Interesting read that dives into the factors behind the strong economic growth during the tail end of the 19th century. One of the key insights that some will find fascinating is that during the despite the high money supply growth at the time (4.2% annually, and it was during the gold standard years), prices continued to fall drastically. Something the author attributes to a ton of reasons. Definitely worth checking out.

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Economic Growth with Price Deflation 1873–1896 ROGER ELWOOD SHIELDS : Roger Elwood Shields : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

A restored copy of an obscure, error-filled OCR scan of a 1969 typewritten manuscript. I took a blurry, error-filled scan of a 1969 dissertation an...

Cypher lost the plot the moment he convinced himself that living inside a comfortable illusion as a slave, trumped temporary discomfort, in reality, as a free man. Like so many today, he chose escapism, and that's exactly why cowards never build anything that lasts. They always cave when it matters. Freedom is incompatible with cowardice. Stop eating "Matrix" steaks. Go and do hard things instead.

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John 12:24-25 "Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal." Good morning 😇☀️☕ #gm

The fight for internet freedom is ultimately a fight for human agency itself. In a world where information is power and economic activity is freedom, the ability to communicate and transact privately is the ability to think and act freely. When we surrender these abilities for safety, convenience, or social approval, we surrender something essential to human dignity. View article →

If you cannot say no to digital ID, you cannot say no to anything the system demands. Your consent becomes automatic, your compliance assumed, your agency nullified. If you say yes to digital IDs, you're saying yes to financial surveillance, medical tyranny, and social credit systems, whether you realize it or not. You're saying yes to a world where the government has a kill switch on your entire existence. You're saying yes to the permanent end of privacy, autonomy, and dissent. The cruel irony is, once you say yes, you'll never be able to say no again because the system won't let you. View article →

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Even before I was fully clued up on all things finance and economics, taxes never made sense to me at all; but now that I have a better grasp of things they are actually even more irrational! Take property taxes for example, you own the house but still have to pay the man. What exactly are you paying for? Is owning property a crime or something?