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Cash Bans and the Next Crisis

2016-09-15

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2016-09-15

Kenneth Rogoff
Money sometimes goes “full politics”. Take poor Kenneth Rogoff at Harvard. He wants a dollar with a voter registration card, a U.S. flag on its windshield, and a handgun in its belt – the kind of money that supports the Establishment and votes for Hillary.

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David Rosenberg: The World Is Turning More Inward, Insular and Isolated

2016-09-15

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Download a FREE transcript of David Rosenberg’s speech from the Strategic Investment Conference 2016 here: https://goo.gl/LleBMl

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Fullpackat med värdegrund – mitt program för skolan!

2016-09-14

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Politik är att tycka; att tycka rätt och fint. Dessa saker tycker Jonny Lander är ypperliga kvaliteter i det politiska spelet. Känslorna blir starka när skolfrågor kommer på tal. Som politiker gäller det då att man inte ryggar tillbaka utan snarare utmanar sina rivaler och visar sig stark. I denna film utmanar Jonny utbildningsministern Fridolfin …

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Jag övar på att vara politiker

2016-09-14

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Alla stora politiker som till exempel Stefan Löfven började med att tycka, och jag är bra på att tycka, jag kan bli som Stefan Löfven! Ludwig von Mises-Institutet i Sverige: http://www.mises.se FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/mises.se TWITTER: https://twitter.com/LvMISverige REDDIT: http://www.reddit.com/r/Frihet ITUNES: https://itunes.apple.com/se/podcast/radio-mises/id744938926?mt=2 GOOGLE+: https://google.com/+MisesSeMotStaten LINKEDIN:...

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Rogoff Warns “Cash Is Not Forever, It’s A Curse”

2016-09-14

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2016-09-14

Kenneth Rogoff, Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University, postulates to get rid of cash. In his opinion, killing big bills would hamper organized crime and make negative interest more effective. Kenneth Rogoff makes a provocative proposal. One of the most influential economists on the planet, he wants to phase out cash.

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Dirk Müller im Tagesausblick vom 13.09.2016 – Finaler Sell-Off beim Rohöl?

2016-09-13

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Weitere Themen des Tagesausblicks: – Wahlkampfduell Trump gegen Clinton im Endspurt – Personalkarussell zwischen Banken und Politik – Militärische Anfeindungen in Asien www.cashkurs.com – Ihre unabhängige Finanzinformationsplattform zu den Themen Börse, Wirtschaft, Finanzmarkt von und mit Dirk Müller

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Economic Collapse on the way: Bill Bonner speaking

2016-09-13

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Attack The Fed’s War On Savers, Workers And The Unborn (Taxpayers)

2016-09-13

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2016-09-13

The central banks have gone so far off the deep-end with financial price manipulation that it is only a matter of time before some astute politician comes after them with all barrels blasting. As a matter of fact, that appears to be exactly what Donald Trump unloaded on bubble vision this morning:

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Case For -2 percent Rates, Banning Cash? Jim Grant Blasts Lunatic Proposals

2016-09-11

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2016-09-11

Looking for group think, extrapolation of extreme silliness, linear thinking, and belief in absurd models? Then look no further than Fed presidents, their advisors, and academia loaded charlatan professors. Today’s spotlight is on Marvin Goodfriend, a former economist and policy advisor at the Federal Reserve’s Bank of Richmond, and Ken Rogoff, a chaired Harvard economics professor, a one-time chief economist at the International Monetary Fund.

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FreedomFest 2016 och Per Bylunds nya bok. Seen, Unseen, Unrealized | #086 Radio Mises

2016-09-10

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Ludwig von Mises-Institutet i Sverige: http://www.mises.se Köp Per Bylunds nya bok (30% billigare med rabattkod: LEX30AUTH16) https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780739194577/The-Seen-the-Unseen-and-the-Unrealized-How-Regulations-Affect-Our-Everyday-Lives Institutets professor, Per Bylund, gästar studion. Ämnet för dagen är professorns nya bok, en grundläggande läsebok i nationalekonomi i Bastiats anda. Dessutom avhandlas den nyligen avklarade Freedomfesten...

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Fiction, Fairy Tales, and Fiat

Do young Americans today know anything about economics? No, they don't, according to a study during the 2016 presidential primary season, which says lots of other Americans don't either. The survey found 58% of millennials favor government-run socialism (statistically 6 out of 10), while a nearly identical number (64%) don't want government interference in free markets.

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Negative and the War On Cash, Part 2: “Closing The Escape Routes”

2016-09-08

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2016-09-08

History teaches us that central authorities dislike escape routes, at least for the majority, and are therefore prone to closing them, so that control of a limited money supply can remain in the hands of the very few. In the 1930s, gold was the escape route, so gold was confiscated. As Alan Greenspan wrote in 1966:

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How is Real Wealth Created?

2016-09-08

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2016-09-08

An Abrupt Drop. Let’s turn back to our regular beat: the U.S. economy and its capital markets. We’ve been warning that the Fed would never make any substantial increase to interest rates. Not willingly, at least. Each time Fed chief Janet Yellen opens her mouth, out comes a hint that more rate hikes might be coming.

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US Economy – Curious Pattern in ISM Readings

2016-09-08

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2016-09-08

Head Fake Theory Confirmed? This is a brief update on our last overview of economic data. Although we briefly discussed employment as well, the overview was as usual mainly focused on manufacturing, which is the largest sector of the economy by gross output.

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Cash in a box catches on as Swiss negative rates bite

2016-09-07

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2016-09-07

It’s a sign the world is getting used to negative interest rates when what once seemed bizarre starts looking like the norm. Consider Switzerland, where more and more companies are taking out insurance policies to protect their cash hoards from theft or damage.

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The Real Reason Trump Met with Mexico’s President

2016-09-07

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George Friedman writes the free weekly column “This Week in Geopolitics” for Mauldin Economics. Subscribe here: http://goo.gl/HPYseB. Each week, you’ll receive an in-depth view of the forces driving events and investors in the next year, decade, or even a century from now.

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Ryan McMaken – Abolish the FBI

2016-09-06

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From the Tom Woods show, Ryan McMaken (Mises Institute) joins Tom to explain the origins of the FBI and suggests they have both outlived their usefulness and transmogrified into very political national police force. http://www.LibertyPen.com

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John Maynard Keynes’ General Theory Eighty Years Later

2016-09-06

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2016-09-06

The “Scientific” Fig Leaf for Statism and Interventionism. To the economic and political detriment of the Western world and those economies beyond which have adopted its precepts, 2016 marks the eightieth anniversary of the publication of one of, if not, the most influential economics books ever penned, John Maynard Keynes’ The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.

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Joakim Fagerström om realistisk libertarianism | FreedomFest 2016

2016-09-05

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Ludwig von Mises-Institutet i Sverige: http://www.mises.se Joakim Fagerstöm, den ene av det svenska Mises-institutets grundare, talar om libertarianism i verkligheten. Han tar upp tre exempel på fristäder som existerar idag. Är icke-aggressionsprincipen tillräcklig att bygga ett samhälle på? FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/mises.se TWITTER: https://twitter.com/LvMISverige REDDIT: http://www.reddit.com/r/Frihet ITUNES:...

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Negative Rates and The War On Cash, Part 1: “There Is Nowhere To Go But Down”

2016-09-04

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2016-09-04

As momentum builds in the developing deflationary spiral, we are seeing increasingly desperate measures to keep the global credit ponzi scheme from its inevitable conclusion. Credit bubbles are dynamic — they must grow continually or implode — hence they require ever more money to be lent into existence.

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