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The Euro Is a Frankenstein-Currency https://mises.org/mises-wire/euro-frankenstein-currency ![](https://m.stacker.news/48846) By Thorsten Polleit > It may not have been manufactured in the lab of a mad scientist, but the euro is still a manufactured, cobbled-together currency made from a number of national monetary units. Indeed, it is the perfect Frankenstein currency. originally posted at
The Fable of the Economic “Soft Landing” https://mises.org/mises-wire/fable-economic-soft-landing ![](https://m.stacker.news/48462) By Frank Shostak > Keynesians believe that if there is a bout of inflation, central banks can slowly guide the economy to a “soft landing” which minimizes unemployment and income losses. Such policies, however, only lead to further boom-and-bust scenarios. originally posted at
Powell: More Easy Money Is Coming Soon https://mises.org/mises-wire/powell-more-easy-money-coming-soon ![](https://m.stacker.news/48319) By Ryan McMaken > The Fed promises a soft landing, but the fact that the Fed now plans to start cutting interest rates is one of the strongest recession signals we can get. ![](https://m.stacker.news/48320) originally posted at
Bitcoin, Looters, and Producers From Matthew Kratter's Bitcoin University # Video Description > In this video, I discuss the difference between producers and looters, and how Bitcoin incentivizes more producers and fewer looters. > Producers are inventors, creators, entrepreneurs, craftsmen, farmers, ranchers, carpenters, programmers, teachers, engineers, etc. who provide goods and services or work for businesses that provide goods and services that real people actually desire. > By contrast, looters steal things. Looters are people who break into your house or car and take things, or trick you into accidentally sending them money, etc. > There are other types of looters: > "Licensors" are people who take away your natural human right to do something (like drive a car, or cut someone else's hair) and then sell that right back to you in exchange for an annual extortion payment called a "license." > Another group of looters are the people who try to force you to buy something or do something that you don't want to buy or do. > Central banking is the looters' greatest invention ever. Central bankers make money at the press of a button, while you need to work for your money. Central bankers print up the same money for free and then use it to fund your oppressor (the federal government, with all of its violence, extortion, blackmail, and racketeering). > Bitcoin is the Great Shield, gifted to us by Satoshi himself, in order to help us to protect ourselves from the looters, the rent-seekers, and the other enemies of a just society that is built on the principles of freedom and voluntary exchange. originally posted at
Be Prepared to Hear More about Taxes, Taxes, Taxes https://mises.org/mises-wire/be-prepared-hear-more-about-taxes-taxes-taxes ![](https://m.stacker.news/47743) By Jane L. Johnson > With the US government engaged in out-of-control spending, we are looking at tax increases in the coming years. And even if Congress does not pass official tax hikes, we will see the government seizing wealth via inflation. Mises: > It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action. The funds that a government spends for whatever purposes are levied by taxation. And taxes are paid because the taxpayers are afraid of offering resistance to the tax gatherers. They know that any disobedience or resistance is hopeless. As long as this is the state of affairs, the government is able to collect the money that it wants to spend. originally posted at
New Minimum Wage Increase in Nigeria is a Pyrrhic Victory for Organized Labor https://mises.org/mises-wire/new-minimum-wage-increase-nigeria-pyrrhic-victory-organized-labor ![](https://m.stacker.news/47740) By Michael Njoku > The Nigerian government has passed a new minimum wage law, and the usual suspects are happy because the country "is getting a raise." Economic reality, however, will set in soon enough. Rothbard: > Compulsory unemployment is achieved indirectly through minimum wage laws. On the free market, everyone’s wage tends to be set at his discounted marginal value productivity. A minimum wage law means that those whose DMVP is below the legal minimum are prevented from working. The worker was willing to take the job, and the employer to hire him. But the decree of the State prevents this hiring from taking place. (italics in original) Mises: > The sacrifice that a man or a group makes in renouncing some short-run gains, lest they endanger the peaceful operation of the apparatus of social cooperation, is merely temporary. It amounts to an abandonment of a small immediate profit for the sake of incomparably greater advantages in the long run. originally posted at
