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The Dark Side of Yield Curve Control Policy

By jeffc / May 14, 2021

The Bank of Japan has actually been pursuing a monetary policy of “yield curve control” (YCC) given that 2016, with which it keeps short and long-term rate of interest for Japanese debt securities at around 0 percent. To do this, it buys huge quantities of federal government bonds. The Reserve Bank of Australia has been […]

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Re The Lefty Twit Called Zuck

By / May 14, 2021

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The “Miracle Recovery” Narrative: We’ll Just Print Our Way to Prosperity

By jeffc / May 13, 2021

Over the last few weeks, we’ve been constantly bombarded by news reports and “expert” analyses celebrating an incredible global economic recovery. They’re not even presented as projections or expectations anymore, but as a fact, as though the return to vibrant growth were already underway. Stock markets certainly seem to agree, going from record high to record high while […]

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How Trillions in Recently Printed Cash Produced a Labor Scarcity

By jeffc / May 13, 2021

If you’re tired of binge-watching Netflix, there are likely a few restaurants in your neighborhood who would like to employ you. A job may assist ease the monotony. On the other hand, why work when one can simply be among the more than 6 million former workers now collecting “pandemic joblessness insurance coverage“? Those millions […]

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The Noneconomic Objections to Capitalism

By jeffc / May 13, 2021

[Editor’s note: this article is excerpted from part IV of The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality. In the nineteenth and twentieth century, socialists often argued that socialism was superior to capitalism because it would deliver a higher standard of living and more consumer goods. When it became clear socialism could not compete with capitalism in terms of material well-being, […]

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Why Is There No Connection in between Masks, Lockdowns, and Covid Suppression?

By jeffc / May 13, 2021

In the previous number of months, our respected public health specialists have had a rough go of protecting the allegedly settled science behind lockdowns and mask requireds. White House covid-19 advisor Andy Slavitt was initially on the slicing block back in mid-February, when he was decreased to parroting empty platitudes about social distancing after failing […]

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Alan Payne on a Fascinating History of Contending Service Designs

By jeffc / May 13, 2021

We can gain helpful insights by winding organization models back in time to see how they emerged and progressed. When it comes to competing company models, we can examine the different results and perhaps appoint some domino effect analysis to analyze why one design variant performed much better than another. How do we do that? […]

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“Transitory” My Eye – David Stockman’s Contra Corner

By / May 13, 2021

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The Gentility Just Appreciates Democracy When It Helps Them

By jeffc / May 13, 2021

Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan as soon as remarked that “[ d] emocracy resembles a tram. When you pertain to your stop, you leave.”Say what you desire about the Turkish president and his extravagant political aspirations, however Erdogan’s statement exposes an unpleasant reality about today state of democracy in the West. Regardless of the political […]

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Political Competition vs. Market Competitors

By jeffc / May 13, 2021

[Editor’s note: In this selection from The Society of Tomorrow, Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912) goes over how competitors in the political and natural worlds differ greatly from competitors in the marketplace. We discover Molinari makes some observations comparable to those of Ludwig von Mises in recognizing the consumer as the supreme arbiter of who “wins” […]

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