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No More “Free Trade” Treaties: It’s Time for Genuine Free Trade | Mises Daily

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It is erroneous to believe that free traders have been historically in favor of free trade agreements between governments. Paradoxically, the opposite is true. Curiously, many laissez-faire advocates fall into the government-made trap by supporting “free-trade” treaties. However, as Vilfredo Pareto stated in the article “Traités de commerce of the Nouveau Dictionnaire d’Economie Politique” (1901): Read More

Mises Weekends | Mises Institute

Martin Armstrong is one of the most famous economic forecasters alive, but you wouldn’t know it after the whitewashing job he’s suffered at the hands of the federal government and the mainstream financial press. The man who in the 1980s and 90s had central bankers and politicians calling him for advice is now scrubbed from Read More

▶ Seven Stages Of Empire – Hidden Secrets Of Money Ep 2 – Mike Maloney (History of Money)

So there you have it folks, the Seven Stages Of Empire. Rather than write about the video itself and undo the simple elegance of Mike’s explanations, I thought I’d come from a different angle — what you can do to help us. The good news is that it is actually pretty simple. If you enjoyed Read More
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L’Ue è sotto scacco della Grecia. Però costrinse l’Italia a pagare – IlGiornale.it

Nel 2011 i nostri conti erano in ordine, ma il governo Berlusconi cadde ugualmente per via dello spread. Adesso è Atene sull'orlo del baratro: la resistenza a oltranza sta dando frutti «Se il Delaware mandasse in rovina l’economia degli Stati Uniti, sarebbe colpa degli Stati Uniti, non del Delaware». Come dare torto a Yanis Varoufakis? Read More

▶ Great Myths of the Great Depression!

www.fee.org/articles/great-myths-of-the-­great-depression/ Many volumes have been written about the Great Depression of 1929-1941 and its impact on the lives of millions of Americans. Historians, economists and politicians have all combed the wreckage searching for the “black box” that will reveal the cause of the calamity. Sadly, all too many of them decide to abandon their search, Read More

Government Explained 1 & 2

An inquisitive alien visits the planet to check on our progress as a species, and gets into a conversation with the first person he meets. The alien discovers that we live under the rule of a thing called “government”, and wants to understand more about what “government” is, what it does, and why it exists. Read More
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The Next Step in the Global Meltdown – LewRockwell.com

Europe will lead the world into Economic Totalitarianism because government is now desperate to retain the euro. If the euro collapses, so will Brussels. The government exists solely because of the euro. The key is the fatal design of the euro. Failure to consolidate the debts of all individual member states has been the worst possible Read More
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Hey, Barney Frank: The Government Did Cause the Housing Crisis – The Atlantic

Of the 19.2 million subprime/low quality loans on the books of government agencies in 2008, 12 million were held or guaranteed by Fannie and Freddie A member of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission responds to our interview with Barney Frank, arguing that without the government’s intervention, there would be no housing crisis Reuters On December Read More

Who are Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? | Graziadio Business Review | Graziadio School of Business and Management | Pepperdine University

Who are Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? Why did the government take them over and how did it impact the housing crisis? By Peggy J. Crawford, PhD and Terry Young, PhD 2008 Volume 11 Issue 4 This article examines the factors that led to the creation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The authors trace Read More
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▶ Storia dell’economia Liberismo contro Keynesismo

FACEBOOK – https://www.facebook.com/azione.prometeo BLOG – http://azioneprometeo.wordpress.com/2… La storia del novecento vista sotto l’aspetto economico, principalmente nella lotta dottrinale tra due punti di vista, quello keynesista e quello neoliberista, personificati dalle figure degli economisti Keynes e Von Hayek. ▶ Storia dell’economia Liberismo contro Keynesismo 1/2 – YouTube.     ▶ Storia dell’economia Liberismo contro Keynesismo 2/2 Read More

▶ Robert Higgs: “The Logic of Crisis and Leviathan and Why It Still Holds” – YouTube

!Centralism, !Monopoly, !Planned economy          
On February 17, 2014 Robert Higgs presented the above speech as part of the ongoing Economic Liberty Lecture Series, a joint project of The Future of Freedom Foundation and the George Mason University Economics Society. Robert Higgs is Senior Fellow in Political Economy for The Independent Institute and Editor at Large of the Institute’s quarterly Read More
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Mao’s Great Leap Forward ‘killed 45 million in four years’ – News – Books – The Independent

Speaking at The Independent Woodstock Literary Festival, Frank Dikötter, a Hong Kong-based historian, said he found that during the time that Mao was enforcing the Great Leap Forward in 1958, in an effort to catch up with the economy of the Western world, he was responsible for overseeing “one of the worst catastrophes the world Read More