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What If There Are No Solutions?

2023-03-07

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2023-03-07

The unencumbered realist concludes that there are no solutions within a status quo structure that is itself the problem. Realists who question received wisdom and conclude the status quo is untenable are quickly labeled pessimistsbecause the zeitgeist expects a solution is always at hand--preferably a technocratic one that requires zero sacrifice and doesn't upset the status quo apple cart.

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Schweizer Bitcoin Startup Relai schliesst $4.5M Finanzierungsrunde ab

2023-03-07

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2023-03-07

Relai, die Schweizer Bitcoin-App, gibt eine Investitionsrunde in Höhe von 4,5 Millionen US-Dollar bekannt, die von ego death capital angeführt wird. Weitere Investoren sind Timechain, Cabrit Capital und Lightning Ventures. An der Investitionsrunde beteiligten sich auch der Hauptinvestor von Relai, Redalpine, und der Seed-Stage-Investor Fulgur Ventures, die beide erneut investierten. In Juni 2021 hatte Relai deren Series A (2.5Mio CHF) abgeschlossen...

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Gustave de Molinari, First Anarcho-Capitalist

2023-03-06

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2023-03-06

Of all the leading libertarian French economists of the mid- and late nineteenth centuries, the most unusual was the Belgian-born Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912). Born in Liege, the son of a Belgian physician and a baron who had been an officer in the Napoleonic army, Molinari spent most of his life in France, where he became a prolific and indefatigable author and editor in lifelong support of pure laissez-faire, of international peace, and in...

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Zinsen bleiben wohl länger höher – DJE- Marktausblick März 2023 mit Markus Koch & Stefan Breintner

2023-03-06

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Nach einer differenzierten Analyse der Inflation und ihrer Einflussfaktoren rechnen wir mit einer bis auf weiteres anhaltend hohen Kerninflation und Zinsen auf einem Niveau, das über längere Zeit höher bleiben dürfte. Die Sektoren Banken und Versicherungen könnten davon profitieren. Erfahren Sie mehr zur aktuellen Marktsituation im Video-Interview mit DJE-Researchleiter Stefan Breintner und dem Wallstreet-Experten Markus Koch. #zinsen #aktien...

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Altruism vs. Materialism in Market Exchange

2023-03-04

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2023-03-04

[Excerpted from chapter 6 "Antimarket Ethics: A Praxeological Critique" of Power and Market.] One of the most common charges levelled against the free market (even by many of its friends) is that it reflects and encourages unbridled “selfish materialism.” Even if the free market—unhampered capitalism—best furthers man's “material” ends, critics argue, it distracts man from higher ideals. It leads man away from spiritual or intellectual...

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When Military Strategy Ignores Economics: The Sad Story of Rear Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan

2023-03-03

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2023-03-03

It is a great tragedy that many modern military leaders and strategists do not understand economics. If they did, I suspect that there would be a lot less war, a lot less military spending, and a lot less wastefulness. Certainly, there would be greater awareness of the appalling human and economic costs of war in a capitalist age. Ludwig von Mises, the great Austrian economist, understood this point well. In his 1927 book Liberalism, he noted that...

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The Impossibility of Equality

2023-03-02

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2023-03-02

[Excerpt from chapter 7 of Power and Market in Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market, pp. 1308–12.] Probably the most common ethical criticism of the market economy is that it fails to achieve the goal of equality. Equality has been championed on various “economic” grounds, such as minimum social sacrifice or the diminishing marginal utility of money (see the chapter on taxation above). But in recent years economists have recognized that...

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The Nationalization of Credit?

2023-03-01

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2023-03-01

Arthur Travers-Borgstroem, a Finnish writer, published a book entitled Mutualism that deals with ideas of social reform, and culminates in a plea for the nationalization of credit. A German edition appeared in 1923. In 1917, the author had established a foundation under his name in Berne, Switzerland, whose primary objective was the conferring of prizes for writings on the nationalization of credit. The panel of judges consisted of Professors...

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Jeremy Bentham: From Laissez-Faire to Statism

2023-02-26

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2023-02-26

[An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought (1995)]   Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) began as a devoted Smithian but more consistently attached to laissez-faire. During his relatively brief span of interest in economics, he became more and more statist. His intensified statism was merely one aspect of his major — and highly unfortunate — contribution to economics: his consistent philosophical utilitarianism. This contribution, which...

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Making Nonsense from Sense: Debunking Neo-Calvinist Economic Thought

2023-02-25

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2023-02-25

A few years ago I wrote about some of the errors made by economists who try to apply what they believe are Christian principles to both Austrian and neoclassical economic analysis. These economists believe that the standard economic way of thinking is not only fatally flawed but actually immoral, and that an entire new paradigm must be brought to economics. In the mid-1990s, I taught economics as an adjunct at a Christian college near Chattanooga,...

