Austrian Economic Blogs
Adam Smith Institute
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An interesting question concerning Boohoo and the Leicester factories
This might sound a little off the wall but we should take our economic illumination where we can find it. There have been claims of subcontracting factories in Leicester paying less than minimum wage. As we’ve already noted we think this is more about workers without work permits than anything else. But The Observer asks an interesting question:Rival retailers ask a good question: how is it possible to make a profit from £8 dresses in the...
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Britain still hasn’t paid off the slavery compensation debt
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The market has spoken – Open the UK to American foods
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We don’t believe this for a moment and yet…..
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Fast fashion and sumptuary laws
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The Rich in Public Opinion: What We Think When We Think About Wealth
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Not everything is about sex – nor even gender
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 End
Back in 2011, a group of academic philosophers started a blog called “Bleeding Heart Libertarians.” The idea behind that blog was simple, but also somewhat vague in terms of its specifics: that you could be a libertarian who favored free markets and limited governments, and still care about the kind of things people on the left refer to as “social justice” – relieving poverty, racial and sexual equality, immigrant rights, LBGTQ rights, and so...
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Anti-Competition as the Incel Mentality
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The AAAS Agrees with Magness and Me
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An Excerpt from *When All Else Fails*
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Is It Time for Private Punishment?
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The Two Big News Cases and Philosophy
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How Government Leaders Violated Their Epistemic Duties During the SARS-CoV-2 Crisis
Cafe Hayek
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Ownership and the Burden of Persuasion
Here’s a letter to a Café Hayek patron who wishes to remain anonymous: Mr. J____: Thanks for your e-mail. In response to my argument that “Individuals should be allowed to spend and invest their incomes in whatever peaceful ways they choose. The burden of persuasion that must be met to justify the use of coercion to override these choices is very heavy,” you ask: Where does this view come from? And where does the high burden of persuasion...
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Why Trust These People?
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Unmasking Irrationality
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Some Links
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Quotation of the Day…
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Spending Is Pointless Without Production
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Bonus Quotation of the Day…
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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Rebutting the IACP’s Spurious Defense of Qualified Immunity
The Cato Institute has been engaged in a strategic campaign to abolish qualified immunity for over two years now. In all that time, the closest I’ve seen to an actual defense of the doctrine is a 2018 law review article by Professors Aaron Nielson and Chris Walker called A Qualified Defense of Qualified Immununity. As the title would suggest, this is hardly a robust defense, but rather a limited, measured argument that the legal case against...
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The Jones Act at 100: Time to Make This Protectionist Law History
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Pandemic Makes Municipal Stadiums an Even Worse Deal for Taxpayers
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Federal Aid for State‐Local Police
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The Facts About the L-1 Visa Program
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Reflections on “Climate Change and National Security: Balancing the Costs and Benefits”
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Let Investors Decide, Part II
Coordination Problem
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Resources for Teachers in Comparative Economic Systems
|Peter Boettke| I have read with great benefit the books of Orlando Figes. He now has a website with resources for teachers. Recommend.
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Kari Polanyi on her father Karl Polanyi
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The Problem of Policing and Local Public Economics
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Ostroms: The Movie
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Expert Failure in Times of Crisis
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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)
David Stockman’s Contra Corner
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The Clown Cars Are Fully Loaded, Part 1
Wall Street, Washington and the MSM are facing an acute shortage. What we means is that all available clown cars have been occupied and the waiting cue is at record lengths! How else do you describe the insanity all about, which we will address in the next several installments. But for a starter, consider Wall […]
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Behind The Great Covid Deception: Big Pharma Drooling Over Expensive Treatments Costing Hundreds Of Billions
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Forget The Democrats—They’ve Abandoned Democracy
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Vote (By Mail) Early And Often: The Tail Of A Dead Cat Named Cody
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Two Centuries of Debt in 30 Days: For Whom? For What?
