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Ryan McMaken

@ryanmcmaken

2 months

Price inflation is NEVER caused by greed. It's always caused by a growing money supply. The money supply has grown big-time since 2020, and now we pay a lot more for food and housing. More:

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The "zero covid" fad is over in NZ:

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The moment when you knew 100% that Twitter would accept the offer.

Inverse Cramer (Not Jim Cramer)

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“They have no choice but to reject”

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For the blame-free-markets-for-everything crowd, a shortage in baby formula—one of the most regulated corporatist products—was caused by "capitalism." In truth, of course, the blame lies with protectionists and gov't programs like WIC and the FDA.

Baby Formula: Thank Protectionists and the FDA for the Shortage

With the shortage have come the usual half-baked bromides about "evil corporations" and how they aren't regulated enough. The real fault lies with welfare statists, Trump-style protectionists, and...

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"If you can imagine a twentieth century without communists, without Nazis, that’s very probably what we would have had without the [US entry into the] First World War" ~ Ralph Raico

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The US will add another 2 trillion $ to the total debt this year, and the US is now spending a trillion of your dollars on interest per year. And, there is no end in sight.

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3 years

“Africa doesn’t have the vaccines and the resources to fight COVID-19 that they have in Europe and the U.S., but somehow they seem to be doing better,” she said.

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3 years

States with the weakest lockdowns had the best economic growth since 2019.

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Reporter: was the half million dead children [due to the US starvation embargo of Iraq] worth it? Albright: Yes.

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2 years

With a new base in Cambodia, China has a whopping 2 extraterritorial bases now.

Quincy Institute

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2 years

There are approximately 750 U.S. military base sites abroad in 80 foreign countries and colonies.

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Powell says we're not in recession. I think he's right. I think we're more in a period like the fall of 2007 when numbers were looking bad, but the *really* bad news was still months away.

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2 years

War dissenters are branded "Putinists" by the foreign policy elites who casually flirt with nuclear war. But preferring negotiations to World War III hardly makes one a Putin sympathizer.

It's Time to Abandon America's Fetish for "Unconditional Surrender"

War dissenters are branded "Putinists" by the foreign policy elites who casually flirt with nuclear war. But preferring negotiations to World War III hardly makes one a Putin sympathizer.

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The bigtime downward revision in jobs isn't surprising for those who are actually paying attention.

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3 years

"As clinical studies from the U.S., Israel, and Qatar show—and many Americans can now personally attest—there is substantial evidence that people who are vaccinated can both contract and contribute to the spread of Covid-19."

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2 years

When the USSR invaded Afghanistan, few Americans were absurd enough to demand American companies in the USSR close themselves down. Now American brands flee foreign markets because the Twitter mob says so.

McDonald's Closes All Stores in Russia as Woke Russophobes Rage

The presence of American companies in foreign nations was once seen as a sign of American superiority and an instrument of American cultural power. Not anymore.

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Ryan McMaken

@ryanmcmaken

2 years

Bernanke said the same thing in February 2008 - *after* the recession had already started, according to the NBER.

unusual_whales

@unusual_whales

2 years

Fed's Bullard: there is not going to be a recession in the US.

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Ryan McMaken

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6 months

It's an "incredible stretch" if you ignore the fact that real wages declined for 25 months in a row during that period.

Heather Long

@byHeatherLong

6 months

The big picture: US unemployment has been below 4% for 27 months. That's an incredible stretch that hasn't happened since the late 1960s. Hiring has slowed in past year, but it's still encouraging: Labor force +1.3 million in the past year as more people look for work. # of

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2 months

We all know how this ends. The Feds spend 100 billion and not a single building is actually completed.

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2 months

WATCH: A massive part of Trump's 2nd-term agenda is to charter TEN new mega-futuristic cities in various states on federally-owned lands "Almost one-third of the landmass of the United States is owned by the federal government, with just a very, very small portion of that

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The secret service, the alleged elite of the "thin blue line" ignored warnings of a shooter and allowed the shooter to set up a sniper nest on a nearby roof. This level of competence is what we've come to expect from the overpaid, privileged members of "law enforcement."

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Ryan McMaken

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1 month

This week, the Fed hit the panic button and slashed the fed funds rate by 50 bps. History shows the Fed does this right before a recession, and Powell can't explain why "this time is different." More here with graphs:

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Ryan McMaken

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2 years

The police dept is 3 minutes away.

Chris Hayes

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2 years

When you put it that way

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In a normal universe, we have a name for this sort of monetary policy: it’s called “extreme dovishness” or “extremely accommodative.” In the bizarro world of 2021, it is anti-inflationary.

