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• What Toilet Kombucha Can Teach You about Capitalism
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  Tyler Brandt | Thursday, June 8, 2023
  LINKS: https://fee.org/articles/the-essence-of-capitalism-is-mutual-consent/https://reason.com/2015/04/06/why-capitalism-beats-communism/https://triblive.com/opinion/walter-williams-morality-of-free-markets/https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/FreeMarket.htmlhttps://study.com/academy/lesson/the-principle-of-voluntary-exchange-in-a-market-economy.htmlhttps://mises.org/wire/freedom-choice-what-sets-capitalism-apart-not-competitionhttps://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/freemarket.asp
• Why the Late Robert Lucas Deserved His Nobel Prize
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  Peter Jacobsen | Wednesday, May 31, 2023

  As the Lucas critique points out, people are not simply chess pieces responding to the parameters enlightened experts tweak. Instead, people are intelligent and responsive. You cannot expect people to respond the same way to changes each time.

• Thank you, and goodbye. Now it’s your turn.
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  Tyler Brandt | Tuesday, February 28, 2023
  LINKS: — White Savior-ism — https://movies.mxdwn.com/feature/a-critical-analysis-of-white-savior-films-and-why-you-should-avoid-them/https://aninjusticemag.com/the-problems-with-hollywoods-white-savior-narratives-2ed0bd5e5cf6https://birthmoviesdeath.com/2015/09/16/amistad-spielberg-and-the-sword-of-empathy — Intersectional Nonsense — https://www.huffpost.com/entry/no-white-people-will-neve_b_7875608https://www.nas.org/blogs/article/separate_but_equal_again_neo_segregation_at_yalehttps://fashion-manufacturing.com/hawaiian-shirts-cultural-appropriation/ — Economic Turmoil — https://www.nber.org/research/business-cycle-datinghttps://reason.com/2022/07/28/after-2-consecutive-quarters-of-negative-economic-growth-is-america-in-a-recession/https://www.bea.gov/data/gdp/gross-domestic-product — Amistad — https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/amistad_002.asp
• Inflation is a Crime. YOU’RE the Victim.
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  Tyler Brandt |
  LINKS: – Inflation – https://www.wsj.com/articles/wsj-poll-biden-inflation-voters-11638897374https://www.bls.gov/cpi/https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/10/inflation-eroded-pay-by-1point7percent-over-the-past-year.htmlhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/inflation-disproportionately-hurts-the-poor-11624207206https://fee.org/articles/3-ways-rising-price-inflation-hurts-everyday-americans/https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/inflation-cpihttps://www.usnews.com/news/economy/articles/2022-02-22/consumer-confidence-ticks-down-in-february-on-inflation-fearshttps://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/whats-causing-inflation-economists-point-fingers-different-culprits-rcna16156https://techstartups.com/2021/12/18/80-us-dollars-existence-printed-january-2020-october-2021/https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Supply-demand-right-shift-demand.svg#/media/File:Supply-demand-right-shift-demand.svg – Venezuela – https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/02/venezuela-inflation-at-10-million-percent-its-time-for-shock-therapy.htmlhttps://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/10/1/venezuela-introduces-new-currency-drops-six-zeroshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_Venezuela – The Great Debasement – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Debasementhttps://www.jstor.org/stable/2593065https://www.tcd.ie/Economics/assets/pdf/SER/1997/Catherine_Downey.pdf – Counterfeiting – https://www.fox4now.com/news/local-news/man-sentenced-to-federal-prison-for-using-counterfeit-moneyhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/09/17/virginia-woman-sentenced-counterfeit-coupon-scam/https://www.mysuncoast.com/2021/05/25/counterfeiter-cant-stop-now-hes-headed-back-prison/ – Money Supply & Diminishing Marginal Return – https://image.cnbcfm.com/api/v1/image/106649548-1596642770437-20200805_m2_money_supply_percent_change_year_earlier.png?v=1https://www.reuters.com/business/economists-eye-surging-money-supply-inflation-fears-mount-2021-06-17/https://economics21.org/americas-ballooning-money-supplyhttps://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/lawofdiminishingmarginalreturn.asp – CPI & Interest Rates – https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/10/business/economy/inflation-cpi-january-2022.htmlhttps://www.investopedia.com/producer-price-inflation-rises-in-january-2022-5219109https://www.reuters.com/business/fed-raise-rates-three-times-this-year-tame-unruly-inflation-2022-01-20/ – We Set The Economy On Fire (2020 economic prediction) – https://youtu.be/Cpvm8ZKfKh0
• “Socially Conscious” Corporations are Lying to You
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  Tyler Brandt | Tuesday, February 21, 2023
  LINKS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental,_social,_and_corporate_governance https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/esg/esg-score/ https://www.fool.com/investing/stock-market/types-of-stocks/esg-investing/esg-rating/ https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/environmental-social-and-governance-esg-criteria.asp https://web.archive.org/web/20220802194015/https://fortune.com/2022/05/18/tesla-sp-esg-index-exxon-elon-musk/ https://nypost.com/2022/11/28/elon-musks-view-of-this-investing-strategy-esg-is-the-devil/ https://cleantechnica.com/2022/05/21/in-a-parallel-universe-oil-companies-included-in-sp-500-esg-index-while-tesla-kicked-out-oh-wait/ https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2022/03/16/the-false-promise-of-esg/ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jun/30/climate-crimes-oil-and-gas-environment https://www.reuters.com/business/how-russias-war-blindsided-world-esg-investing-2022-07-01/ https://qz.com/2180075/hm-showed-bogus-environmental-higg-index-scores-for-its-clothing https://www.thomsonreuters.com/en/reports/esg-under-strain.html https://earth.org/greenwashing-companies-corporations/
