Austrian Economic Blogs
Adam Smith Institute
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Number Ten’s first Prime Minister
On September 22nd, 1735, Sir Robert Walpole, Britain's first Prime Minister (although the title was not used until much later), moved into Number Ten Downing Street (although it did not have that number then). Its famous door (through which it was not then entered) has become an iconic symbol of Britain's democratic government. That famous door was not added until 40 years later, and was made of oak until after the 1991 IRA mortar attack on...
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Carbon abolition misunderstands the entire climate change problem
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H G Wells – the future seen through fiction
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The actual problem with the Green New Deal
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A Third Way for Education
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A panic started a depression
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George Monbiot falls for a spoof – and is wrong to boot
Bawerk
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Necessity is the Mother of Invention – Retirees Desperate Reach for Yield
Ben Bernanke’s creativity inspired a generation of economists and central bankers. QE, ZIRP and NIRP established a new class of economics that is mathematically sound but practically disastrous. Billions of dollars were transferred from savers to investors to boost the economy, but the wizards of quant forgot that something has to give. In this case, it was the formation of a pension crisis that threatens the golden years of millions of...
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Chinese Philosopher Kings, Losing their Yuan FX Religion?
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How to Invest in the New World Order
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Toward A New World Order, part III
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Toward a New World Order, part II
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Toward a New World Order?
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“Subtle forward guidance”: The marriage between best practice central banking and commodity markets
Bleeding Hearths Libertarians
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Convivencia, In My Dreams It Always Seems
Andalusiawith fields full of grainI have to see youagain and again A Muslim and a Christian playing dueling banjos (13th century). Mediæval Andalusia, or al-Andalus, was the region of Iberia under Muslim rule, its constantly shifting boundaries comprising, at their greatest extent, the entire territory of modern Spain and Portugal (plus a bit more), and at their smallest extent, just the area around Granada. (So, not quite the same territory...
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Molinari Review I.1 Now Free Online, Molinari Review I.2 Heading to Print
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Do We Need Government? No, But You Need This Anthology
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On liberalism and democracy
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On the Latest Brouhaha in Academic Philosophy
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The One Adam Smith Nonproblem
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Epistemic Liberalism and Open Borders
Cafe Hayek
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Quotation of the Day…
… is from page xxv of George Will’s 2019 book, The Conservative Sensibility: The progressives’ indictment is that the [American] Founders’ politics is cramped and uninspiring because it neither aspires to, nor allows for, the integration of the individual’s spiritual needs and yearnings with the individual’s political identity and activities. To this indictment the American conservative’s proper response is a cheerful, proud plea of guilty....
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Still More On So-called “Price-gouging”
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Some Links
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Quotation of the Day…
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Bonus Quotation of the Day…
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Identifying What Is Really Arbitrary
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More Globalization (Please!)
Carpe Diem
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50 years of failed doomsday, eco-pocalyptic predictions; the so-called ‘experts’ are 0-41 – Publications – AEI
AEI 50 years of failed doomsday, eco-pocalyptic predictions; the so-called ‘experts’ are 0-41 This week Myron Ebell (director of the Center for Energy and Environment at the Competitive Enterprise Institute) and Steven J. Milloy published a post on the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) blog titled “Wrong Again: 50 Years of Failed Eco-pocalyptic Predictions:” Modern doomsayers have been predicting climate and environmental disaster since...
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Quotation of the day on the ‘High Church of Environmentalism’…… – Publications – AEI
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Animated chart of the day: Public school enrollment, staff, and inflation-adjusted cost per pupil, 1970 to 2016 – Publications – AEI
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Videos of the day: Index funds, renewable portfolio standards and eco-anxiety – Publications – AEI
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Tuesday afternoon links – Publications – AEI
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Quotation of the day on the inconsistency of treating children as both role models and incompetent snowflakes….. – Publications – AEI
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A huge gender disparity for loss of life trying to save others – Publications – AEI
Cato Liberty
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Interventionists Evade Responsibility for Their Policy Disasters
As I point out in a new National Interest Online article, a multi-sided struggle for power in Libya continues to fester more than eight years after the United States led an air war to help rebels oust longtime dictator Muammar Qaddafi. Libya joins Iraq and Syria as a classic example of the failed U.S. regime-change strategy. Fighting between Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar’s so-called Libyan National Army (LNA) and the even more misnamed...
