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Is Secondhand Smoke Bad, or Is It a Public Good? It’s Complicated

2023-08-12

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2023-08-12

The usual answer is that secondhand smoke is bad. But if value is subjective, perhaps secondhand smoke also can be seen as a public good. Original Article: "Is Secondhand Smoke Bad, or Is It a Public Good? It’s Complicated"

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Fakten oder Unwahrheiten? #shorts

2023-08-12

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Massiver Eklat zwischen AfD und Haldenwang im Bundestag!

2023-08-12

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Anfang Juli kam es zum Treffen zwischen Haldenwang und einigen AFD Bundestagsabgeordneten. Es ging heftig hin und her wie einige Beteiligte berichteten! 💰 Meine Aktiendepot Empfehlung mit bis zu 3,6 % für Einlagen in EUR Bis zu 5,8 % für Einlagen in USD https://link.aktienmitkopf.de/Depot * Bildrechte:By Olaf Kosinsky - Propri ovre, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=75181202 DPA 👉🏽5 Euro Startbonus bei Bondora ►►...

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How People Determine the Value of a Good

2023-08-12

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2023-08-12

In contrast to the imaginary way that mainstream economists present value, Austrian economists properly use ordinal rankings to determine value. Original Article: "How People Determine the Value of a Good"

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The Taxpayers Bailed Out Yellow Trucking. It Went Bankrupt Anyway.

2023-08-12

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2023-08-12

After ninety-nine years in business, Yellow, one of the nation’s biggest trucking companies, shut down. The company has more than twelve thousand trucks and employed thirty thousand, with twenty-two thousand of those jobs held by Teamsters. If you are a taxpayer, you know all this, your government being a 29.6 percent shareholder of Yellow and all. The Trump administration’s Coronavirus, Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act dished out...

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Week Ahead: Anniversary of the End of Bretton Woods Sees Resilient Dollar and Firmer US Rates: Can it Persist?

2023-08-12

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2023-08-12

Tuesday marks the 52nd anniversary of the end of Bretton Woods currency arrangement, which pegged the dollar to gold and other currencies to the dollar. Some economists have tried framing their views in terms of Bretton Woods II and there have even been proponents of Bretton Woods III, but these are informal arrangements at best, no reciprocity, or mutual obligations. The point of the matter is that the end of Bretton Woods ushered in the modern...

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Update on Toilet Paper

2023-08-12

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2023-08-12

In this episode, Mark updates his early March 2023 episode (Mises.org/Minor11) on the high price of toilet paper. He shows how economic changes, so far, in 2023 seem to have vindicated his forecast of lower toilet paper and paper towel prices. It also demonstrates how the market process works on a minor scale, even when large determinants like Amazon, Covid, and the US home construction industry get tangled up with politicians and bureaucrats....

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The Bombing of Hiroshima: The Crime and the Cover-Up

2023-08-12

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2023-08-12

How do you cover up an atomic bomb? The same way you cover up anything else: you don’t allow people to know what really happened. Of course, the magnitude and power of a mushroom cloud are plainly unmistakable. However, the effects of that bomb can be concealed and obfuscated from the general population. For over a year after the nuclear destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the full extent of the bomb’s killing power was kept secret from the...

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AI Lacks the Entrepreneurial Intelligence to Plan an Economy

2023-08-12

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2023-08-12

Can computers plan a socialist economy? The idea is not new; it first appeared in the debate over economic calculation, which began in 1920 with Ludwig von Mises’s first article on the topic and continued until 1949. This was a time when computers had recently emerged. Computers were not widespread, but their possibilities were evident. Oskar Lange considered the market economy to be a “crude and soon to be obsolete computing machine.” More...

