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5-2-24 Powell Holds Pat (and the wealth gap becomes a chasm)

2024-05-02

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Market volatility returns amid earnings season, with McDonald's, KFC, and Starbuck's reporting weak earnings, suggesting tru impact of inflation on consumers, wjho are becoming more price-conscious. Markets perform a pump & dump on Wedesnday, with stock retesting the 20-DMA...and failing. Pelaton earnings disappoint; the Fed holds rates steady; everything is fine, but they're not cutting rates. Discussion of what this means for markets,...

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Grüne von Realität völlig überfordert!

2024-05-02

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Die Grünen wollen nun die Lehrpläne ändern, weil die Jugendliche alle falsch wählen https://link.AktienmitKopf.de/Depot * Bildrechte: By Kasa Fue - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=135671760 📊 Tracke deine Dividenden mit dieser App http://myfinances24.de/mydividends24 📒 Mein Buch! Der Rationale Kapitalist ►►http://amzn.to/2kludNT 🎧JETZT auch als Hörbuch bei Audible ►► https://goo.gl/iWvTRR Haftungsausschluss:...

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Free-Market Profit Comes From Voluntary Exchange, not Exploitation

2024-05-02

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2024-05-02

In our modern political culture, many people claim that profits are the outcome of some individuals exploiting other individuals. Hence, anyone who is seen trying to make profits is regarded as an enemy of society and must be stopped before inflicting damage. According to Henry Hazlitt, “The indignation shown by many people today at the mention of the very word profits indicates how little understanding there is of the vital function that profits...

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Progress from Poverty

2024-05-02

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2024-05-02

How Nations Escape Poverty: Vietnam, Poland, and the Origins of Prosperityby Rainer ZitelmannEncounter Books, 2024; xiii + 212 pp.Rainer Zitelmann has a well-deserved reputation as a defender of the free market; few, if any, can match his immense capacity for amassing relevant facts and using them effectively to support his arguments. This capacity is much in evidence in his latest book, How Nations Escape Poverty. They do so, Zitelmann says, by...

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Hyperinflation and the Destruction of Human Personality

2024-05-02

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2024-05-02

The Link between Economic Calculation and Human PersonalityEconomists and historians have clearly shown that the destruction of the value and function of money by hyperinflation makes economic calculation impossible and leads to economic and social disintegration and widespread poverty. What is not so clearly understood, even by many economists, is that during periods of rapid inflation, the inability to economically calculate undermines the very...

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The Misesian – 2024 V-01 I-02

2024-05-02

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2024-05-02

What is the Mises Institute? The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property...

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Confusion Worse Confounded

2024-05-02

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2024-05-02

Life after Capitalism: The Meaning of Wealth, the Future of the Economy, and the Time Theory of Moneyby George GilderRegnery Gateway, 2023; 212 pp.George Gilder looks at things in an original way, but this is not always a virtue. There is much good sense in Life after Capitalism, but to find it readers will have to wade through a great deal of mumbo jumbo. Let’s start with the good sense.Gilder contends that the contemporary American economy is...

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Javier Milei and Argentina’s Economic Challenge

2024-05-02

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2024-05-02

The Misesian: It seems to many that Javier Milei was elected due to widespread dissatisfaction with the state of the economy in Argentina. Is this a correct assessment?Nicolás Cachanosky: Yes, I believe that is quite accurate. Argentina’s economy has been plagued by increasing inflation since 2007, reaching a world record of 210 percent in 2023. Additionally, the economy has been stagnant since 2011. Poverty rates are also troubling. Consider this:...

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From the Editor March / April 2024

2024-05-02

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2024-05-02

Inflation Is Destroying UsOne of the most damaging shortcomings of modern statistics-based economics is that it all too often removes the individual human person from its analysis. In this setting, “economics” becomes a matter of “macro” aggregates and data factoids like GDP and CPI. This kind of “economics” removes the individual acting person as the central, key variable.Austrian School economics, on the other hand, never loses sight of the...

