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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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Competition Is Cooperation

"The pricing process is a social process. It is consummated by an interaction of all members of the society. All collaborate and cooperate, each in the particular role he has chosen for himself in the framework of the division of labor. Competing in cooperation and...

Anti-War Blog – “The world is so beautiful. Let me leave calmly…”

“That's it, mum, goodbye,” he is dying, dead, a Ukrainian soldier in his last moments caught on helmet camera makes his peace. The eight minutes leading up to his death have been shared on social media, a close combat struggle between him and his Russian counterpart....

Crucial Economic Calculation

"The advocates of totalitarianism consider 'capitalism' a ghastly evil, an awful illness that came upon mankind. In the eyes of Marx it was an inevitable stage of mankind’s evolution, but for all that the worst of evils; fortunately salvation is imminent and will free...

If You Read One Book This Year

Knowledge and Decisions by Thomas Sowell This new year, please take the time to read this book, one of the most important books for my thinking in my lifetime. It speaks to my observation on war being a collision of complex adaptive systems informed by “institutional...

Which Came First: The Individual or the Group?

"It is illusory to believe that it is possible to visualize collective wholes. They are never visible; their cognition is always the outcome of the understanding of the meaning which acting men attribute to their acts. We can see a crowd, i.e., a multitude of people....

2025 New Years Resolution: What is a Carnivore Diet? How to Get Started!!

https://youtu.be/tn_-gkaDcog Here is an excellent introduction to the diet which helped me lose 110 lbs. Check out Laura Spath on YouTube, videos like this did more for me than every doctors appointment I have ever had, and are free to watch. Hopefully RFK Jr. will...

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