Austrian Economic Blogs
Adam Smith Institute
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An Australian-style co-payments system for healthcare
Britain's love for the NHS must not blind us from the systematic faults during this crisis. From the difficulty in sourcing and delivering personal protective equipment, to the ill-fated discharge of Covid-positive patients to care homes — something is not right with our supposedly perfect system.Even during normal times, the NHS can struggle. A perpetual complaint is the many days, if not weeks, it can take to get a GP appointment. Many of us...
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The problem with this is what Ms Villiers?
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The Welsh outcome is worse, is it?
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A deep and painful misunderstanding about how economies work
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We’d hope that policy making would be a little better informed than this
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A call for the return of peasant agriculture
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Wednesday’s Organ Seizure Act
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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The Two Big News Cases and Philosophy
Minneapolis police officers killed George Floyd by crushing his neck with a knee while he lay prostrate, helpless, and handcuffed. This is precisely the kind of case When All Else Fails is about. Every “hypothetical” example in the book is in fact a real case, but we had to say “based on” real cases for legal reasons. It would obviously be imprudent to attack the cops in this case, as they will likely shoot back and murder you. But would it be...
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How Government Leaders Violated Their Epistemic Duties During the SARS-CoV-2 Crisis
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What Is Public Choice?
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Likeville Podcast about the Quarantine
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How Did the Great Recession Affect Academic Employment?
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Good Work If You Can Get It: How to Make Your Time as TA Work for You
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Just Published: Good Work If You Can Get It
Cafe Hayek
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Indebted to John Tamny for Sparking this Exchange
My morning began with writing this letter, to John Tamny, pushing back against his criticism of budget-deficit hawks. John then thoughtfully replied, to which I here offered a second response. After sending the last-linked note to John, I followed-up with this note: John, Another, more succinct, response to your hypothetical budget choice occurs to me. The choice that you pose in your Daily Caller essay and as you summarized it in your last...
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Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: “Stimulus, Mackey & Krugman”
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A Reply to John Tamny
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Budget Deficits Do Indeed Matter
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Quotation of the Day…
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If ‘If’ Were a Skiff…
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Financial Markets Are Their Own Justification
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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Cato @ Liberty
Cato @ Libertyhttps://www.cato.org/ The Cato Institute seeks to broaden the parameters of public policy debate to allow consideration of the traditional American principles of limited government, individual liberty, free markets and peace. Toward that goal, the Institute strives to achieve greater involvement of the intelligent, concerned lay public in questions of policy and the proper role of government.enAn Infrastructure Package Is...
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Agriculture Purchase Commitments Under the U.S.-China Trade Deal: The Case of Beef
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New York Shortchanged but NY Politicians No Help
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The Democrats’ Search for a New Foreign Policy
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USMCA Races Across the Finish Line, but Uncertainty Remains
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Raising Wages via Policy Is Hard or Destructive. It’s Time to Focus on Living Costs
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When Debating Base Closure, Look at the Data
Coordination Problem
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Expert Failure in Times of Crisis
I have tried to use this time to stay focused on research, writing and teaching. But, as imagine is common, my attention has been drawn to current affairs and learning how to operate in a virtual classroom while attempting to be an engaging and effective educator. That doesn't mean my normal interests have taken a backseat, it just means my juggling of my time and attention has required a different focus than was the case prior to March...
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Why Doesn’t the Fifth Amendment Apply?
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Hayek’s PhD Students in Freiburg (thank you Stefan Kolev and Adrian Riess)
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Actions prejudicial to the interests of others …
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‘Emergencies’ have always been the pretext …”
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Some GMU History, Karen Vaughn, and Smith/Schumpeter/Stupidity Once More
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Coordination Problems in a Post Pandemic World
David Stockman’s Contra Corner
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Careening Toward The Deep End
With 97% of companies reporting, it appears that aggregate S&P 500 net income posted at a paltry $661 billion annualized rate in Q1. That’s down 50% from the Q4 2019 level of $1.289 trillion, and marks the lowest posting since since Q4 2009 when the US economy was deep in the Great Recession swamp. But […]
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Real Cost Of The Covid-19 Hysteria—-Millions Of Years Of Life
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Japan’s Fiscal “Stimulus” To Hit 40% Of GDP
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Probably Nothin’—-So Yesterday!
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It’s The Nursing Homes, Stupid!
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That Was Easy! Moderna Execs Test Eight, Pump The Bait, Dump The Stock ($89 Million)
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A Trillion Here, A Trillion There—Pretty Soon It’s Real Debt!
EconLog Library
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Classical Liberalism Was Born and Thrived During Pandemics
There Are No Libertarians in an Epidemic,” The Atlantic proudly declared in March. The message, echoed often since then, has been the same: classical liberals (henceforth in this essay simply referred to as “liberals”) have no place in this world. A global pandemic must be met with global action, which can only be coordinated by governments. Individualism and liberalism are unable to solve the problem because of externalities or just plain...
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Libertarianism, not libertarians
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The “Missing Element” of Economics Amidst Crisis
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The Roots of Caution
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Hummel on Whether to Expect Higher Inflation
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Social Anxiety, #MeToo, and Disaster
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Tabellini on Alesina
Jay Taylor Media
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How Would a Socially Balanced Society Respond to a Pandemic?