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“We Give Qualified Immunity to Just About Everybody”
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How About Retroceding Washington, D.C. to Maryland?
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R.I.P. Earl Ravenal (1931-2019)
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Federal Protection of Cave Spiders Is Driving Property Owners Up the Wall
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Justice Department Responds in Steel Tariffs Case
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Bringing Drug Use Out of the Shadows Reduces Harm to the Community as Well as to Users
Coordination Problem
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Two Elementary Ideas for Basic Economic Reasoning
This term I am teaching my HIstory of Price Theory course, a course I enjoy teaching tremendously. But two lessons emerge from both the classical economist and the early neoclassical economists that I think would ensure clear thinking. Ironically, this might actually be exemplified in the writings of Frank Knight on value and price theory, and thus in his price theory. And, those two lessons can be simply stated as: (1) solve for the...
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A Simple Attempt to Clear Up Some Confusions About the “Austrian” Perspective and Economic SCIENCE
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The Power and Prestige of Economics — Time for a Reboot in Thinking, Not a Replacement
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Mises on Liberalism, Socialism and Democracy
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Hayek Was Crystal Clear — the true liberal embraces change even when it is uncomfortable
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CEVRO Institute PPE program
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The Role of the Economist in a Free Society
David Stockman’s Contra Corner
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Here They Go Again! Fannie/Freddie Are Inherent Wards Of Uncle Sam—He Should Keep The Profits Or, Better, Abolish These Government “Bureaus”,
........are expected to start keeping their earnings as early as this week, pausing a yearslong arrangement in which they handed nearly all of their profits to the Treasury Department. The move, in an expected agreement between the Trump administration and their federal regulator, would be an initial major step in allowing the companies to build up capital so they can operate as private companies again....
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Bastiat On “What Is Government?”
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Be Very Afraid: $1.4 Trillion Of Excess Bank Reserves And 10% Repo Don’t Compute
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Behind The Thin Fin Line—The Bear Is Lurking
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Prepare To Get Burned….On The Hot Stove Of Falsified Economics
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Trump, FDR, Maximum Pressure, Economic War, Hot War
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How The Deep State Is Dragging Trump Into War With Iran
EconLog Library
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Stoller’s Hatchet Job on Aaron Director
Aaron Director was one of the founders of law and economics: the application of economic reasoning to understand the effects of law and, in some cases, to recommend particular laws. He wrote very little but his influence was immense. Director was best friends with George Stigler, brother of Rose Director Friedman, and brother-in-law of Milton Friedman. I interviewed him in the late 1990s and Milton Friedman showed some of that interview at...
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The Great Chinese Firewall
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Cass Sunstein’s Critique of Samantha Power
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Bubble mutual funds
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Free to Trade with China (and Anyone Else): A Response to Michael Brendan Dougherty
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On Steve Davies’s new book
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Germany’s real business cycle
Jay Taylor Media
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Government
[Excerpt from chapter 3 of the Bastiat Collection.] I wish someone would offer a prize—not of a hundred francs, but of a million, with crowns, medals and ribbons—for a good, simple and intelligible definition of the word “Government.”1 What an immense service it would confer on society! The Government! What is it? Where is it? what does it do? what ought it to do? All we know is, that it is a mysterious personage; and assuredly, it is the most...
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Automation and the Crisis of Work
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Technological Innovation Is Nothing to Fear
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Daily Digest 9/21 – Young People Take To The Streets For Climate, Nature ‘Unraveling’ as N. America Loses 3B Birds Since 1970
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How Central Banks Promote Money-Creation by Private Banks
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Gold among Negative-Yielding Bonds
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Pierre Lassonde Says Gold Could Hit $25,000 in 30 Years
Keith Weiner
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Why Are People Now Selling Their Silver? Report 15 Sep
This week, the prices of the metals fell further, with gold -$18 and silver -$0.73. On May 28, the price of silver hit its nadir, of $14.30. From the last three days of May through Sep 4, the price rose to $19.65. This was a gain of $5.35, or +37%. Congratulations to everyone who bought silver on May 28 and who sold it on Sep 4. To those who believe gold and silver are money (as we do) the rising price of silver may seem right as rain. Why...
