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Movie Theater Stocks Plummet as Internet Media Threatens to Crush Hollywood

by James Holbrooks | Aug 4, 2017 | Blog

The movie theater industry is in trouble. Box office bombs and the changing manner in which people consume their entertainment have sent their stocks plummeting. From the Los Angeles Times on Tuesday: “AMC Entertainment Holdings, the world’s largest movie...

The Story of Gold and Bitcoin: Bulls Make Money and Pigs Get Slaughtered

by Mike Swanson | Jul 17, 2017 | Economics, Featured Articles

There is nothing wrong with being a bull in the stock market or a bear for that matter either. Nothing at all in fact. It's about seeing the trend and getting aligned with it. But being a pig in a finanical market will eventually lead one to the slaughterhouse. It's...

The Killer App Of Decentralized Law

by Zack Sorenson | Jul 15, 2017 | Blog

Anarchy, decentralized law, call it what you will. The key benefit of anarchy, from both the left and right wing perspectives, is that the cost of enforcement is integrated into the form of the law. If a certain punishment is too expensive to enforce, then the market...

The Market: Bootleg NES Classics Fill Demand Nintendo Ignored

by James Holbrooks | Jul 13, 2017 | Blog

Back in April, Nintendo announced it would cease production of the NES Classic Edition, a miniature version of the original Nintendo console that comes pre-loaded with 30 old school games, even though the system has been wildly popular. In an article titled...

The Fed Can’t Cure the Problems They Cause

by Ron Paul | Jun 19, 2017 | Economics, Featured Articles

The Federal Reserve claims it can continue "tightening" -- even though it is still leaving interest rates at historically low levels -- and begin unwinding its balance sheet, because the economy is "improving" and "will continue to improve." But that is only true if...

Austria Found a Way to Tax Google Searches and Social Media Posts

by James Holbrooks | May 1, 2017 | Blog

Austria — Highlighting the difficulty both public and private establishments can have when it comes to adapting methods in the digital age, it was reported Monday that one government is now trying to tax social media companies. From a report by Bloomberg:...

Facebook Under Fire for Allegedly Selling Emotionally Vulnerable Kids’ Data to Advertisers

by James Holbrooks | May 1, 2017 | Blog

Less than two months after announcing it would begin using artificial intelligence tools in its marketing arm, Facebook is now being accused of letting advertisers target emotionally vulnerable children. According to The Australian, a 23-page leaked document...

A Rising Stock Market Does Not Signal Economic Health

by Steven Horwitz | Dec 11, 2016 | Economics, Featured Articles

The headlines tell us that the Dow Jones is up around 1,000 points since Donald Trump won the election on November 8th. The conventional wisdom is that this shows how much confidence people have in Trump’s ability to generate a healthy American economy. The argument...

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Yes, Minister Forever and Forever

Occam's Razor often reveals the easiest answer to a wicked problem. Take a half hour to watch the video below from the every entertaining staff at T.Rex. Yes, T.Rex makes some of the best holsters on Earth for all your social work needs. In the end, the state is built...

[GUEST] IAN PROUD, Fmr. British Diplomat to Russia – Is the end of war near? New Episode of the Kyle Anzalone Show

Host Kyle Anzalone talks with former British diplomat Ian Proud.

Horton Debates Mossad Chief

Seriously. Piers Morgan had me on with John Kiriakou, The Dersh and Danny Yatom, the former head of Israeli intelligence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwCTktxy0ho

Paine on War

"It may with reason be said, that in the manner the English nation is represented, it signifies not where this right resides, whether in the Crown, or in the Parliament. War is the common harvest of all those who participate in the division and expenditure of public...

Keaton Weiss: Israeli Ministry of Defense running US Middle East Policy — New Episode of the Kyle Anzalone Show

Keaton Weiss, from Due Dissidence, joins the Kyle Anzalone Show to discuss the US-Israel relationship.

Army Fiasco Train in the 21st Century

I was astonished in 2009 when I saw the cancellation of the Future Combat System contract to usher in the next generation of armored vehicles. The Army cancelled the billions-dollar program and got to witness the Army continuing to burns through tens of millions a...

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The Fake China Threat and Its Very Real Danger

by Joseph Solis-Mullen

Today the front pages and bookstores are filled with tales of the so-called "China Threat." From spy balloons to Fentanyl pipelines, genocide to dreams of world domination: CHINA! But is it all true? Is any of it? Now, for the first time, the speciousness of these and...