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  1. Pinned Tweet
    16 Nov 2018

    Forget Krugman's "Master Class": Check out our FREE Mises Boot Camp! Learn the basic fundamentals of Economics in only 3 hours!

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  2. 3 hours ago

    The thesis that “deficits don’t matter” does not begin with the English economist John Maynard Keynes, but with the much-less-known Polish economist Michal Kalecki. | Antony P. Mueller

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    19 hours ago

    On the latest and Matt McCaffrey discuss Omnipotent Government’s absolute relevance today.

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  4. May 31

    Environmental activists in US politics are making it quite clear that their goal is nothing short of a socialist economic revolution. |

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    May 31

    Corollary: the Gresham Effect is amplified as this central bank induced interest rate process plays out, leading to further hoarding/hodling and higher Bitcoin prices despite the fact that it's not being used to buy t shirts and candy bars.

    At 0%, Bitcoin has a higher yield than government bonds in 18 countries whose central banks are trying to debase their currencies and increase inflation. In other news, Bitcoin is up 133% year-to-date.
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  6. May 31

    Because enforced contract law and full property rights are the foundations of freedom, governance systems should be based on enforceable contracts that defend property rights. | Jim Fedako

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    May 31

    We Austrian schoolers tried to tell the financial world that it was impossible for the Fed to bring rates back to historical norms. More QE and negative rates ahead.

    Oops! Markets price almost 3 Fed cuts for this year.
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  8. May 31

    The trade deficit has increased since President Trump took office, consumer prices are rising, and American industries are losing their competitiveness on the world stage. | Andrew Moran

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  9. May 31

    The welfare state is a key ingredient in sowing social mistrust and discord among diverse groups in Sweden. | Jon Nylander

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  10. May 30

    Virtually all laws involve "legislating morality." When people use this phrase they often really just mean "I want laws to back my version of morality, not yours." |

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  11. May 30

    "Digital cash" is the latest terrible idea from those who want to give central banks more power to meddle in the economy. |

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    May 30

    The European elections saw some dubious anti-establishment forces surging. People are fed up by the status quo - but what we actually need is an EU based on decentralization, free trade, and (classical) liberal principles, as I write for :

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  13. May 30

    Just as people shouldn’t be forced to send their children to church, they shouldn’t be forced to send their children to a state-approved organization for secular education and training. |

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  14. May 30

    Even if both Trump and Xi both desired to reduce America's trade deficit with China, it's unlikely it will shrink in the short term. | Diego Santizo

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  15. May 29

    In two recent cases, Neil Gorsuch joined the "liberal" wing of the Court to side with Indian tribes in enhancing tribal sovereignty. This is a good thing for limiting and decentralizing government power. |

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    May 29

    Robert Mueller today invoked "govt.'s effort to find the truth." Mueller spent much of his career hiding the truth on the DEA and NSA surveillance, FBI entrapment, and many other outrages.

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    May 29

    This is a strangely common view nowadays. If it doesn't scare the heck out of you, you're reading it wrong. If *everybody* is poor, there's no poverty (!). If *everybody* is starving, there's no hunger. But if someone isn't, there is. So the easiest solution to the problem is...

    Replying to @GregoryMakles @PerBylund
    (What causes poverty is a way to compare wealth which requires wealth variability between measured entities. In other word, poverty requires prosperity (and the other way around) to exist.
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  18. May 29

    The thesis that “deficits don’t matter” does not begin with the English economist John Maynard Keynes, but with the much-less-known Polish economist Michal Kalecki. | Antony P. Mueller

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  19. May 29

    Socialism will always encounter two big problems when regimes attempt to implement it: 1) the impossibility of economic calculation without true market prices, and 2) the lack of an inventive to produce only what consumers actually want. | Jorge Besada

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  20. May 28

    The siren song of a stable price level had lured leading politicians and economists since as early as 1911. | Murray Rothbard

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  21. May 28

    It is the lethal combination of tariffs and the end of the expansionary phase of the credit cycle which should concern us. |

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