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Japan Drives Home Message

2024-05-02

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2024-05-02

Overview: The US dollar is mixed, but the spotlight is on the Japanese yen. It appears that with the market challenging Monday's intervention, Japanese officials entered the market shortly after the US equity market closed yesterday, as the Asia Pacific session got underway and sold dollars again. Initial estimates suggest the intervention amount was two-thirds of Monday's. The timing caught the markets wrongfooted. Tokyo markets are closed Friday...

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Is America Headed for Stagflation?

2024-05-02

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2024-05-02

What is the Mises Institute? The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property...

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Ukraine: WARUM verschweigt man diesen Skandal?! (EILT)

2024-05-02

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How House Republicans Outsource Campus Speech Limits to George Soros

2024-05-02

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2024-05-02

This week, the House passed H. R. 6090, a bill sold to the public as an “Antisemitism Awareness Act,” but effectively outsources the definition of actionable Civil Rights Act “antidiscrimination” violations to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. In doing so, the DC uniparty has granted a significant concession on the First Amendment at a time when its freedom of speech is facing a coordinated attack from powerful, globalist...

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TikTok Hypocrisy

2024-05-02

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2024-05-02

President Biden’s campaign will continue using the popular social media site TikTok even though the president supported a provision in the military aid bill he recently signed forcing TikTok’s parent company ByteDance to sell TikTok within 270 days. If ByteDance does not sell TikTok within the required time, TikTok will be banned in the USA. Biden’s continued use of TikTok to reach the approximately 150 million American TikTok users, is not the...

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Fraudulent Logic Guides the UK Smoking Ban

2024-05-02

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2024-05-02

It is the waning days of the Sunak premiership, and the Conservative party still has a stonking majority despite its cataclysmic capitulation in the polls. The government is effectively a lame duck; everyone knows it has no support, yet it will still be around for a few more months. One would think that since the Conservative party still has a large majority in the House of Commons that it would let loose with policy and attempt real reform so that...

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Horror: E-Auto Schock für SIXT!

2024-05-02

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Sixt muss eine große Sonderabschreibung auf seine E-Auto Flotte vornehmen! Meine Depot-Empfehlung https://link.AktienmitKopf.de/Depot * 📊 Tracke deine Dividenden mit dieser App http://myfinances24.de/mydividends24 📒 Mein Buch! Der Rationale Kapitalist ►►http://amzn.to/2kludNT 🎧JETZT auch als Hörbuch bei Audible ►► https://goo.gl/iWvTRR Haftungsausschluss: Anlagen in Wertpapieren und anderen Finanzinstrumenten bergen immer das Risiko des Verlustes...

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Earth Day—A Phony Holiday

2024-05-02

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2024-05-02

April 22 was Earth Day.. Brain-dead “President” Biden issued a proclamation about it. This said:“More than 50 years ago today, some 20 million Americans came together across the country to demand that we prioritize our planet’s well-being. They came from every walk of life and political background, and were united around a common vision: to protect the Earth and our natural treasures for future generations. Their actions that day ignited an...

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Wichtige Morning News mit Oliver Klemm #291

2024-05-02

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Want More Government Revenue? Just Write More Traffic Tickets.

2024-05-02

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2024-05-02

On some level, all of us realize that traffic tickets are seen by local governments as a form of revenue. Supposedly, the intent behind issuance of fines for traffic offenses is to disincentivize behaviors which are deemed to be unsafe, such as driving over the speed limit or not wearing a seatbelt (despite the fact that the latter poses no risk to anyone but the driver). The punishment for this type of offense being almost always a fine, as...

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When Governments Want More Revenue, Police Gin Up the Cash by Writing Traffic Tickets

2024-05-02

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2024-05-02

On some level, all of us realize that traffic tickets are seen by local governments as a form of revenue. Supposedly, the intent behind issuance of fines for traffic offenses is to disincentivize behaviors which are deemed to be unsafe, such as driving over the speed limit or not wearing a seatbelt (despite the fact that the latter poses no risk to anyone but the driver). The punishment for this type of offense being almost always a fine, as...

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