inflate the money supply and bail out the big financial firms. By inflating the money supply, governments can finance their operations cheaply and surreptitiously at our expense. If we wish to expose the state and all its...

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Hair of the Dog — Progressives in Congress Need Another Hit of Low Interest Rates

2024-04-09

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2024-04-09

Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and the Congressional Progressive Caucus recently sent an open letter to the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, demanding lower interest rates.The letter is full of the economic illiteracy one would expect from progressives, especially those in Congress. For example, it misreads price inflation data and argues that the failure to lower interest rates endangers home affordability and increases income...

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CNN Is Wrong. Deflation Is a Good Thing

2024-04-09

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2024-04-09

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California’s Latest Hustle: Utility Bills Based on Ratepayers’ Income

2024-04-09

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2024-04-09

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Police Dogs Have Abolished Constitutional Due Process

2024-04-09

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2024-04-09

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How State Intervention Fueled Haiti’s Descent into Chaos

2024-04-09

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2024-04-09

[unable to retrieve full-text content]As the official government in Haiti loses control, many are calling it a failed state. Crises like this are often evoked to discredit libertarians. But blame for Haiti’s current plight lies with the actions of states, not the absence of them.

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Two Cheers for Vivek Ramaswamy for His Commentary on the Fed

2024-04-09

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2024-04-09

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Who Really Works Against the Public?

2024-04-09

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2024-04-09

“The public be damned” is a statement by railroad magnate William Henry Vanderbilt that has been twisted out of context. While the American ruling classes insist that private enterprise is the enemy of the people, it really is our government that bears that distinction.

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Personal Medical Bankruptcy: Made in DC

2024-04-09

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2024-04-09

[unable to retrieve full-text content]When the government wants to make something more affordable, that usually means new subsidies, laws, and regulations that drive up the real price. Higher medical prices will mean more medical bankruptcies.

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Failing to Make the Case for Race-Based Reparations

2024-04-09

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2024-04-09

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Carl Menger’s Overlooked Vital Evolutionary Insights

2024-04-09

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2024-04-09

Carl Menger is widely recognized as one of the economists leading the so-called marginalist revolution along with William Stanley Jevons and Léon Walras. There are two other contributions by Menger that are relatively underappreciated and are vital for making sense of the socioeconomic order, including why mankind remains so lost in economic ignorance and tribalistic warmongering.They are, first, his insights into the proper method or way to study...

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Is Gold Overpriced or Can Its Price Go Even Higher?

2024-04-09

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2024-04-09

This question has been at the center of a great many conversations I’ve been recently having with clients and friends. The way I like to answer it is with another question: Expensive compared to what?Despite its recent surge to record highs, there are compelling reasons why purchasing gold right now is a prudent decision, with strong indications that its value is poised to climb even higher. Making investment decisions solely based on the current...

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La IZQUIERDA y su SILENCIO CÓMPLICE ante el FASCISMO en VENEZUELA

2024-04-08

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El gobierno represor y dictatorial de #Maduro ha lanzado una ley contra el #fascismo. Una ley que lo que hace es cercenar cualquier pensamiento disidente y poner penas de varios años de cárcel a cualquier persona que tenga un pensamiento diferente al #comunismo extractivo, destructor y asesino que ellos defienden. Te animo a suscribirte a mi canal y te invito a seguirme en mis redes sociales: ☑ Twitter - https://twitter.com/dlacalle ☑ Instagram...

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Banking’s Unique Business Model, And Why Capital is not a “Rainy Day Fund”

2024-04-08

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2024-04-08

Banks are highly regulated businesses, as expected of entities to which we entrust our money, and from which we may expect to borrow someday to buy a home or start a business. Bankers interact with regulators daily. Investors wishing to establish a bank must first obtain capital pledges from future shareowners and apply for a bank charter from either federal or state government regulators. Once in business, a bank is overseen by one or more of the...

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The Rise of Populism Reflects the Decline in Individual Freedom

2024-04-08

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2024-04-08

So-called populist political parties and politicians gained considerable traction with Western voters in recent years, despite being dismissed in many cases as “a threat to democracy” and “extremists” by mainstream politicians. With the election of Donald Trump in the US and of Javier Milei in Argentina, the surge in polls and electoral wins of right and far-right parties in several European countries sent shockwaves through the political...

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Is gold too expensive to buy right now?

2024-04-08

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2024-04-08

Share this article This question has been at the center of a great many conversations I’ve been recently having with clients and friends. The way I like to answer it is with another question: Expensive compared to what?  Despite its recent surge to record highs, there are compelling reasons why purchasing gold right now is a prudent decision, with strong indications that its value is poised to climb even higher. Making investment decisions...

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California’s Crony Capitalist Minimum Wage Law

2024-04-08

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2024-04-08

On April 1, California raised the minimum wage for large fast food restaurant franchises to $20 an hour. This law will threaten seven hundred thousand jobs by destroying the state’s food franchising business; however, there is one notable fast food franchise exempted from this minimum wage hike: Panera.Greg Flynn is the second-largest Panera franchisee in the world, but he is also known for his close relationship with California governor Gavin...

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The Tariff of Abominations and the Era of Good Stealings

2024-04-08

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2024-04-08

Few Americans seem aware of the fact that it was the New England Federalists who plotted to secede from the union a half century before the 1860-61 secession of the Southern states. Their efforts culminated in the Hartford secession convention of 1814 where they decided in the end to remain in the union after all, confident that they would eventually dominate national politics to their economic advantage. The leader of the New England secessionists...

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