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Free Speech Needs Decentralization

Governments are attacking free speech and privacy hard these days. We’ve got horrifying anti-speech laws in the U.K., Telegram CEO Pavel Durov arrested in France, and threats coming from governments all around that people who create platforms that make privacy accessible to regular people will be blamed and jailed for the actions of others.

We even have a Vice Presidential candidate here in the U.S. who has said, “no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech.”

There are all kinds of problems with these actions, and people need to fight back to hold onto their free speech rights and privacy.

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Rothbard’s America’s Great Depression, Chapter Seven

Chapter seven of the book attempts to explain Hoover’s interventionist policies and chart their progress in the period from 1920-1929.

Show notes here.

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Appearance on Spoken Words in New Mexico

One of the things I’m working on to promote libertarian values is working with the Free New Mexico Party, the state’s affiliate for the National Libertarian Party.

I’m the Vice Chair and the Secretary, and last week I sat down with the Chair, Dereck Scott, on the great web show Spoken Words in New Mexico.

You can find the show here, and I recommend checking out their other content, as well!

Dereck and I speak for over three hours about the difficulties facing the liberty movement in the U.S., including our worries about both Republican and Democratic policies.

Might as well plug the party website while I’m here, so:

https://freenewmexico.org

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Why Krugman Hates MMT

I had a fun thought the other day: Why is it that Keynesian shills like Paul Krugman usually don’t like Modern Monetary Theory?

After all, both of them promote the same irresponsible and destructive policies of massive government spending and interference with the market…

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This Is Democracy

Nothing too deep in this post, mostly some thoughts on the recent crackdowns in Britain against speech.

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Murphy and Newman on MMT

Very quick post here, but as a part of Mises University, the great Bob Murphy and Jonathan Newman did a fantastic talk about Modern Monetary Theory and some of the sticking points people walk into when they try to argue against it.

At the end of the talk, Dr. Newman mentions the book “The Theory of Idle Resources” by William H. Hutt. What he didn’t say is that the whole book is available free at the Mises Institute website.

Get your copy here!

Breaking down the fallacies and dangerous conclusions of MMT is one of the best things you can do today!

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MMT: Feeding the Economically Inferior Machine

I am pleased to say that the Mises Institute has published another one of my essays! This time, it’s an essay that organizes and crystallizes my thoughts about Modern Monetary Theory, specifically the negative effects of moving goods from the private sphere to the public sphere.

Find it at the Mises Institute website here.

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What’s Missing in Liberty Messaging?

Just some thoughts about liberty messaging. It’s widely available and usually free. You can find pro-liberty commenters across the whole spectrum, from hardcore anarchists to relatively soft and cuddly pro-freedom voices.

Yet less than one person in a hundred actually is convinced.

Why?

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There’s Always Another Awful Idea…

I was inspired by part of a Lew Rockwell speech that was posted at the Mises Institute website last week!

Today, I’m talking about the dangers of positivism in economics. Basically, in complex systems like the economy, you need a logical, causal framework to evaluate ideas. A purely positivist (i.e., each idea must be tested empirically) approach can be disastrous.

Why? Because empirical testing of uncontrolled systems can lead to counterintuitive and non-generalizable results!

The temptation to fiddle endlessly becomes a source of wealth for the fiddler and a source of poverty for everybody else.

Knob Dial GIFfrom Knob GIFs

Not only are there unlimited legions of bad ideas to “test,” there are an equally unlimited number of statistical tests to apply to the subsequent data, and a finite confidence interval means some of those statistical tests will give you false positives!

Anyway, check out the video up top, and the show notes here.

This video is available on Odysee and BitChute.

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MMT Fatal Flaws: Why Feed an Inferior Machine?

I’ve been reading a bit about Modern Monetary Theory lately, and one argument I’ve seen a few times is that inflation and taxation are merely methods to transfer goods from the “private sphere” to the “public sphere.”

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