#119: Red Balloons (2/8/23)

Links:

House ESG Working Group:
https://financialservices.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=408533

Meanwhile, Biden isn’t Getting Much Love:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/06/poll-americans-dont-feel-biden-impact/

Dems say no on Joe:
https://apnews.com/article/ap-norc-poll-biden-2024-presidential-prospects-c843c5af6775b4c8a0cff8e2b1db03f6

Chinese Spy Balloons:
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/06/politics/what-you-need-to-known-chinese-spy-balloon-what-matters

BP Scaling Back Renewables
https://dailycaller.com/2023/02/01/bp-goes-back-to-petroleum/

Free Beacon: Jobs, Doerr
https://freebeacon.com/energy/billionaire-backed-green-group-working-to-ban-gas-stoves-counts-chinese-government-official-as-top-adviser/

Podesta: This is Just the Beginning
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/podesta-linked-energy-executive-positioned-benefit-bidens-latest-climate-agenda

E&E News on Lithium:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/making-the-entire-u-s-car-fleet-electric-could-cause-lithium-shortages/

#119: Red Balloons (2/8/23)

Our sixteenth interview is with Jacob Soll, philosophy scholar (LA, USA) by Kristof K.P. Vanhoutte (Basel, Switzerland) Thursday, February 9, 2023

Welcome to Bookaholics. If there is one vice that all PICT faculty have in common, it’s our addiction to the written word. And while we crave the written word in all its forms, we have a special hunger for the book, perhaps the most enticing way in which words were ever put together. In this podcast, we will introduce you to some of our favorite books—recent books, relevant books, our own books of course, but also classic books that we just can’t seem to stop talking and teaching about.

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Bookaholics #16: Jacob Soll, Free Market: The History of an Idea

Peter St. Onge joined me today to talk about the 2023 banking crisis and whether it's the beginning of a steeper collapse. We also talk about the threat of a CBDC, Austrian business cycle theory, the role of interest rates in an economy, and what a free market banking system would look like. 

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Ep. 104 Is This the Start of a Steeper Financial Collapse? with Peter St. Onge, P.h.D.

With commercial banks exposed by the recent bailouts, Americans question whether “their money” is truly safe despite the promises of FDIC insurance.

Jeff and Bob walk through the mechanics of how a full reserve bank could work in a truly free market based on the concepts and taxonomy of Mises’s Theory of Money and Credit.

Mises's A Theory of Money and Credit: https://Mises.org/TMC
Bob's study guide to A Theory of Money and Credit: https://Mises.org/HAP388a
John Cochran, 'The Safest Bank the Fed Won't Sanction': https://Mises.org/HAP388b

The Human Action Podcast

How Banking Could Work

Can a government regulatory system be reformed? In a word, no. The free market is always the best regulator of quality and safety.

Narrated by Millian Quinteros.

Audio Mises Wire

Regulation in the Free Market: It’s Not What Most People Believe | Antti Takala

Progressives claim that profits are an unjust transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich. In reality, entrepreneurs earn profits by directing resources from less valued to more valued uses to satisfy consumer needs.

Narrated by Millian Quinteros.

Free-Market Profit Comes From Voluntary Exchange, not Exploitation | Frank Shostak

Is charity a right held by everyone or should charity be confined to private, voluntary action within a free market? David Gordon argues for the latter.

Narrated by Millian Quinteros.

What Price Charity? | David Gordon

Recorded 28th and 29th April 2002. Concept album about working in a fictional fashion boutique. Recorded live.

hate the player, hate the game
everyone is to blame
gullible demographics (give the people what they want)
you'll do nothing of the sort (genocide)
this is how things are sold (economics lecture - education kink)
how do you know how the fashion industry works? (i broke it)
what if an4l cvnt did an unplugged set?
your favourite autistic guitarist returns with another banger

Steve Layout - False Advertising Degrades Women

We interrupt these wars to bring you a Senate hearing with Bernie Sanders calling the shots.  I'm still recovering from the shock of hearing a person with a Danish accent utter that much nonsense.  Obviously they're not all fine upstanding radical leftists like almost everyone I know in Denmark!

If you've missed the proceedings, the upshot is that half of the expenditures for health care costs in the US these days goes for buying prescriptions of Ozempic, the new, extremely popular weight loss drug from Novo Nordisk.  The reason it's so expensive is because the US government doesn't believe in regulating monopolies, and capitalism says charge whatever they'll pay -- it's basic supply and demand, after all.

Whatever They'll Pay (Ballad of Lars Fruergaard Joergensen)

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incl. Sakitto Menda related side-projects. 
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