Is Europe in Crisis?
https://odysee.com/@mises:1/is-europe-in-crisis:6?r=8T2xqWjtafHWYGxQBSsrbw1wQPm7sWRq
## Video Description
> On this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop are joined by Karl-Friedrich Israel, recorded during AERC 2024. Dr. Israel discusses the economic conditions in Europe, the problem with inflation measures, and the network of European scholars rallying to the ideas of Austrian economics.
The Real Reason You Should Drink Coffee
## Video Description
Coffee in moderation can do a lot more than wake you up! Discover the fascinating health benefits of drinking coffee.
In this video, we’re going to talk about some of the health benefits of drinking coffee. Remember, don’t drink coffee if it gives you anxiety, increases your heart rate, or prevents you from sleeping. Too much coffee can increase cortisol and adrenaline, so limit your daily coffee intake to one cup.
Caffeine is a phytochemical found in coffee and other plants. Caffeine keeps us awake by inhibiting a compound called adenosine. Coffee can give you mental acuity, help you focus, and improve your ability to learn. It speeds up the rate of metabolism and helps regulate blood sugar, especially if you add MCT oil or butter.
Research has shown that coffee may even help decrease your risk of dementia! Here are some of the other potential health benefits of coffee:
• Decreases symptoms related to Parkinson's and Alzheimer's
• Decreases risk of gallstones
• Increases the production and flow of bile
• Prevents kidney stones
• Has anti-cancer properties
• Has anti-inflammatory properties
• Has hepatoprotective properties
• Contains polyphenols to feed your microbiome
• Can help improve postural hypotension
• Improves exercise performance
• Increases cardiac output
• Delays muscle soreness
• Decreases symptoms experienced at high altitudes
• Increases mitochondrial biogenesis
• Increases stomach acid
There Is Now Scientific Proof JFK Wasn't Assassinated By Lee Harvey Oswald
## Video Description
> Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D is the Co-Author of The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy: The Final Analysis. The book, written along side Dr. David Mantik presents indisputable forensic evidence that two shots fired from the front and one shot fired from the rear killed the president in a Dealey Plaza crossfire. Dr. Mantik’s meticulous CSI examination of the JFK skull X-rays demonstrates that the medical evidence, when properly understood, is the key to exposing a stunning government coup d’état and sixty-year coverup executed by the CIA, the FBI, the Pentagon, and the Secret Service to frame Lee Harvey Oswald as the Warren Commission's "lone gun assassin."
The False Consensus on Egalitarianism
https://mises.org/mises-wire/false-consensus-egalitarianism
By Wanjiru Njoya
> Murray Rothbard said it best: egalitarianism is a revolt against nature itself. Unfortunately, progressive politicians are determined to push egalitarian regimes no matter how disastrous they turn out to be.
Why Argentina Needs a 100%-Reserves Banking System
https://mises.org/power-market/why-argentina-needs-100-reserves-banking-system
By Philipp Bagus
> Professor Huerta de Soto’s comments on dollarization in Argentina, the necessity of a 100% reserve ratio to prevent bank runs, and Milei’s plans are worth reading by everyone interested in the matter.
America's Fiscal Collapse Accelerates
https://mises.org/mises-wire/americas-fiscal-collapse-accelerates
By Peter St. Onge
> It’s official: the Department of Treasury is now issuing debt at pandemic levels. It’s worth noting the pandemic record was double the previous record, which had stood for 231 years.
The Important Legacy of Hayek's The Road to Serfdom
https://mises.org/mises-wire/important-legacy-hayeks-road-serfdom
By Stephen Anderson
> F.A. Hayek’s classic The Road to Serfdom was published eighty years ago. Critics then called Hayek a “reactionary.” Today, he is looking more and more like a prophet.
Why are you volunteering your energy to run defense for the regime?
You know they pay their own people for that, right?
Why would you adjust an exchange rate for inflation?
If you want to say bitcoin hasn't hit it's ATH for purchasing power, that's different.
Is Bitcoin Too Slow?
https://odysee.com/@TraderUniversity:a/is-bitcoin-too-slow:7?r=8T2xqWjtafHWYGxQBSsrbw1wQPm7sWRq
## Video Description
In this video, I discuss whether Bitcoin is too slow to be global money. I conclude that it is not too slow. Bitcoin's throughput is approximately the same as FedWire, which currently functions as the global settlement layer for the US dollar.