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Wake Up, Donald, You Ain’t No Tom Paine
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Wake Up, Donald, You Ain’t No Tom Paine
EconLog Library
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Kuznicki on Liberty
We can attempt to extrapolate from what we know, but that is very difficult. When we attempt to predict advances that have not yet been made, like the warp drive, that invites disaster. But it’s very tempting to try to do so. The inability of the mind to foresee its own advance is one of the reasons the future will always surprise us. The other reason is that not all tastes, values, and desires of individual human beings are accessible even to...
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Escaping Paternalism: Book Club Schedule
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Firing and the Left
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The Lockdowns Definitely Suppressed Economic Activity
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Could it have been much worse?
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Progressivism goes off the rails
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Bob Murphy on How Identity Politics Hurts Everyone
Jay Taylor Media
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It’s Silver’s Turn To Shine Bright!
A Pfennig For Your Thoughts July 13, 2020 *Currencies end the week on a strong note… * And Start the week on an even stronger note! Good Day… And a Marvelous Monday to you! What an absolute beauty of a day yesterday, here where I spend my summers and falls… The humidity dropped like a rock, and so did the temperature, and there was a nice pleasant breeze blowing all day! I was in heaven sitting outside… Well, I hosted another driveway happy...
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Precious Metals Were the Winners in H1 2020… And It Wasn’t Even Close
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Entrepreneurship
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How the State Destroys Families
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Daily Digest 7/13 – Rent Crisis Is ‘Powder Keg,’ Official Covid-19 Statistics Miss Something Critical
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Mises University is Happening Now!
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Heading Rapidly Toward Hyperinflation
Keith Weiner
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The Simon-Ehrlich Bet Did Not Settle the Question
The bet between Julian Simon and Paul Ehrlich shows a fatal flaw in how most people think about inflation. Are you familiar with the bet? Ehrlich wrote a book titled The Population Bomb. He held a pessimistic view of the future, in which population growth would outstrip resources (essentially the same as Thomas Malthus). Simon disagreed. So in 1980, they made a famous bet. Ehrlich thought that the real cost of commodities would be higher in 10...
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Defaults Are Coming, Market Report, 22 June
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Growing Dollar Demand, Silver Weirdness, Market Report, 15 June
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Monetary Metals Provides Gold Loan to Sector Resources
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When Is a Capital Gain Capital Consumption? Market Report, 25 May
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Open Letter to Crispin Odey
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The Federal Counterfeiter
LewRockwell
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Rent Control, Jobs, Marriage
Demand curves slope in a downward direction. This means that the higher the price, the less of an item, or good, or service, will be sought. The more road blocks, hurdles, thumb tacks, placed in the way of any given action, the less likely it will occur. Economists do not agree on many things, but on this insight there will be nary a dismal scientist who will not acquiesce. Yet, there are several public policies in place that are incompatible...
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The Sinking Titanic’s Great Pumps Finally Fail
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What the Supreme Court Got Right In Its Indian Tribe Ruling
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Reflections
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The New Deal Is a Bad Old Deal
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How To Fix the COVID-19 Crisis in 30 Days
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It Takes 3 Weeks To Escape Illinois
Mauldin Letter
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Stumble-Through Jobs Market
Work has always been a fact of life. Paycheck-producing jobs are actually a recent development. Until the Industrial Revolution, most people lived on subsistence agriculture, sustaining themselves with whatever they could produce or working as slaves/serfs. The practice of producing something you wouldn’t personally use had been around but reached a new stage with the Industrial Revolution. It wasn’t without controversy, either. Karl...
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The Blacker Swan
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A Recession Like No Other
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Where We Go from Here
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The Stumble-Through Economy
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COVID-19: A Data-Driven Analysis
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Economics in Orbit
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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Commerce Should Improve the Objection Process for the Section 232 Tariff Exclusion Requests
I write today in response to the request by the Bureau of Industry and Security of the US Department of Commerce for public comment regarding the exclusion process for Section 232 steel and aluminum import tariffs and quotas. I appreciate the opportunity to submit this public comment on how to improve the tariff exclusion process. The Mercatus Center at George Mason University is dedicated to bridging the gap between academic ideas and...