The state currently enjoys a vastly unbalanced share of the power within a society, such an arrangement is not in any way preordained, and the assumption that it must be betrays a narrowness of vision and a lack of historical knowledge. This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon. Narrated by Millian Quinteros. Original Article: “The Fed Is Doing “Whatever It Takes” to Prop Up the Economy. That’s a Very Bad Thing.“...
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Coronavirus Propaganda Mimics War Propaganda
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Is A Blow-Off Top Setting Up
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Investors Believe There’s No Need For A Safe Haven!
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Daily Digest 5/27 – Grocery Workers In The Dark About COVID Risks, Immunity To Coronaviruses: What Do We Know So Far?
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Grim Milestone: 100k+ US Coronavirus Deaths
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Some Sunshine in the Midst of Gloom from Richard Maybury
Keith Weiner
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When Is a Capital Gain Capital Consumption? Market Report, 25 May
The price of gold dropped a few bucks this week, but the price of silver jumped about half a buck. The drumbeat for the gold bull market is well underway, and it is beginning now for silver. So let’s do a quick update on the supply and demand fundamentals. Here is the graph of the gold basis. The basis has come in quite a bit—but it is still 3.6% annualized. We do not believe that this as a “true” reading. It is a sign of buying of futures,...
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Open Letter to Crispin Odey
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The Federal Counterfeiter
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Monetary Metals Delivers Instant Yield on Gold and Silver
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How to Maintain a Bull Market after Coronavirus, Report 11 May
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Postmodernism Corrupts Everything
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Gold and Silver Markets Start to Normalize, Report 4 May
LewRockwell
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From 9/11 to COVID-19, It’s Been a Perpetual State of Emergency
“The fundamental political question is why do people obey a government. The answer is that they tend to enslave themselves, to let themselves be governed by tyrants. Freedom from servitude comes not from violent action, but from the refusal to serve. Tyrants fall when the people withdraw their support.”—Étienne De La Boétie, The Politics Of Obedience Don’t pity this year’s crop of graduates because this COVID-19 pandemic caused them to miss...
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Covid: Genocide of the Old and Sick?
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Zombies, Pop Culture, and the CDC
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‘Man-Made Warming’ Demolished in 500 Words
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COVID-19 Vaccination: What the Plan Looks Like
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What Freedoms?
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The Expert Model
Mauldin Letter
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Rewinding the Tape
We finished the Virtual Strategic Investment Conference yesterday. I can honestly say it was simply the best conference I have ever attended or been privileged to host. The ability to bring together so many exciting speakers, something schedules would not have allowed if we were holding a physical conference, offered a constant stream of thought-provoking, investment-enhancing, and useful information. I shared some highlights in last...
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Reflection Week
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Five Viral Lessons
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The Figure-It-Out Economy
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Viral Thoughts
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Repricing the World
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Bending the Inflation Curve
Max Keiser
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The Covid-19 Dominoes Fall: The World Is Insolvent
To understand why the financial dominoes toppled by the Covid-19 pandemic lead to global insolvency, let’s start with a household example. The point of this exercise is to distinguish between the market value of assets and net worth, which is what’s left after debts are subtracted from the market value of assets. Let’s say the household has done very well for itself and owns assets worth $1 million: a home, a family business, 401K retirement...
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Goodbye to All That: The Demise of Globalization and Imperial Pretensions
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[KR1513] Keiser Report | Thinking Exponentially
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And Then Came the Lawsuits: Pandemic in a Litigious Society
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What the Fed Can Do: Print and Buy, Buy, Buy
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The Gathering Storm: Could Covid-19 Overwhelm Us in the Months Ahead?
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[KR1511] Keiser Report | Painting Pandemic with Alex Schaefer
Mercatus Center
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Now, More Than Ever, Classical Liberals Must Fight To Uphold the Open Society
This article is part of a series titled "Liberalism After Coronavirus." The purpose of the series is to give different authors an opportunity to explore the future of liberal values through the lens of the pandemic. Whenever classical liberals feel despondent about the present moment, they ought to remember the circumstances surrounding the creation of the Mont Pelerin Society, which helped give birth to the contemporary version of...
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Alp Simsek on a Risk-Centric View of Demand, Recession, and Speculation
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No More State and Local Government Bailouts
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The Way Out of Post-truth
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Established Media and Other Knowledge Institutions Should Be Strengthened, Not Torn Down
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Uncertainty about Future Policy Changes Could Be Harming the US Economy
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Thomas Hoenig on Bank Capitalization and Fed Policy after COVID-19
Mises institute Canada
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Who Wants To Be A Jewi er And Other Essays The Institute For Israel And Jewi udies
2013 Essay Writing Services Tips We closely work with professors and PhD holders in helping in project development. Such writers can persuade their readers through their essays and are able to present the content with which the readers Limestone College ambcrypto.com Gaffney SC http://limestone.edu can relate themselves. You can enjoy any of these services at any time of the day or night because we operate as a 24/7 service provider....