People who tell you that Bitcoin is too slow almost always have an altcoin that they want to sell you instead.
Want a faster base layer solution than Bitcoin? You'll have to give up on decentralization and neutrality and settle for a more centralized solution, which brings with it the possibility of censorship and capture.
The Bitcoin blockchain is becoming the new global money settlement layer, equivalent to FedWire today-- or moving physical gold around using boats and trains and planes under the gold standard.
Money always scales in layers, just as Bitcoin is scaling from on-chain to higher layers like the Lightning Network and fedimints.
It's catching on more than I would have thought.
Biden’s Latest Vote-Buying Scheme: Student Loan Cancellation
https://mises.org/mises-wire/bidens-latest-vote-buying-scheme-student-loan-cancellation
By Mitch Nemeth
> Despite court rulings, Biden is trying to do end runs around the law in an attempt to buy votes with his student loan cancellation schemes. His actions, not surprisingly, are illegal, but don’t expect any arrests.
Utah Empowers State Treasurer to Protect State Funds with Gold and Silver
By Jp Cortez
> Texas and Ohio have previously acquired gold. Meanwhile, legislation like HB 348 is under consideration right now in Missouri, Tennessee, Idaho, and West Virginia.
6 Myths About Globalization, Trade, Jobs, and "Buy American"
> Politicians on both sides now say globalization and free trade is bad. Much of what they say is just WRONG.
It’s time to debunk their myths.
Bitcoin Is Nonviolent Money
## Video Description
In this video, I discuss what makes Bitcoin ethical and nonviolent money-- unlike fiat money.
Bitcoin is a permissionless, voluntary system.
Don't like Bitcoin? No problem, you don't have to use it.
There are many problems with modern money (fiat money). It's really bad at preserving your purchasing power.
Modern money is also the funding mechanism behind all modern wars. The US has never paid for its modern forever wars with taxes. If it did, the population would rebel. Instead, the US just prints up as much monopoly money as it needs and exchanges it for aircraft carriers, bombs, and drones. Fiat money is the money of death.
Fiat money is also violence-- it's imposed on people at the barrel of a gun.
I never opted into the US dollar system, and yet I'm forced to use it. I'm forced to use US dollars to pay my taxes, or men with guns will put me in a metal cage. If I choose to use an alternate form of money like Bitcoin, then they hit me with capital gains taxes, in an effort to support their monetary moat. Is that how ethical, nonviolent money should work?
At the same time, I need to work hard to earn US dollars, while central bankers can print up as many USD as they need for free. Where's the justice in that? When Elizabeth Warren or Janet Yellen tell me that Bitcoin is bad, they never tell me why their money (imposed at gun barrel) is good for me-- which is why I'm going to assume that it's only good for them.
By contrast, Bitcoin is opt-in money. It's voluntary money. Don't like Bitcoin? No problem-- you don't have to use it. Like Bitcoin? You and anyone else are free to use Bitcoin. There's no license required. You can earn it, send it, receive it, mine it, without needing to get certified or approved by anyone. You don't need to open up an account anywhere. You can download a free Bitcoin mobile wallet and start getting paid in BTC. You could even just roll a dice and generate private keys and billions of Bitcoin addresses that can be used to receive Bitcoin (no software required). Your Bitcoin private keys are just a really large random number. You can also earn Bitcoin by plugging in a mining rig, no license required.
Bitcoin is math. Bitcoin is voluntary, permissionless money.
That in itself makes it superior to fiat money and its violence.
You cannot be an effective advocate for nonviolence while still using and supporting fiat money.
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If only there had been an economic crisis we could draw conclusions from that isn't almost a hundred years old.
The Fraud Inherent in Fractional Reserve Banking
https://mises.org/mises-wire/fraud-inherent-fractional-reserve-banking
By Frank Hollenbeck
> Although fractional reserve banking is the most popular model for banking, it is fraudulent at its core, something the Austrians have noted for many years.
It’s Economic Logic: Increasing the Minimum Wage Creates More Unemployment
https://mises.org/mises-wire/its-economic-logic-increasing-minimum-wage-creates-more-unemployment
By Frank Shostak
> According to mainstream economists, the question of whether increasing the minimum wage also increases unemployment is empirical. However, the logic of economic analysis says otherwise.