Category Archive: 6b) Austrian Economics

We Need a New System, Not a New President

Reminder: Our online Zoom conference on open borders kicks off on Monday, September 30, at 7 p.m.-8 p.m. Eastern Time.  Register here. Reminder: I’ll be speaking at the JFK Lancer Conference in Dallas, which is being held on November 22-24 at the Dallas Marriott Downtown. I hope to see you there!

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LA CNN DESTROZA A KAMALA HARRIS Y LA DEJA EN RIDÍCULO

CNN critica a Kamala Harris por divagar en el debate y no responder preguntas clave, mientras menciona planes vagos y contradicciones. 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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Understanding the Basics of Modern Banking

The monetary and banking system plays an incredibly important role in contemporary economies. Knowledge of how this system functions should therefore be spread as widely as possible, yet the education system barely instructs its students about this subject, if indeed it instructs them about it at all. This article aims to contribute to bridging this gap by giving a basic overview of how the system of money creation and banking works today. The...

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Can You Understand the Fed’s Nearly $200 Billion in Losses?

Can you understand how it can be that the Federal Reserve, the world’s greatest and by far most important central bank, has now lost the astounding sum of $193 billion? If not, you are surely not alone. Since September 2022, the Fed has lost money every month. These unprecedented losses continue, and this fall they will in the aggregate pass $200 billion.The Fed has a powerful mystique, which it works hard at cultivating. It intensely wants to be...

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The Fed Hits the Panic Button and Slashes the Fed Funds Rate

The Federal Reserve’s FOMC slashed the target federal funds rate at its meeting this month, reducing the target rate by 50 basis points from 5.5 percent to 5.0 percent. This was the largest cut to the target rate since March of 2020 in the midst of the Covid Panic. This cut comes after fourteen months of the FOMC holding the target rate at 5.5 percent. In late 2022, the FOMC was forced to allow interest rates to rise in response to mounting price...

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The Second Trump Shooter Believed Exactly What the Establishment Media Wanted Him to Believe

On Sunday, for the second time this election cycle, a man was able to get close to Donald Trump with a rifle. The former president was golfing when Secret Service agents spotted a rifle barrel poking out of some bushes just off the course, near a hole Trump would soon play. Agents fired on the suspect, causing him to flee as Trump was rushed off the course. Shortly after, the man was apprehended by police.A scoped rifle, two backpacks, and a video...

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Price Inflation Is Not a “Global Phenomenon”

The Economics Policy Institute (EPI) has promoted a myth that recent price inflation is a “global phenomenon,” is not caused by domestic economic policies. An EPI study claims “that high [price] inflation in the U.S. has not been driven by any unique American policy—not the American Rescue Plan and other generous fiscal relief during the pandemic recession and recovery nor anything else U.S.-centric”. It doesn’t logically follow that something that...

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Does Trump’s Would-Be Assassin Justify Border Controls?

Donald Trump’s alleged would-be assassin, Ryan Routh, is an American citizen. Presumably he was born in the United States. He obviously traveled across state lines to get to Florida. That raises an important question: Should the U.S. Constitution be amended to enable each state to establish border controls around the state to protect the citizenry from violent people from other states?

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MILEI DESTROZA A CRISTINA KIRCHNER POR MENTIR SOBRE LA INFLACIÓN

Milei destroza a Cristina Kirchner por negar que la inflación es un fenómeno monetario. 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 - https://www.amazon.es/Daniel-Lacalle/e/B00P2I78OG ¡Un saludo!...

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Why Interest Rates Are Not the Price of Money

According to mainstream economics, interest rates are the price of money, but the Austrian school says differently. To understand these conflicting ideas, we must understand what prices, money, and interest are.First of all, prices are exchange-ratios between goods and/or services. An apple might be exchanged for a pear or two bananas. In that case we can conclude that the price of an apple, at that moment, is either one pear or two bananas....

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We Need Medical Freedom

In a free society, people have the right to decide what to do with their own bodies. If you want to take something that “orthodox” medicine says you shouldn’t, this decision should be up to you. If the government can ban “dangerous drugs,” why not dangerous ideas too? As the great Ludwig von Mises points out, “Opium and morphine are certainly dangerous, habit-forming drugs. But once the principle is admitted that it is the duty of government to...

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The Customers and Their Enemies

There is an attack on the customer by its anti-market enemies. These enemies dislike market economies and private property and wish to see these institutions destroyed. The enemies want to see a new “king” to the throne—one that dislikes the customer. These enemies want to install a “king” that does not care about what you want to consume, but what they want you to consume.Too often, the caricature of a customer is negative but, in reality, the...

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Where Will All the Money Go?

The Federal Reserve seems to have finally committed to, but has not yet begun its “rate cutting cycle” of lower interest rates, specifically the Federal Funds Rate, or policy rate.This lines up well with what I have been thinking and saying here and elsewhere; the Fed was not likely to cut rates until the fall of 2024 or later.My thinking or guessing was based on the notion that the Fed wanted to remain perceived as tough on inflation for as long...

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Milei Wants More Government Spending—For the Military, of Course

From day one of his presidency, it has been apparent that Argentina’s President Javier Milei wants the Argentinian regime to be a willing member of the US-NATO axis in international affairs. Milei has demonstrated this with a variety of overtures toward the State of Israel and by his repeated meetings with the dictator of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. This all positions Burenos Aires as a reliable supplicant and friend of Washington. Or, as I...

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The Ruling Elites Create an Orwellian Reinterpretation of Human Rights

Ludwig von Mises depicts the aim of revolutionary socialism as: “to clear the ground for building up a new civilization by liquidating the old one.” One of the main strategies in liquidating a civilization involves dismantling its legal and philosophical foundations. This role is fulfilled by activists who embark upon “sabotage and revolution” by subverting the meaning of words: “The socialists have engineered a semantic revolution in converting...

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Privatize Federal Lands

Land in its natural state is not owned by anyone, argued John Locke in Two Treatises of Government, but after land is transformed by an individual’s labor, that person earns a right to own the land and any improvements. In the mid-1800s, the U.S. government put Locke’s property-rights theory into practice with the Homestead Act.

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We Are All Central Planners Now

No matter how one comes out on who won the presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, one thing is crystal clear: Hardly anyone questions whether the president and the federal government should be managing the economy.

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SEGUNDO ATENTADO CONTRA TRUMP Y LOS MEDIOS LO MINIMIZAN

Segundo intento de asesinato a Trump en medio de la creciente polarización en EE. UU. El odio hacia él está en niveles alarmantes. 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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Assessing the Hawkish Stance in Modern Monetary Policy: Implications and Outcomes

In the intricate world of economic management, the term "monetary policy" often surfaces in discussions among policymakers, economists, and financial analysts. As central banks navigate the delicate balance between fostering economic growth and curbing inflation, their stance on monetary policy becomes a focal point of analysis and debate.

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