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How Is Negative Interest Possible? Report 8 Sep
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Asset Inflation vs. Consumer Goods Inflation, Report 1 Sep
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Directive 10-289, Report 25 Aug
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Deflation Is Everywhere—If You Know Where to Look, Report 18 Aug
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The Economic Singularity, Report 11 Aug
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Distortion Due to Minimum Wage Law
LewRockwell
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Climate Change? Eat, Drink, & Be Merry!
At the end of October 2018, the United Nations — and later in November, the U.S. Government — issued reports buttressing previous warnings about climate change in the next 100 years, assuming warming rather than cooling, blaming it mostly on CO² emissions, and particularly including 100-year economic forecasts of the anticipated damage. Austrian Economists — and even honest non-Austrians — know better. As non-Austrian John Kenneth Galbraith...
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A Love of Place
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Who Needs John Bolton?
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Houthi Rebels Overturned the Chessboard
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Now, Mr. President, With Respect, Cut the Crap and Get Out of Afghanistan
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Saudi Arabia Executes 134 People Including Six Kids
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Switzerland Sick of and Sick From 5G
Mauldin Letter
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That Time Keynes Had a Point
“Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.” ―John Maynard Keynes I begin with this Keynes quote because, while true, it doesn’t go far enough. The problem isn’t simply defunct economists or “scribblers of a few...
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Black Hole Investing
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Dalio’s Analogue and Mauldin’s Commentary
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Volatile Year Coming
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Digging a Hole to China
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What I Learned at Camp Kotok
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Larry Kotlikoff on The Big Con
Max Keiser
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[KR1439] Keiser Report: Mad Cows and Mad Men
In this episode of the Keiser Report from Riga, Latvia, Max and Stacy look at the mad ideas being floated by the mad men of the elite to address the problems caused fundamentally because of mad money-printing economics. From Bill Gates’ ‘chemical cloud’ to a Swedish economist’s idea of resorting to cannibalism, the ‘solutions’ for climate change they offer have some gruesome side effects. They also discuss the mad idea and dangerous...
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The New Orthodoxy: Blasphemy, Heresy and the New Inquisition
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[KR1437] Keiser Report: From GIABO to Naked Swindle to Cantillon Effect
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Markets That Live by the Fed, Die by the Fed
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The Black Swan Is a Drone
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How Deep Is the Rot in America’s Institutions?
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VIDEO: Rick Rule, Chris Martenson & Brien Lundin On Investing In Gold Miners
Mercatus Center
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IoT Forensics, Window Seat Showdowns, and Ranking Public Transportation
A Brutal Murder, a Wearable Witness, and an Unlikely Suspect Lauren Smiley | WIRED | Tweeted by Jennifer Huddleston In the age of the Internet of Things, smartwatches and home security cameras can make or break a murder case, but how reliable is the information they provide? AP Analysis: US-UK Trade Deal Won’t Be so Easy Post-Brexit Paul Wiseman | The Associated Press | Tweeted by Christine McDaniel Some officials in the Trump administration...
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More Aid to Education Will Not Make It More Affordable
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Soumaya Keynes Says Trump Trade Tweets Have Unleashed "Bigger Uncertainty" Beyond Tariffs
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Soumaya Keynes Says Trump Trade Tweets Have Unleashed "Bigger Uncertainty" Beyond Tariffs
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The Need for Humility in Policymaking
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Soumaya Keynes on Trade, Dollar Dominance, and the Highlights of Jackson Hole
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New Research on Paying Interest on Bank Reserves and Foreign Aid
Mises institute Canada
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Who Wants To Be A Jewi er And Other Essays The Institute For Israel And Jewi udies
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Defencemen Logan Stanley and Tucker Poolman will get their first flavor
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the Caps return household to participate in their very last two games
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Ottawa Senatorshave now secured an Eastern Conference berth within the 2017 Stanley Cup playoffs
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the Sabres just take on Arizona within the desert
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Red Wings have named residence has experienced its individual special aura
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The Predators once-a-year Fathers Journey begins tonight in Philadelphia
Mises Institute USA
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Government
[Excerpt from chapter 3 of the Bastiat Collection.] I wish someone would offer a prize—not of a hundred francs, but of a million, with crowns, medals and ribbons—for a good, simple and intelligible definition of the word “Government.”1 What an immense service it would confer on society! The Government! What is it? Where is it? ...
