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Besparingar och statliga icke-investeringar | #081 Radio Mises

2016-06-09

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Ludwig von Mises-Institutet i Sverige: http://www.mises.se Studion återvänder till frågan om sparandet, hur det fungerar, och huruvida det överhuvudtaget finns något som kan kallas statlig ”investering”. Därtill lite reflektioner kring statsskuld, statligt riskkapital samt löst grävande i lite migrationsstatistik. FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/mises.se TWITTER: https://twitter.com/LvMISverige REDDIT: http://www.reddit.com/r/Frihet ITUNES:...

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Free Speech Under Attack

2016-06-08

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2016-06-08

  Offending People Left and Right Bill Bonner, whose Diaries we republish here, is well-known for being an equal opportunity offender  – meaning that political affiliation, gender, age, or any other defining characteristics won’t save worthy targets ...

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Janet Yellen – Backtracking Again

2016-06-08

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2016-06-08

  Muhammad Ali Could Take a Punch BALTIMORE – You had to admit. Muhammad Ali could take a punch. Unlike Donald Trump, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton, he was a real war hero. He stood up and faced his enemies on the draft board, rather ...

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Dirk Müller im Tagesausblick vom 08.06.2016 – Milliarden-Zocker erhält Entschädigung

2016-06-08

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Aus der Kategorie “Verrückte Welt”: Milliarden-Zocker Jerome Kerviel erhält eine Entschädigung von der Société Général – ein Fall, der den Ausdruck “Too Big to Fail” treffend zusammenfasst. Weitere Themen des heutigen Tagesausblicks: – Weltbank: Schwächeres Wachstum und höheres Potential für neue Finanzkrise – Können Notenbanken Schuldenrückzahlung bis in alle Ewigkeit verschieben? – USA:...

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The Real Reason We Have a Welfare State

2016-06-07

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2016-06-07

  From Subject to Citizen BALTIMORE – June 5th, the Swiss cast their votes and registered their opinions: “No,” they said. We left off yesterday wondering why something for nothing never works. Not as monetary policy. Not as welfare or foreign aid. N...

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Dirk Müller im Tagesausblick vom 06.06.2016 – Treffen der Bilderberger in Dresden

2016-06-07

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Weitere Themen des Tagesausblicks: – Miese US-Wirtschaftsdaten: Auch der Mainstream bemüht den Begriff “Rezession” – Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen: Schweizer Souverän belebt Diskussion – DAX an 200-Tage-Linie – EU-Einlagensicherung verliert an Rückhalt – Datenpanne bei der Deutschen Bank: So hilfreich kann Bargeld sein www.cashkurs.com – Ihre unabhängige Finanzinformationsplattform zu den Themen Börse,...

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Moving Closer to BREXIT

2016-06-07

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2016-06-07

  Polls Show Growing Support for a Break with the EU In the UK as elsewhere, the political elites may have underestimated the strength of the trend change in social mood across Europe. The most recent “You-Gov” and ICM pools show a widening lead in f...

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Free Money Leaves Everyone Poorer

2016-06-07

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2016-06-07

  Destroying Lives BALTIMORE – A dear reader reminded us of the comment, supposedly made by Groucho Marx: “A free lunch? You can’t afford a free lunch.”   Groucho dispensing valuable advice Photo via imdb.com   He was responding to last week’s Diary ...

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Is it Time to Buy Real Estate? Yes and No

2016-06-07

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2016-06-07

  Is it Time to Buy Income-Producing Real Estate?  No, No, No. Much to the dismay of my real estate buddies, who are complaining about how high prices while watching the cash flow of their portfolios bursting at the seams from a few good years of ren...

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Walter Block | #080 Radio Mises

2016-06-06

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Ludwig von Mises-Institutet i Sverige: http://www.mises.se Radio Mises har nöjet att intervjua den politiskt inkorrekte Walter Block. Han talar om ”Defending the Undefendable”, personligt om Murray Rothbard, varför dvärgkastning inte bör förbjudas, varför det är bra med korrumperade poliser och en hel hög andra normbrytande ämnen. Känsliga lyssnare varnas. FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/mises.se TWITTER: https://twitter.com/LvMISverige REDDIT:...

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Robert P. Murphy – The Worst Economist in the World

2016-06-06

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Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpUuM8KoHds

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8 Lessons That We Can Learn From The Economic Meltdown In Venezuela

2016-06-05

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2016-06-05

Submitted by Michael Snyder via The End of The American Dream blog, We are watching an entire nation collapse right in front of our eyes.  As you read this article, there are severe shortages of just about anything you can imagine in Venezuela.&nb...

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Saudi-Arabia: Peg or Banking Crisis?

2016-06-04

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2016-06-04

During the reign of the mighty petro-dollar standard, it was necessary for major oil exporters to recycle their dollar holdings back into the dollar-based financial system to maintain their self-imposed exchange rate pegs. US government bonds are the...

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Swiss Referendum: The new World of Bread and Circuses

2016-06-04

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2016-06-04

Swiss Referendum Minimum Income
9 out of 10 workers could be permanently replaced by robots. The working classes of Rome were put out of work by “robots,” too – slaves captured in Rome’s many successful conquests. Given the Swiss initiative for the minimum income, welcome to the world of bread and circuses!

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Twitter’s Other Growing Problem – A Surging Share Count

2016-06-04

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2016-06-04

It seems like almost everybody has an opinion about Twitter. As for the company it seems that their “window of opportunity” to massively succeed has essentially closed as user growth and revenue have both slowed, quite dramatically, over the past 18 months. Oddly, the strategy at Twitter seems to be not to thrive, but just to survive.

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Turning Stones Into Bread – The Japanese Miracle

2016-06-03

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2016-06-03

  Stuffing the Futon Our friend Ramsey Su just asked what Haruhiko Kuroda and Shinzo Abe are going to do now in light of the strong yen (aside from perhaps doing the honorable thing). Isn’t it time to just “wipe out some debt with the stroke of a pen...

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Guided By Nonsense

2016-06-03

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2016-06-03

  Seven Year Achievement   “Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the right direction.” — Lewis Carroll   See? It’s easy Janet! Just read the directions! Illustration credit: Walt Disney   U.S. consumers are at it again.  After a s...

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Dimitri Speck ueber Gold, Inflation, Negativzinsen und EZB-Anleihenkaeufe

2016-06-03

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http://responsa-liberta.de/ Auf der Mark Banco Anlegertagung Ende Mai 2016 in Hamburg haben wir mit Dimitri Speck über die aktuellen Entwicklungen rund um Euro und aktuelle Geldpolitik der Notenbank gesprochen. Auch die Verschuldungssituation weltweit, mögliche künftige Entwicklungen sowie mögliche Folgen für Anleger und Sparer sind Themen des Video-Interviews. Quelle: http://responsa-liberta.de/

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Grasping Parasites and Bernie the Underdog

2016-06-03

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2016-06-03

The system changed in 1971, when President Nixon took the dollar off the gold standard. Since then, the powers that be no longer depended on Congress… or savers…or voters… to raise the funds they needed. What about Bernie Sanders?

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OPEC’s Game within a Game

2016-06-02

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2016-06-02

The fact OPEC just agreed to agree on nothing in Vienna. What next? Lots of noise about collective output vs. country allocations.

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