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17 Jul CNN Just Perfectly Explained How Inflation Hurts the Working Class. But They Left Out the Most Important Part

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A broken clock is still right twice a day. And even CNN stumbles onto an accurate interpretation of the news once in a while. On New Day this morning, hosts John Berman and Christine Roman broke down the latest data showing spikes in consumer prices with...

17 Jul Can Bitcoin Become the World’s Money? A Soho Forum Debate

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Financial consultant John Vallis vs. George Mason University economist Lawrence H. White------------------Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/ReasonTV?sub_confirmation=1Like us on Facebook: https://ift.tt/1OFng0MFollow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/reasonReason is the planet's leading source of news, politics, and culture from a libertarian perspective. Go to reason.com for a point...

17 Jul The Protests In Cuba Tell a Much Bigger Global Story

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“Videos posted on social media showed security agents and groups of soldiers beating up demonstrators on Sunday. Protesters ripped up portraits of Fidel Castro, while others destroyed police motorbikes and overturned police cars.” Those are the words of Wall Street Journal reporters Jose de Cordoba and Santiago...

17 Jul Biden’s Executive Order on Competition

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Recently the Wall Street Journal stated that President Biden’s July 9 executive order on competition is a “sweeping proposal to spur competition.” That raises an important question: how can a government spur competition? Economics has a lot to say about that question. The major way,...

15 Jul My podcast with James Altucher

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The future of crypto, cities, and inflation: "I don't think of crypto as a currency. I think of it as a new set of institutions." – @tylercowen.Listen to the full episode here: https://t.co/0DyOOSHCaB.#cryptocurrencies #Crypto #Ethereum #bitcoin #btc #NYC pic.twitter.com/ytBDfY59LX — James Altucher (@jaltucher) July 9, 2021 The...

15 Jul What Is the Purpose of the Economy? Carl Menger Explains.

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This second part of the series about the Principles of Economics treats Menger’s exposition of the economy. In continuation of the first part, which covered the general concept of goods, the part on the economy treats the role of economic goods in relation to human wants. Based...

15 Jul The Depression of 1920-1921: Why Historians—and Economists—Often Overlook It

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In July 1921, the United States emerged from a depression. Though the economic statistics of the time were rudimentary by modern standards, the numbers confirm that it had been bad. By one estimate, output fell by 8.7 percent in real terms. (For comparison, output fell by...

15 Jul Will the Internet Destroy Cuba’s Communist Dictatorship?

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Historic protests enabled by social media and cell-phone footage are threatening to finally end Castro's revolutionary regime.------------------Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/ReasonTV?sub_confirmation=1Like us on Facebook: https://ift.tt/1OFng0MFollow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/reasonReason is the planet's leading source of news, politics, and culture from a libertarian perspective. Go...

14 Jul The Freedom of Production and Trade Under Capitalism (Part 3 of 10)

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This article is excerpted from chapter 20 “Toward The Establishment of Laissez-Faire Capitalism” from George Reisman’s Capitalism: A Treatise On Economics (1996). See the Amazon.com author’s page for additional titles by Dr. Reisman. The establishment of the freedom of production and trade implies the abolition of...

12 Jul EconTalking with Russ Roberts About the Pandemic

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(Don Boudreaux) TweetI’m always honored to be a guest of Russ on EconTalk. Here, he and I discuss Covid-19 and the public and political reaction to it. (See also here.) Read the Full Article here: >Cafe HayekCafe Hayek...

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