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The Great Enrichment
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The Politics of Redevelopment Planning in Tysons and Outcomes 10 Years Later
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Jens Van’t Klooster on ECB Bond Purchasing and the Myth of Central Bank Neutrality
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A Fed for Next Time: Ideas for a Crisis‐Ready Central Bank
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A Fed for Next Time: Ideas for a Crisis‐Ready Central Bank: Panel 4 Preserving Monetary Autonomy
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Unforced Errors
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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Banking
Download the slides from this lecture at Mises.org/MU20_PPT_06. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 13 July 2020.
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Money
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US Trade Is Crippled by the American Government, Not the Chinese
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The Division of Labor and Social Order
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Entrepreneurship
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How the State Destroys Families
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Mises University is Happening Now!
Peter Schiff
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Bullish Silver Fundamentals: Investment Demand Up 10% in First Half of 2020
The price of silver has surged along with gold over the last few weeks and has pushed above $19 an ounce. But the white metal continues to lag behind gold with the silver-gold ratio at over 94-1. This is a historically wide spread and it is telling us that silver remains way undervalued. At some point, you would expect that ratio to close, meaning silver has a long way to run up.Fundamentals in the silver market also look bullish for the white...
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Peter Schiff: The Chart for Gold Looks Fantastic
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Fun on Friday: Who Is That Masked Man?
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Gold Surges Past $1,800: SchiffGold Friday Gold Wrap Podcast July 10
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Gold ETFs Chart Seventh Straight Month of Inflows
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$1,800 Gold!
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Bailout Nation: Moral Hazard and Low Economic Growth
Robert Murphy
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BMS ep 129: Identity Politics Is Hurting Young People–of All Colors
Audio here.
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BMS ep 128: Narration of My MMT Review
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BMS ep 127: Michael Hardin on Sacrifice vs. the Gospel of Peace
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BMS ep. 126: Keith Knight Interviews Me on Krugman’s New Book
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Potpourri
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Jordan Peterson Asked About the Resurrection
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MMT Disputes
Tom Woods
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Ep. 1661 The Lockdowns and Those Millions of Lives
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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?
Wolf Street
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No, Homes Did Not Sell Like Hotcakes: “Pending Home Sales” Plunged 34% in April, a Preview of “Closed Sales” in May
The housing market faces ferocious headwinds. By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. Pending sales of existing homes of all types in April – contracts on houses, condos, etc., that were signed in April but that haven’t closed yet – collapsed by 33.8% from April last year, after having plunged 16.3% year-over-year in March, with the index plunging to 69, according to the National Association of Realtors today. An index value of 100 represents the...
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Week 10 of the U.S. Labor Market Collapse: Still Getting Worse at Gut-Wrenching Pace, But Signs of Bottom Appear
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Commercial Real Estate in the Plague Year: The Office Tower Landscape is About to Be Remade
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4th-Largest US Rental Car Company, Advantage, Files for Bankruptcy: 3rd Time in Decade, Hertz & Private Equity Written All Over It
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College Enrollment in the Spring Fell for 9th Year in a Row, and Now Comes Covid
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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
Zerohedge
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China’s Stealth Jet With Thrust Vectors Enters Mass Production
A heavily modified Chengdu J-20 stealth fighter jet formally entered mass production this month, according to a new report via South China Morning Post (SCMP), who spoke with military sources about the development surrounding the fifth-generation fighter jet with upgraded Russian engines. Chengdu J-20 stealth fighter jet China held a ceremony last week, unveiling the modified J-20B stealth fighter jet. The source said, "production of...
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What Greta Thunberg Forgets About Climate Change
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US Recovery Stalls As Pandemic ‘Second Wave’ Threatens To Unleash Double-Dip Recession
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What Is The Real Purpose Of The Lockdowns?
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Before You Buy Tonight’s Dip, Here’s One Chart To Consider
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Bridgewater “Manufactured False Evidence” To Crush Potential Competitors… And Was Jim Comey Involved?
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More Than Half Of COVID-19 Patients In New Study Have Heart Damage