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Technological Innovation Is Nothing to Fear
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How Central Banks Promote Money-Creation by Private Banks
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Restitution-Based Criminal Justice in Japan
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Bringing the Truth
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The False Promise of Canada’s Health Care System
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Why Housing Is More Affordable In Tokyo
Peter Schiff
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Fun on Friday: My Potty Got Jacked!
My potty got jacked.There are four words you’ll probably never say. Who steals toilets, right?But your problem is you don’t have a solid gold toilet. If you did, it might indeed get jacked. In fact, burglars snatched a 18-karat gold potty valued at about $6 million out of Blenheim Palace in England. I’ve actually written about this toilet before. It was famously offered to President Donald Trump when the White House requested to borrow van...
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Fed Mechanizations: SchiffGold Friday Gold Wrap Sept. 20, 2019
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Peter Schiff: Whatever the Fed Is Going to Do Will Stink to High Heaven
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Peter Schiff: The Next Crash Could Bring Down the Fiat Money System
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Peter Schiff: Why the Fed Won’t Be Able to Rescue the Economy the Next Time Around
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Fed Runs Repo Operations; Is It Baby-Stepping Toward QE?
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Peter Schiff: A Very Violent Move in the Bond Market
Robert Murphy
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Bob Dissects Chappelle’s Special, “Sticks & Stones”
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I’m Pretty Sure I LOL’d
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I Spend 2 Hours Talking About the Austrian School
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BMS Episode 59
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Contra Krugman Twin Spin
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Carlos Explains His Absence
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Murphy Twin Spin
Tom Woods
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Ep. 1497 Google Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom
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Ep. 1496 “I Fooled Penn and Teller”
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Ep. 1495 Space Exploration and the Private Sector
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Ep. 1494 The CIA and Mind Control
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Ep. 1493 Peter Schiff on What to Do With Your Money, and More
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Ep. 1492 Lew and I Watched the Debate So You Didn’t Have To
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Ep. 1491 How This Metal Vocalist Became a Libertarian (Hint: Ron Paul is Involved)
Wolf Street
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Asset Class of Vintage Cars Drops into Bear Market, Down by More than in 2008/2009
“Expert sentiment is at its lowest point since October 2010, largely due to market observers’ reactions to the Monterey auctions.” The asset class of beautiful machines, which had already been struggling mightily, got whacked by the events in Monterey, California, last month. “Whether it’s threat of recession, broad economic volatility or too many cars crammed into too few hours, there’s no denying this year’s Monterey Auction Week results...
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Use of “Hidden Debt Loophole” Spreads Among Australian Corporations
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Fed Admits Failure of ‘Plan A’ to Control Money Market Rates, Shifts Back to Repos (which was ‘Plan A’ till 2008)
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Unstoppable Negative Yields Suddenly Become Stoppable
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Canada’s Most Splendid Housing Bubbles, August Update: Vancouver Spirals Lower
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Interest Rate Derivatives Trading Explodes to $6.5 Trillion/Day
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Fed’s Powell: No Negative Interest Rates at Next Crisis
Zerohedge
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Insane And Ill-Advised: Trump’s Future War With Iran, Part 2
Authored by US Army Major (ret.) Danny Sjursen via The Future of Freedom Foundation, Read Part 1 here... Iran is an enigma to most American policymakers. Iranian foreign and defense policies, according to Kenneth Katzman, are “products of overlapping, and sometimes contradictory, motivations.” The key question is whether Iran is an expansionist, theocratic, Shia-chauvinist state, or a rational, defensive bulwark with only limited regional...
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“What Were You Like At 17?”: Bill Maher Defends Brett Kavanaugh In Fiery Exchange With Guest
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South Korean Exports Collapse 21% – Biggest Drop In A Decade
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Schiff: Market Forces Are Beginning To Overwhelm The Fed’s Defenses
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It’s Official: Bank of America Now Calls What Is Coming “QE4”
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Strange Magnetic Pulses Discovered On Mars Leave Scientists Baffled
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Secret FBI Subpoenas For Personal Data Go Far Beyond Previously Known