There's Nothing Hawkish about the Fed's New Tapering Plan

In a normal universe, we have a name for this sort of monetary policy: it’s called “extreme dovishness” or “extremely accommodative.” In the bizarro world of 2021, it is anti-inflationary.

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Ryan McMaken

@ryanmcmaken

3 months

Is this the part when the thin-blue-line bootlickers tell us now how Secret Service agents are such heroic and competent hard workers?

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3 months

How was a sniper with a full rifle kit allowed to bear crawl onto the closest roof to a presidential nominee

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3 years

@ThoBishop LOL. Imagine a conservative politician defying the Pentagon like this before 2021. Things are going way better than I thought they would!

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Ryan McMaken

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The Fed's target price-inflation rate went from zero percent to 2 percent and then to a "flexible" and "longer run" 2 percent. This means the 2-percent target is little more than a political slogan. More at :

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Ryan McMaken

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2 years

Does the Austrian version of money supply (TMS) provide insights? The gap between M2 and TMS does a pretty good jobs of identifying recessions - when the gap goes from + to -. It's also closely connected to yield curve inversions.

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2 years

As we sit down to Thanksgiving dinner, consider that before the 17th century, dining rooms didn't even exist, and families had few places to comfortably enjoy a meal at home. Then came industrialization, bigger houses, and "domestic sociability."

How the Middle-Class Dining Room Revolutionized Domestic Life

For families and friends gathering for Thanksgiving this year, many will assemble in a room called the "dining room." This is a modern luxury made possible by the bourgeois merchants of old.

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2 months

Fed Chairman Powell basically said today that a September rate cut is a done deal. The bad news is that Fed rate cuts usually come right before a recession starts. More at @mises and

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3 years

“The agency has been reluctant to make those figures public,” according to the Times, “because they might be misinterpreted as the vaccines being ineffective.”

CDC tells New York Times it hid COVID data for political reasons

Selectively cherry-picking ‘The Science’ to suit a political narrative is not ‘Following the Science.’ It is malpractice and fraud.

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Ryan McMaken

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2 months

America now has 66,000 fewer employed workers than it did a year ago. And the only growth in jobs is in part time jobs. Graphs and sources here:

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Ryan McMaken

@ryanmcmaken

7 days

Money-supply growth accelerated, year over year, in August by the largest amount in 23 months. The Fed now fears a recession, so expect more money growth going forward as the Fed tries to blow new bubbles. For graphs and more, see:

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Ryan McMaken

@ryanmcmaken

3 years

Like @jimbovard , I haven't forgotten the way conservatives and some libertarians began to absolutely LOVE the regime-and defend its every move-during the Bush years. Any opposition meant you were some kind of communist or terrorist.

Remember When Conservatives "Canceled" Anyone against the War on Terror? I Do.

Life in American changed twenty years ago after the 9/11 attacks. Many Americans became enraged at anyone who did not swear allegiance to Bush’s antiterrorism crusade.

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Ryan McMaken

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September's job "blowout" was driven by government jobs and part-time work. Private employment fell 463,000 from Sept 2023 to Sept this year. Government jobs, on the other hand, rose 598,000 during the same period. More @mises :

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Ryan McMaken

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2 years

Best explanation of NFTs.

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@avalonpenrose @rustybrick

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2 years

The Fed's defense of its incompetence is to say "well if we knew then what we know now." This is the technocracy in a nutshell.

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2 years

Fed governor Christopher Waller explains how the central bank fell behind: -The Fed made assurances (called forward guidance) in late 2020 that conditioned removing stimulus on labor market gains -The labor market was unusually difficult to forecast

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Police willingly attacked people for being on their own property. Do not doubt police will also take your guns and destroy your life for any reason the regime decides. Police care about their paycheck, not you.

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Gov. Tim Walz had his police use paintball guns to sh**t Minnesota residents if they broke curfew by being on their porches during C*V*D

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Open letter to the children of Gaza

Nicholas Kristof asks “What Can We Possibly Say to the Children of Gaza?” He gives poignant examples of Arab children in this territory who have suffered grievous physical and mental harm. All are...

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Ryan McMaken

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2 years

tHe FeD is Non PoLiTiCal!