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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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How Would a Socially Balanced Society Respond to a Pandemic?
The state currently enjoys a vastly unbalanced share of the power within a society, such an arrangement is not in any way preordained, and the assumption that it must be betrays a narrowness of vision and a lack of historical knowledge. This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon. Narrated by Millian Quinteros. ...
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Coronavirus Propaganda Mimics War Propaganda
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The Fed Is Doing “Whatever It Takes” to Prop Up the Economy. That’s a Very Bad Thing.
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Why Congressional “Oversight” of the Bureaucracy Is No Such Thing
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COVID Ethics: It’s Immoral to Confine Innocent People Who Might Be a Threat
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To Prevent Problematic Inflation, We Need More Production. Which Means There’s Trouble Ahead.
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Why Didn’t the 1958 and 1918 Pandemics Destroy the Economy? Hint: It’s the Lockdowns
Peter Schiff
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Fed’s Extreme Measures Are a Very Bad Thing
During a recent interview, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said there is “no limit” to what the Fed can do. Indeed, the central bank has pulled out all the stops.But while the actions of the central bank are extreme, we’ve seen them operate out of this playbook before, if not at this level.The Federal Reserve and the US government are rerunning the exact same policies they turned to in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, but on a...
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Over-Leveraged Zombie Companies Threaten Economic Recovery
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A Black Swan With Teeth
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Peter Schiff: The Fed Won’t Get Away With It This Time
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Fun on Friday: At Least the Lockdowns Were Good for Somebody
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The Economy Isn’t Just Dollars: Friday Gold Wrap May 22, 2020
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The Fed Is All Hat and No Cattle
Robert Murphy
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Potpourri
==> Holy crap, look at the turn this interview with Richard Epstein ends up taking. ==> CDC makes really dumb mistake (?) by mixing results of different types of corona tests. ==> Contrary to most online libertarians, I have been beating the pro-mask (for vulnerable people and any non-coerced businesses) drum for a while, so let me acknowledge that my go-to mainstream medical organization, CIDRAP, is now getting iffy about it. I...
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BMS ep 121: Michael Boldin on Hanging Out With 2 Live Crew and Sticking It to the NSA
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BMS ep 120: Babylon Bee Guys Interview Bob on the Fed, Krugman, and Jesus
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Yet Another Non Sequitur in the Coronavirus Debates
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Murphy Twin Spin
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Bob Murphy Show ep. 119: Guido Hulsmann on the French Lockdown, His Biography of Mises, and His Novel Theory of Interest
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Contra Krugman ep. 223: Krugman unwittingly agrees Fed has driven stocks since 2007
Tom Woods
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Ep. 1660 Post-Virus America
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Ep. 1659 What Just Happened at the Libertarian Convention?
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Ep. 1658 Ex-Marxist Ridicules “Wokeness”
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Ep. 1657 These Libertarians Are Carrying on, Virus or No
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Ep. 1656 Shenanigans in the Libertarian Party?
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Ep. 1655 Why Does the Left Favor Lockdowns?
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Ep. 1654 The Two COVID Americas
Wolf Street
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College Enrollment in the Spring Fell for 9th Year in a Row, and Now Comes Covid
Already troubled asset classes, such as student housing and student housing CMBS, face turmoil. By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. The pandemic threw higher education into chaos in the middle of the spring semester. How this will pan out for students, colleges, the whole army of people that works in higher education, the asset class of student housing, student housing mortgages packaged into commercial mortgage backed securities (CMBS),...
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Despite Record-Low Mortgage Rates, New House Prices Drop to Lowest April since 2015, Sales to Lowest April since 2017
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It Starts: The Corporate Mega-Bailout Bonanza in Europe, Germany on Top
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US Air Passenger Traffic over Memorial Day Weekend Down 87%, Amid Signs of Slow Recovery
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Hertz Bankruptcy Threatens to Make Mess of Used-Vehicle Prices with Burst of Pent-Up Supply
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Student Housing, One of the Most Hyped Asset Classes, Runs Out of Students
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Catastrophic Plunge in Jobs & Labor Force in Los Angeles, San Francisco/Silicon Valley Smacks into Housing Bubbles
Zerohedge
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Satellite Images Confirm Rapid Chinese Military Expansion On Disputed Indian Border
A new report in the Asia-based online tech journal Insider Paper cites open source satellite images to confirm the latest widespread reporting on the major Chinese PLA troop build-up underway along disputed Sino-Indian border regions. The report cites the following via a reputable open-source satellite imagery analyst: According to a few satellite images published by a local Indian news publication, the Chinese troops have commenced the...
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JPMorgan Finds Bitcoin Trades At “Intrinstic Value” As Goldman Throws Up All Over Cryptocurrency
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SoftBank’s Vision Fund Considers Slashing 10% Of Workforce
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Rickards: The Coin-Toss Election
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Here Is The Best Advance Indicator If A Second Wave Of Coronavirus Is Coming
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Elon Musk And Grimes Change Their Newborn’s Name From “X Æ A-12” To “X Æ A-Xii”
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NSA’s Social Network Mapping is More Vast, Omnipresent, & Horrifying Than Snowden Revealed