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False Virtue: The Life and Death of “American Exceptionalism”

The impending decline of the dollar is apparently imposing a real Halloween scare on the American foreign policy establishment. An August 22, 2023, article on the Council on Foreign Relations website entitled “The Future of Dollar Hegemony” explained that  the dollar’s global hegemony gives the U.S. government power to impose crippling sanctions and wage other forms of financial welfare against adversaries. . . . In 2022, more than twelve thousand entities were under...

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Dollar Hegemony Fuels America’s Foreign Crusades

Mises Institute president Thomas DiLorenzo joins Ryan and Tho to discuss the moralistic claims behind American foreign policy. These claims intensified with the American Civil War and became a creed of American nationalists by the twentieth century. With the rise of the global dollar and dollar hegemony, America's foreign crusades became ever larger and more frequent.  "False Virtue: The Life and Death of 'American Exceptionalism'" by Thomas J....

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Time Preference Is the Key Driver of Interest Rates

By popular thinking, whenever the central bank raises the growth rate of the money supply through the buying of financial assets such as Treasuries this pushes the prices of Treasuries higher and their yields lower. This is labeled as the monetary liquidity effect. This effect is inversely correlated with interest rates. Furthermore, an increase in the money supply after a time lag strengthens economic activity and this pushes interest rates higher. Note that we have...

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Statist Ideology and War: Israel versus Hamas

As I wrote in my previous piece on statism and the Israel-Hamas conflict, states are organized crime rackets. Wars between states thus represent warfare between rival gangs. The proper libertarian position with reference to such gang wars is neutrality, or the opposition to all state parties to war. Neutrality includes opposition to interventionism, including opposition to sending arms and aid to other nations. Foreign aid increases the tax aggression on the...

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The Oil Price-Stock Market Connection, the 100 Year Financial Cycle, and the Next Crash

Recorded at the Mises Circle in Fort Myers, Florida, 4 November 2023. Special thanks to Murray and Florence M. Sabrin for making this event possible. The Oil Price-Stock Market Connection, 100 Year Financial Cycle, and the Next Crash | Murray Sabrin Video of The Oil Price-Stock Market Connection, 100 Year Financial Cycle, and the Next Crash | Murray Sabrin [embedded content]...

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The Radical Uncertainty of a Polymorphic Fed

Recorded at the Mises Circle in Fort Myers, Florida, 4 November 2023. Includes audience question and answer period.  Special thanks to Murray and Florence M. Sabrin for making this event possible. The Radical Uncertainty of a Polymorphic Fed | Jonathan Newman Video of The Radical Uncertainty of a Polymorphic Fed | Jonathan Newman [embedded content]...

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The “Climate Emergency”: Fueled by 21st Century Marxism

Europe currently faces several challenges that potentially harm the quality of life for people in general but especially for young individuals, preventing them from developing their lives autonomously and independently. The housing crisis, reflected in overcrowded accommodation affecting 28 percent of young people aged 15 to 29, is just one example. Freedom of expression in Europe also seems more threatened than ever. Highly controlled content is removed from social...

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