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No, Red State Economies Don’t Depend on a “Gravy Train” from Blue States

2023-02-24

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2023-02-24

When Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene called (again) for "national divorce" this week, a common retort among her detractors on Twitter was to claim that so-called red states are heavily dependent on so-called blue states to pay for pretty much everything. Reporter Molly Knight claimed, for example, that "Red states get their money for roads and cops and schools from blue states. You cut off that gravy train and you e [sic] got a...

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Ludwig von Mises’s Monetary Theory in Light of Modern Monetary Thought

2023-02-23

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2023-02-23

Ludwig von Mises's contributions to the development of the technical methods and apparatus of monetary theory continue to be neglected today, despite the fact that Mises succeeded exactly eight decades ago, while barely out of his twenties, in a task that still admittedly defies the best efforts of the most eminent of modern monetary theorists, viz., integrating monetary and value theory. Such a unified and truly "general theory" is...

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Swiss banks accused of hiding data behind secrecy laws

2023-02-20

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2023-02-20

Swiss banking secrecy used to be the bane of foreign countries trying to catch tax cheats. Now it’s the turn of Swiss journalists and historians to cry foul of laws that can hinder their work.

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Bleiben die Notenbanken ihrer Linie treu? – Podcast mit Dr. Ulrich Kaffarnik

2023-02-19

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Sowohl die #EZB als auch die US-Notenbank Fed mussten sich 2022 der gestiegenen Inflation in den Weg stellen und versuchen auch weiterhin durch Straffung der monetären Politik (#Zinserhöhungen, eingestellte bzw. reduzierte Anleihenkaufprogramme) eine Normalisierung zu erreichen. Womöglich zum Preis einer starken Konjunkturschwächung. Ob bzw. wie lange die Notenbanken ihrer Linie treu bleiben, oder doch zugunsten der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung...

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How Government Spending Hurts the Economy

2023-02-18

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2023-02-18

[In this chapter from Man, Economy, and State, Murray Rothbard explains how government employees consume productive resources, while both taxes and government spending distort the economy.] For years, writers on public finance have been searching for the “neutral tax,” i.e., for that system of taxes which would keep the free market intact. The object of this search is altogether chimerical. For example, economists have often sought uniformity of...

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Wo steht Deutschland? – DJE-plusNews Februar 2023

2023-02-15

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In dem monatlich stattfindendem DJE-plusNews reflektiert Mario Künzel, Referent Investmentstrategie mit Philipp Stumpfegger, Fondsmanager des DJE – Mittelstand & Innovation die Marktgeschehnisse der vergangenen vier Kalenderwochen und gibt Ihnen einen Ausblick auf die kommenden Wochen. HINWEIS: Sehr geehrte YouTube-Besucher, wir möchten uns aufrichtig für die schlechte Videoqualität entschuldigen. Leider hatten wir technische Schwierigkeiten...

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Dr. Jens Ehrhardt im Interview mit Bernd Heller: Wie Anleger nun den Notenbanken trotzen

2023-02-15

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Börsenexperte Dr. Jens Ehrhardt denkt, dass die #Börsen bislang zu positiv ins Jahr gestartet sind. Er erklärt, warum er ab jetzt mit sinkenden #Aktien rechnet und was #Anleger tun sollten. Außerdem verrät er, warum er wegen den #Notenbanken bärisch ist, wie es für die #Zinsen und beim Thema #Künstlicheintelligenz an den Märkten aussieht. 0:00 - Intro 00:42 - Doch kein schwieriges erstes Quartal? 09:54 - Finger weg von Aktien? 16:53 - Wird...

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Dollar and Rates Soften a Little Ahead of US CPI

2023-02-14

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2023-02-14

The focus is on the US CPI report today, but the price action is anything but intuitive. Although the revisions of the basket and methodological changes reinforce expectations for the largest rise in three months, the US dollar continues to trade heavily after rallying last week. The dollar-bloc currencies are underperforming today. And US rates are softer. The US 2- and 10-year yields are 1-2 bp lower.

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The Alien Invasion of America

2023-02-14

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2023-02-14

The aliens are coming! The aliens are coming!  No, I’m not talking about illegal aliens — that is, those immigrants who are trying to enter the United States without official permission. I’m talking about real aliens — the scary types from outer space. You know, the ones that look like ET.

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Switzerland’s ‘cash initiative’ – what’s at stake?

2023-02-13

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2023-02-13

Swiss citizens look set to vote on a people’s initiative to try to ensure their economy never becomes cashless. What do the campaigners behind the idea really want?

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