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WAHNSINN! Claudia Roth will Faktenchecker “unabhängig” bezahlen 🤡

2023-08-12

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Die Verbindungen zwischen Politik, insbesondere Regierung und öffentlich Rechtlichen Medien wird immer offensichtlicher! Und nun will Claudia Roth auch noch "qualitäts-Journalismus" bezahlen!! 💰 Meine Aktiendepot Empfehlung mit bis zu 3,6 % für Einlagen in EUR Bis zu 5,8 % für Einlagen in USD https://link.aktienmitkopf.de/Depot * Bildrechte: By © Raimond Spekking / CC BY-SA 4.0 (via Wikimedia Commons), CC BY-SA 4.0,...

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U.S. Mint Bureaucrats Undermine the Once-Great American Eagle Brand

2023-08-11

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🔔 SUBSCRIBE TO MONEY METALS EXCHANGE ON YOUTUBE ➤ http://bit.ly/mmx-youtube The upshot of soft market conditions for gold and silver is favorable buying opportunities for bargain hunters. Not only are spot prices down, but so are premiums on popular bullion products available through Money Metals. Read the Full Transcript Here:...

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The rewards of understanding & accepting reality as it is

2023-08-11

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#truth is the foundation for producing good #outcomes

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Cracked-Up Slobodian

2023-08-11

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2023-08-11

Professor Quinn Slobodian believes that free markets must lead to tyrannical worker exploitation, and socialism is the only solution. In truth, market competition is the answer.  Original Article: "Cracked-Up Slobodian"

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France’s Unrest Has Deep Roots. Proposed Immigration Restrictions Will Make Things Worse

2023-08-11

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2023-08-11

Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s frescoes adorning the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena, Italy, tell a timeless tale of governance. They portray a city flourishing under just laws and crumbling under misrule. The latter side of this allegory rings alarmingly relevant today as the recent riots in France paint a destructive urban tableau, mirroring the narrative of government failure. The situation has deteriorated so drastically that widespread use of force is now...

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22. August 2023 – Der Tag, der alles verändern kann, Goldgedeckte Handelswährung, BRICS

2023-08-11

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The Mirage of “Equal Pay” in Sports

2023-08-11

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2023-08-11

Ryan McMaken joins Bob to discuss the recent US Women's World Cup elimination, and to dispel the myth that markets are discriminatory. After defending Megan Rapinoe's failed penalty kick, they dismantle her outspoken views on "equal pay" in sports, and examine the left's claim that law is required to fix prejudice in the labor market. The Mirage of "Equal Pay" in Sports Video of The Mirage of...

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Will the US Respond to China? – John MacGregor

2023-08-11

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In this episode of the Full Disclosure podcast, host John MacGregor explores a range of thought-provoking subjects that have been causing concern. First, MacGregor shares his thoughts on the importance of studying societal issues, and he raises questions about the objectives and intentions of specific courses, sparking a broader conversation about the role of education in addressing global matters. MacGregor then turns his attention to a...

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“National Greatness” Is Not the Appropriate Response to “Wokeism”

2023-08-11

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2023-08-11

Up from Conservatism: Revitalizing the Right after a Generation of DecayEdited by Arthur MilikhEncounter Books, 2023; 328 pp. The contributors to Up from Conservatism, most of whom are associated with the Claremont Institute, think that “movement” conservatism has failed, in large part through acceptance of the premises of the Left. The Right needs to carry the battle to the enemy, aiming at its destruction and its replacement by a sounder regime....

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57 Mio. € Umsatz mit Socken: Wie geht E-Commerce richtig, Johannes Kliesch?

2023-08-11

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Mit Socken über Amazon zum Multimillionär: Wie geht das? Depot-Empfehlungen 👉 https://www.finanztip.de/wertpapierdepot/ ETF-Empfehlungen 👉 https://www.finanztip.de/indexfonds-etf/ 🧡 Jetzt Finanztip Unterstützer werden: https://www.finanztip.de/unterstuetzer-youtube/ Johannes Kliesch ist Co-Gründer von Snocks. Angefangen mit 4.000€ Startkapital hat er zunächst vor allem mit Socken über Amazon das Unternehmen zu 57 Mio. € Umsatz pro Jahr geführt....

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Bank of America! #shorts

2023-08-11

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