• ESG Wars: Get Woke or Go Broke
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  Tyler Brandt |
  LINKS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental,_social,_and_corporate_governance https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/esg/esg-score/ https://www.fool.com/investing/stock-market/types-of-stocks/esg-investing/esg-rating/ https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/environmental-social-and-governance-esg-criteria.asp https://www.forbes.com/sites/qai/2022/05/20/tesla-is-being-booted-from-the-esg-index/?sh=36a3923c25d6 https://time.com/6180638/tesla-esg-index-musk/ https://reason.org/commentary/esg-investing-is-bad-for-the-economy/
• Florida Man Learns THE TRUTH Behind Inflation
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  Tyler Brandt |
  LINKS: https://www.federalreserveeducation.org/about-the-fed/structure-and-functions https://www.usa.gov/federal-agencies/federal-reserve-system https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/FederalReserveSystem.html https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/federal-reserve-chair-jerome-powell-says-inflation-fight-may-cause-a-recession https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/042015/how-does-money-supply-affect-inflation.asp https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/02/06/federal-reserve-inflation-money-supply/ https://fee.org/articles/the-federal-reserve-system/ https://fee.org/articles/interest-rates-and-the-federal-reserve https://fee.org/articles/banking-before-the-federal-reserve-the-us-and-canada-compared/ https://fee.org/articles/the-federal-reserve-s-shell-game/ https://fee.org/articles/after-a-decade-of-cheap-money-the-federal-reserve-still-has-no-exit-strategy/
• Don’t “JUST Vote”. LEARN.
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  Tyler Brandt |
  LINKS: Unintended Consequences of Policy:https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/UnintendedConsequences.html https://www.austriancenter.com/unintended-consequences-of-regulation/ https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/AustrianSchoolofEconomics.html https://fee.org/wp-content/uploads/articles/cliches46.pdf https://fee.org/articles/the-cobra-effect-lessons-in-unintended-consequences/ https://immagic.com/eLibrary/ARCHIVES/GENERAL/CATO_US/C050125W.pdf https://fee.org/articles/st-paul-s-mayor-is-already-scrambling-to-amend-the-city-s-harmful-rent-control-law/ https://fee.org/articles/how-minimum-wage-and-rent-control-laws-fail-the-bronowski-test/ https://fee.org/archive/topics/Unintended%20Consequences https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/6867865-the-curious-task-of-economics-is-to-demonstrate-to-men Irrational Voting:https://www.jstor.org/stable/1830396seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_the_Rational_Voter#:~:text=The%20Myth%20of%20the%20Rational%20Voter%3A%20Why%20Democracies%20Choose%20Bad,can%20trust%20to%20make%20laws https://www.issuelab.org/resources/2808/2808.pdf https://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?id=723 https://www.econlib.org/archives/2016/03/myth_of_the_rat_9.html https://fee.org/archive/topics/Voting https://fee.org/resources/liberty-a-path-to-its-recovery/#link-8 https://fee.org/articles/fa-harper-the-greatest-threat-to-liberty-is-the-idea-that-democracy-guarantees-freedom/ https://fee.org/articles/3-ideas-for-making-the-post-election-world-a-better-place/ https://fee.org/resources/against-majority-rule/
• California Tanked Its Economy for NOTHING??
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  Tyler Brandt | Monday, February 20, 2023
  LINKS: Experiments in Human Sacrifice: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/04/why-georgia-reopening-coronavirus-pandemic/610882/ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/human-sacrifice-ritual-mass-vaccination/621355/ https://saw.americananthro.org/pub/human-sacrifices-not-heroes-us-essential-workers/release/1 https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/americas-chilling-experiment-in-human-sacrifice https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/04/coronavirus-unique-threat-south-young-people/609241/ Lockdown Efficacy: https://www.aier.org/article/lockdowns-do-not-control-the-coronavirus-the-evidence/?fbclid=IwAR0MybXfTTNJAqnXoK-VREYaVZ11v7LdM6Br8bjmyfyWP68QccEogJ0heNw https://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?id=1572 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3764553 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2405-7 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00779954.2020.1844786 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3607803 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2020.604339/full https://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/iae/files/2022/01/A-Literature-Review-and-Meta-Analysis-of-the-Effects-of-Lockdowns-on-COVID-19-Mortality.pdf Different State Responses: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-coronavirus-isnt-just-a-blue-state-problem/ https://blogs.worldbank.org/sustainablecities/urban-density-not-enemy-coronavirus-fight-evidence-china https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-04-22/states-without-coronavirus-stay-at-home-order https://fee.org/articles/blue-states-have-been-hit-much-harder-by-covid-19-why/ https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/05/22/covid-19-is-hitting-democratic-states-harder-than-republican-ones https://fee.org/articles/texas-has-fewer-covid-cases-than-michigan-despite-nearly-20m-more-people-and-no-restrictions/ Reliable Data:https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
• Inflation Not Only Hurts, It Diverts
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  Axel Weber | Thursday, February 9, 2023

  “Inflation is in effect a hidden tax,” Thomas Sowell once wrote. “The money that people have saved is robbed of part of its purchasing power, which is quietly transferred to the government that issues new money.”