10 Planks of Communism https://ia802800.us.archive.org/20/items/TenPlanks/TheTenPlanks.pdf There's a lot of discussion right now about whether various politicians are actually communists or not. How should that be adjudicated? A reasonable place to start might be comparing their views with those of the Communist Manifesto. For reference, these are the famous planks of communist revolution: 1. Abolition of Property in Land and Application of all Rents of Land to Public Purpose. 2. A Heavy Progressive or Graduated Income Tax. 3. Abolition of All Rights of Inheritance. 4. Confiscation of the Property of All Emigrants and Rebels. 5. Centralization of Credit in the Hands of the State, by Means of a National Bank with State Capital and an Exclusive Monopoly. 6. Centralization of the Means of Communication and Transport in the Hands of the State. 7. Extension of Factories and Instruments of Production Owned by the State, the Bringing Into Cultivation of Waste Lands, and the Improvement of the Soil Generally in Accordance with a Common Plan. 8. Equal Liability of All to Labor. Establishment of Industrial Armies, Especially for Agriculture. 9. Combination of Agriculture with Manufacturing Industries; Gradual Abolition of the Distinction Between Town and Country by a More Equable Distribution of the Population over the Country. 10. Free Education for All Children in Public Schools. Abolition of Children's Factory Labor in it's Present Form. Combination of Education with Industrial Production. I don't think any prominent American politician scores above 4/10 on this. The more accurate term for American politicians is "fascist". They generally seek to exercise power through pressuring the private sector to do the state's bidding. originally posted at
The Only Place to Invest: The Blackhole Is Wiping Out the Old Guard! From Mark Moss # Video Description > The Investing Blackhole is growing fast sucking in all nearby funds, killing portfolios using old investment strategies like Ray Dalio's funds, which have lost over $70 billion dollars, and... you have a choice, to either use this black hole's energy to grow your portfolio or risk getting sucked inside and never escaping to... the portfolio, retirement, or life you dreamed of. And warning, this might be hard for you to understand because you’re going to have to throw out a lot of what you learned from your financial advisor. So in this video, I will break down: > ● What this investing blackhole is ● Why Ray Dalio’s and your financial advisor's strategies are at risk ● How you can invest in this black hole to stay ahead originally posted at
Back to the Future With Price Controls https://mises.org/power-market/back-future-price-controls By Jacob G. Hornberger > Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris is demonstrating why monetary debasement has always been a favorite way for government officials to plunder the citizenry. originally posted at
Greedflation and Debtflation are Nonsense https://mises.org/power-market/greedflation-and-debtflation-are-nonsense By D.W. MacKenzie > Popular discussions of inflation and the economy have produced more heat than light, if not heat and darkness. ![](https://m.stacker.news/47509) originally posted at
The Bankruptcy Parade Continues: U.S. Cities and Towns https://mises.org/power-market/bankruptcy-parade-continues-us-cities-and-towns By Stephen Anderson > Unlike the federal government, local entities cannot print their own money and they are subject to economic boom and bust cycles. originally posted at
Federal Jobs Report Slices Total Jobs in New Revision https://mises.org/power-market/federal-jobs-report-slices-total-jobs-new-revision By Ryan McMaken > We already knew recent jobs reports—as far as the establishment survey is concerned—was based largely on made up numbers. originally posted at
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Print, Pump, Tax, Repeat From Matthew Kratter's Bitcoin University # Video Description > In this video, I discuss how a government's money printers combined with an unrealized capital gains tax can be used to confiscate everyone's savings over a very short period of time. > The more you print, the more you devalue cash and pump asset prices. You then use realized and unrealized capital gains taxes to harvest these pumping assets and steal from your citizens. > Ultimately, the rich will flee a country that does this, tanking the stock market and leaving behind fewer jobs and more problems for the working and middle classes. > The best hedge against terrible economic policies like this remains Bitcoin, which is portable and cannot be confiscated or debased or diluted by money printing. originally posted at
The Truth Behind Price Controls and What To Do! From Mark Moss # Video Description > Price Controls Are Coming, Kamala is talking about it now, but it’s nothing new, except now, it’s making mainstream news and they are saying the quiet part out loud. > Again, another lawmaker, this time Kamala thinks she can now pick the price of bread, bacon, or lettuce even though she hasn’t been in a grocery store for 4 years, nor has she ever ran a farm, and any business for that matter. > And just like here, dozens of other leaders from the Roman Empire to the Soviets, Venezuela, and even in the US President Richard Nixon thought he should give it a go, and the results, well… the results have always been the same… > But… because its been tried so many times with predictable results, we also have a playbook we can follow to protect ourselves so… in this video, we will look at… > What Kamala and other politicians are saying We will look at prices, to understand price gouging We will look soaring corporate profits since the pandemic Examine Richard Nixons previous attempt right here in the US And… how we can protect ourselves as this progress originally posted at