Dr. Annelle Sheline

@AnnelleSheline

2 years

Wow. @stlouisfed published the graph on the left with two different Y axes to make it look as if China's defense spending outpaced the U.S. The graph on the right shows how the spending actually compares, with U.S. defense spending dwarfing all others

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3 years

"By comparison, vaccine-induced memory B cells are less robust, evolving for only a few weeks and never "learning" to protect against variants, researchers reported in a paper published on Thursday in Nature"

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3 years

"Natural immunity is reliable ... 27 times more effective than vaccinated immunity"

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Ryan McMaken

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4 months

Recession signal: Since Mar 2023 govt jobs have grown faster than private jobs. Last month government jobs up 2.7 percent while private employment was up 1.6 percent. Growth in govt jobs has been outpacing private jobs for the past 14 months.

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Ryan McMaken

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2 years

I keep seeing lame comments from libertarians about how the Disney special district is a "private city" with no govt oversight. Give me a break. It's the equiv. of a big shopping mall with private security that sells its own muni bonds. Nothing more.

Disney's Special District Is Not a "City-State" or "Private City"

One will occasionally hear from a libertarian activist that Disney World is some sort of model for totally private governance. This is a huge exaggeration of the reality.

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If we take a closer look at the latest jobs data we see the household survey shows the economy LOST jobs over the past year. Whenever this happens, the economy is either in recession or about to enter one. More here:

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Ryan McMaken

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5 months

Given that the number of employed people hasn't increased in 11 months, her claim that "people keep getting jobs" can only be true if she means "second jobs".

Heather Long

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5 months

JUST IN: Another big jobs report. The US economy added 272,000 jobs in May, blowing past expectations of ~190k. People keep getting jobs, esp. in healthcare., gov’t and hospitality. **Unemployment rate: 4% —> This is the first time at 4% or above since Jan. 2022* Wage gains:

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Ryan McMaken

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An appeals court has ruled Oberlin college must pay $31 mil for trying to destroy a small family business for "racism." Bill Anderson covered the whole sordid affair:

How Oberlin College Faculty Tried to Destroy a Small Business for Imaginary Crimes

Oberlin College faculty openly encouraged and assisted students in destroying the property and livelihood of employees and owners at Gibson's Market. The college claimed this was "freedom of speech."...

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Ryan McMaken

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3 years

Angelo Codevilla has died. RIP. He had some really solid hardcore anti-regime stuff in recent years. His column calling for the abolition of the CIA was quite good:

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Ryan McMaken

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2 months

This reminds me of how people were saying in 1985 that the Soviet Union was an economic powerhouse.

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no one is going to like this but... there's a decent chance that China, over the next 20-30 years becomes the new "America". people will be in total awe of its "streets paved in gold" and will learn Chinese to try to move there. seems farfetched, but wait.

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NRA: More government spending is the solution.

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Wayne LaPierre says the way to stop school shootings is to spend more money on law enforcement.

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This woman has been consistently wrong about everything.

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3 years

Prof Adam Finn, a government vaccine adviser, said over-vaccinating people, when other parts of the world had none, was "a bit insane, it's not just inequitable, it's stupid".

Covid: What’s the best way to top up our immunity?

Now we have some protection, do we need to keep boosting or can nature take its course?

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3 months

Read Zandi if you want to know the position of the easy-money-addicted criminal banker class.

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The clear message in today’s soft jobs report is the Federal Reserve needs to cut interest rates. They should have begun cutting rates months ago. Job growth is decidedly throttling back, unemployment is rising quickly, hours worked per week are low and falling, and temporary

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Ryan McMaken

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Ukrainians are ok with invasions of countries other than their own. Much like Americans. A press release from the US Army in 2008 (Poles supported the invasion also):

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Ryan McMaken

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3 years

Brendan Brown's book 'The Case Against 2% Inflation' is a fantastic blend of good economics, monetary policy history, and modern-day financial mkt analysis. Here's my review:

Why the Fed's 2 Percent Inflation Standard Is So Bad

The world of the 2 percent target is something truly new and worse than what came before. It’s not the same old monetary policy with slightly higher inflation targets.

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3 years

"Mark Thornton, a senior fellow at the Mises Institute, argues there is "no question" that the U.S. is in a housing bubble, but "where we are in the housing bubble is a different matter."

Is the US already in a housing bubble?

As soaring home prices raise concerns that the U.S. is in a housing bubble, the question becomes: Will prices come down with a whimper or a crash?

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Ryan McMaken

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2 years

Fed officials like Jerome Powell have long downplayed CPI as a price inflation measure in favor of the PCE index. But, much like CPI, the PCE measure is now also hitting 40-year highs.

The Fed's Favorite Price Index Just Hit the Highest Level Since January 1982

The personal consumption expenditures price index rose 6.8%, the biggest 12-month move since the 6.9% increase in January 1982.

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