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finpunk (64)in #economics • 9 years ago
Trade Restrictions Don't Make Sense: Importers And Exporters Are The Same People
There's just way too much rhetoric out of the last election against free trade that needs to stop. Tariffs and other trade restrictions will not make America great ...it will…
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cylonmaker2053 reblogged
finpunk (64)in #economics • 9 years ago
The Dark Side Of Enforcing Property Rights In Another Country
Property rights are the cornerstone of a healthy economy and critical to individual freedom. Without property rights there is little reason to invest in productivity, and so it's…
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cylonmaker2053 reblogged
finpunk (64)in #economics • 9 years ago
Economic Growth Is Not a Ponzi Scheme
There's all too much popular misconception that economic growth is "unsustainable" akin to a Ponzi scheme. This may be true for some types of growth, but certainly not from the…
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cylonmaker2053 reblogged
finpunk (64)in #bitcoin • 9 years ago
Bitcoin Is The Ultimate Currency Hedge For Volatile Economies
Bitcoin is proving to be the ultimate currency hedge for those stuck in volatile economies. Vinny Lingham, CEO of identity startup Civic, explains Bitcoin's 2016 price surge in…
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cylonmaker2053 reblogged
finpunk (64)in #bitcoin • 9 years ago
How Bitcoin Can Help Countries Like Nicaragua
Nicaragua is a beautiful country with a lively culture, great food, incredible coffee, and some of the best cigars in the world. Despite once being one of the richest countries…
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cylonmaker2053 reblogged
finpunk (64)in #travel • 9 years ago
@finpunk Goes To Nicaragua (Part 4): Laguna de Apoyo, Flor de Caña, and Christmas Fun
The last part of my trip to Nicaragua was simply amazing, and included a relaxing day on Laguna de Apoyo, a personal tour of Flor de Caña's distillery, steaks perfectly barbecued…
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cylonmaker2053 reblogged
finpunk (64)in #travel • 9 years ago
@finpunk Goes To Nicaragua (Part 2): Groceries, Donkeys, and Card Counting
The last four days in Nicaragua have been a ton of fun and a wonderful learning experience. There are few better ways to learn about the world than to get out into it! @finpunk…
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cylonmaker2053 reblogged
finpunk (64)in #travel • 9 years ago
@finpunk Goes To Nicaragua (Part 1)
Yours truly is en route to Nicaragua as I write this. My wife and I head there at least once a year to visit her family and enjoy the beautiful country next to its better-known…
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cylonmaker2053 reblogged
finpunk (64)in #economics • 9 years ago
Economics is “horrendously misguided” and obsessed with “completely unimportant things”
Jeffrey Sachs is one of the most respected growth economists in the world, a large part of that because so much of his work has been outside the Ivory Tower helping real people.…
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cylonmaker2053 reblogged
finpunk (64)in #ethereum • 9 years ago
Ethereum Classic Gets More Interesting: More Developers and a New Monetary Policy
Ethereum Classic (ETC) was one of the first major revolts of a successful cryptocurrency community, the point of contention being the hard fork bailout of The DAO. The core…
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cylonmaker2053 reblogged
finpunk (64)in #bitcoin • 9 years ago
A New Type of Hedge Fund Using Artificial Intelligence, Encryption, Crowdsourcing, and Bitcoin
Finance just gets more interesting by the day! Wired grabbed my attention this morning with "7,500 Faceless Coders Paid in Bitcoin Built a Hedge Fund’s Brain." The article talks…
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cylonmaker2053 reblogged
finpunk (64)in #food • 9 years ago
Predicting A New Consumer Revolution: The Plant-Based Diet
In "Moving Towards a Plant-Based Diet" I announced that my wife and I were embarking on a 75% vegetarian diet, pushing meat down to about 25% of our meals. Earlier this morning…
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cylonmaker2053 reblogged
finpunk (64)in #economics • 9 years ago
Stossel: Life is Fairer When People Are Free to Make Their Own Decisions
It's interesting that people need to be convinced that freedom is a decent concept. There's all too often a "but" tagged to the end of any statement about freedom being a good…
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cylonmaker2053 reblogged
finpunk (64)in #finance • 9 years ago
Some Thoughts on Personal Finance & Alt Lifestyles: A University Lecture I Never Gave
This was a final lecture I meant to give to my FINA 469 "Intro to Investments" course @UofSC over the summer, but ran out of time. After the usual curriculum getting into the…
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cylonmaker2053 reblogged
finpunk (64)in #economics • 9 years ago
Economics is a Very Dangerous Science
Economics is a very dangerous science precisely because it empowers smart people with complex tools to make policy prescriptions that often end up imposed on everyone. Economists…
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cylonmaker2053 reblogged
finpunk (64)in #bitcoin • 9 years ago
Bitcoin is Promoting Freedom in Latin America
ReasonTV recently published this cool video on "3 Ways Bitcoin is Promoting Freedom in Latin America." Entrepreneurs are using the cryptocurrency to bypass monetary controls…
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cylonmaker2053 reblogged
finpunk (64)in #economics • 9 years ago
Private Health Care Dominates Free Public Version in Rural India
A groundbreaking study published in the American Economic Review (AER) titled "Quality and Accountability in Health Care Delivery: Audit-Study Evidence from Primary Care in…
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cylonmaker2053 reblogged
finpunk (64)in #economics • 9 years ago
Rethinking Military Spending After Pentagon Caught Burying Evidence of Waste
The Washington Post reports that the "Pentagon buries evidence of $125 billion in bureaucratic waste," apparently suppressing the results of a study that points out back-office…
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cylonmaker2053 reblogged
finpunk (64)in #bitcoin • 9 years ago
BitLendingClub Closing and the Real Risks of p2p Bitcoin Lending
Bitcoin.com reports today that "Regulatory Pressure Forces BitLendingClub to Close," citing a letter to customers that said “regulatory pressures” have burdened operations and…
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cylonmaker2053 reblogged
finpunk (64)in #economics • 9 years ago
Decade of Negative Real Interest Rates and a Shrinking Middle Class
In "Decade of Negative Real Interest Rates: Who Benefited?" Mike "Mish" Shedlock tackles one of the biggest economic questions in the last decade: Who really benefited from all…
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