The Anti-Human Green Agenda

https://odysee.com/@mises:1/the-anti-human-green-agenda:7

Tho Bishop and Connor Mortell discuss common energy policy narratives.

The Debt Ceiling Debate Was Pure Theater

https://mises.org/wire/debt-ceiling-debate-was-pure-theater

"When it comes to the debt ceiling, political parties are irrelevant, and the recent debt ceiling drama, was little more than a sham."

A Guide to Good Money: An Interview with Brendan Brown

https://mises.org/library/guide-good-money-interview-brendan-brown

"Globalization of money under a fiat regime magnifies and extends national monetary power. The currency of the largest economy becomes the dominant international money. Dominance brings hegemony. This is different from a world of gold monies."

Congratulations to both of you!

If we can't win on the merits, we'll just have to win through sheer numbers.

Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.

It's just delightful how delusional these people are. They wait for box office earnings and tv ratings to crater before going on strike.

AI already has their voices and likenesses. What leverage do they think they have?

Maybe we can just abolish the SPR and let markets allocate resources, instead of whichever octogenarian happens to be in power.

Out of frame, Q is planting explosives in Building 7.

Hang in there. It gets easier after day two, before it eventually becomes unbearable.

The conventional case for adopting the Constitution is straight Stockholm Syndrome. The rulers found it too difficult to expropriate us under the Articles, so they "needed" more centralized power. I used different phrasing, but that's the argument.

Does Bitcoin Have Intrinsic Value?

Aside from the economic insight that value is subjective, and therefore the idea of "intrinsic value" is nonsense, it's interesting to think about whether other assets have better non-monetary uses than Bitcoin.

https://odysee.com/@TraderUniversity:a/does-bitcoin-have-intrinsic-value-2:a?r=8T2xqWjtafHWYGxQBSsrbw1wQPm7sWRq

"In this video, I discuss the various definitions of "intrinsic value" in finance to see what applies to Bitcoin.

I conclude that there is no such thing as "intrinsic value" in finance. Options can have intrinsic value if they are in the money, but commodities, stocks, etc. don't really have an intrinsic value.

They might have a cost of production or a market value or a utility value, but not an intrinsic value that can be easily defined or agreed upon by everyone.

Bitcoin may not have intrinsic value, but the market clearly finds it valuable and has done so for many years now. People who think that they know better than the global market and that Bitcoin is worth zero are suffering from intellectual myopia and probably haven't done their research.

Bitcoin is an extremely robust global monetary network, as well as a digital commodity without a corporate or government issuer.

Bitcoin has verifiable scarcity that is enforced by various equilibria conditions that harness human greed for human good.

Bitcoin is the only bearer asset in the world that can be instantly zapped anywhere in the world.

Bitcoin allows human beings to send value to each other digitally and store that value without needing permission or help from a government or bank or other corporation.

If that's not intrinsic value, it is certainly utility value.

If you don't think that Bitcoin has utility--

It is probably because you live in a country with a strong rule of law, strong property rights, a relatively stable banking system, etc. and you're suffering from the worst kind of first-world privilege and myopia.

Even very civilized places are usually only a few steps away from fiat breakdown and total societal collapse, as we've seen with Lebanon and Turkey recently.

Bitcoin offers hope to the world."

So, you want all the fish to catch covid? If they don't have masks, how are they supposed to prevent the spread of a respiratory virus?

The Lab Leak Cover-Up

https://odysee.com/@KimIversen:d/the-lab-leak-cover-up:8?r=8T2xqWjtafHWYGxQBSsrbw1wQPm7sWRq

"Scientists Kristian Andersen and Robert Garry testified on the origins of COVID-19 before the House Oversight Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. The big question is whether or not the scientists were part of a laboratory leak cover-up. "

Which is more likely?

Florida uses a different currency, has its own monetary policy, and therefore can experience different inflation rates.

or

Demand for goods and services is growing faster than production can keep up with in Florida, because they got so many things right over the past three years and millions of new people have moved there.

Two economists are walking down the street, when one of them says "Hey, look it's a $20 bill."

The other economist looks at him disappointedly and responds "You know better than that. If there were a $20 bill on the ground, someone would have picked it up already."

Repealing Affirmative Action fixes this.

I think the least worst argument is that almost a quarter of all the Bitcoin that will ever exist has been lost by people dropping their wallets in the toilet or similarly stupid sounding things.

Absolutely, but I think the downsides of gold are why the BRICS are wanting to use it. There's no way they aren't all planning on cheating, which would be almost impossible on a transparent standard like Bitcoin.

What Did RFK Jr ACTUALLY Say About Jailing Dissent?

https://odysee.com/@KimIversen:d/what-did-rfk-jr-actually-say-about:d

My read on this is that RFK Jr. has wizened up a bit on environmental issues, as he now acknowledges that much of it is a corporatist scam.

His statements about jailing the Koch brothers were more akin to how most people feel about '60's tobacco executives, who knowingly withheld information about the harms attributable to their products, than the characterization of him wanting to jail people for dissenting views.

I'm still enthusiastically behind his primary campaign, for basically the same reasons I was rooting for Trump in 2016: All the bad guys are freaking out about it.

Why do we see articles about how much energy Bitcoin wastes, when porn uses five times as much energy?