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• NASDAQ will Anlegern per Bitcoin mehr Risikostreuung anbieten<br> • Bitcoin-Optionen seit Mitte des Jahres an der NYSE<br> • Bitcoin-Optionen vs. Bitcoin-Index-Optionen<!-- sh_cad_1 --> <h2>US-Techbörse NASDAQ will Bitcoin-Indexoptionen anbieten</h2> Ende August 2024 reichte die US-Technologiebörse NASDAQ bei der Börsenaufsicht SEC... [embedded content]...

“Speaking truth to power” is not easy when you support that power. Perhaps this is the reason why so few Western historians are willing to tell the whole truth about state crimes during this century.Last fall the Moscow News reported the discovery by two archaeologist-historians of mass graves at Kuropaty, near Minsk, in the Soviet republic of Byelorussia.  The scholars at first estimated that the victims numbered around 102,000, a figure that was later revised to...

What is the Mises Institute? The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order....

Libertarianism is a consistent and principled philosophy that is absolute in scope and universal in application.We can begin with this classic description of libertarianism by libertarianism’s greatest theorist, Murray Rothbard (1926–1995):Libertarianism is not and does not pretend to be a complete moral, or aesthetic theory; it is only a political theory, that is, the important subset of moral theory that deals with the proper role of violence in social life....

What is the Mises Institute? The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order....

Pair bottomed at a low of 0.8375 and then recovered above 0.8400 but holds daily losses. US August NFPs came in lower than expected, following this weak labor market data trend. Investors might bet on a bigger cut in September from the Fed. On Friday, the USD/CHF fell to a daily low of 0.8375 and then recovered back above 0.8400. The upside, however, is limited as the US reported weak labor market figures. The US Dollar’s appeal diminished...

The United States is continuing its practice of insisting dominance in the Indian and Pacific oceans. Washington maintains a large military base on Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, and is now beginning to examine the Cocos Islands’ strategic value. American action increased significantly in the region after the British left Mauritius in 1968. At that point, the British decided to hang on to the Chagos Islands, incorporating them into the current British Indian Ocean...

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The First Amendment: Essays on the Imperative of Intellectual Freedomby Tara Smith, Onkar Ghate, Gregory Salmieri, and Elan JournoAyn Rand Institute Press, 2024418 pp.What is the source of human rights? Are they derived from man’s nature, or are they simply privileges that the government grants to its citizens? Or is some intermediate view also an option? According to Murray Rothbard and Ayn Rand, the first of these positions is correct.Tara Smith—the principal...

[A simplified video version of this article is available here.]According to the most recent report from the federal government’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, the US economy added 142,000 jobs during August while the unemployment rate fell slightly to 4.2 percent. Since the highly disappointing July jobs report, media reports on the state of the job market have become far less positive. This report was described by CNN as “mixed news.” Yet, the employment situation has...