Economics
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Economics
The American Consumer is About to Run out of Money
"Rolling Recession" about to get a lot bigger
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Economics
2024 Bull Fuel: Bitcoin's Next Cycle
Five Reasons Bitcoin's 2024 Bull Cycle Is Inevitable
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The Commoner
The Borrower on the Other Side of Treasuries is a Deadbeat
Why on God's green Earth would anyone lend this entity money?
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A Recession is Going to Pour Fuel on the Growing Fiscal Fire
People aren't confident in the US economy at the moment and are actively offloading US debt as a result.
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Economics
The Emergence of Bitcoin: An Austrian Renaissance
Given the current global economic backdrop of soaring debt levels, excessive deficit spending, emergent inflationary pressures, and financial uncertainty, the principles of Austria…
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The Commoner
The Fiat Endgame is Chaos
What we are witnessing now is a scenario so perplexing that it is completely borking the "irrational longer than you can stay solvent" trades.
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When Money Doesn't Work People Stop Working
This is an alarming trend that, if it is real, signals tough times ahead.
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Economics
Bitcoin, Scarcer Than You Think
The 19th-century gold rush serves as a compelling analogy for bitcoin's supply-demand dynamics and its ultimate use as a medium of exchange.
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Economics
The Case for Fiat
The fiat system is immoral and evil. It corrupts and robs; enriches the wealthy at the expense of everyone else; and allows the ever-creeping growth of government surveillance and…
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Economics
The Debt Whirlpool And The Bitcoin Lifeboat
Boomers and Gen X own approximately $126 TRILLION of assets. But despite their tremendous amount of wealth, they are in a precarious situation.
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Economics
BRICS: A Ghost Power?
Between August 22-24th, the coalition of countries known as BRICS met in Johannesburg, South Africa for their 15th annual summit. BRICS, standing for Brazil, Russia, India, China,…
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The Commoner
Issue #1382: Bitcoin Mining Should Be Incentivizing Reliable Base Load
Unfortunately, at the moment it is hard to build out more reliable energy infrastructure because the unreliable infrastructure is being heavily subsidized, which is artificially ma…
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