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If you want to have a closer look into the psyche of the cryptocurrency speculation culture, now "mascotized" its entire culture in endless varieties of visual depictions of so-called "apes", please watch this entertaining video!

Question of the day, considering stashing away money for "ape behaviour" instead of immediate consumption or entertainment, is the crypto "ape behaviour" low time preference (❤️) or high time preference (😆) (per https://wiki.mises.org/wiki/Time_preference )?

Experimental Experiments! Meet Ape Tax! This is not a financial advice. Do your own research before blaming others.Ape Tax is a decentralized yield optimizer built on Fantom Opera Mainnet, BSC and ...

Will regulations ever be really about protecting the little ones? Hint: unlikely. And the latest still-developing example is about the lab-grown meat.

Lab-Grown Meat Is Coming to Your Supermarket. Ranchers Are Fighting Back. The U.S. Cattlemen's Association petitioned the USDA to declare that "meat" and "beef" exclude products not "derived from animals." --- Subscribe to our YouT...

Instead of dismissing the cryptocurrency phenomenon as a bubble all together, one should also recognize the incredible entrepreneurial drive for privatization of the production of money.

As Guido Hülsmann succinctly stated in his classical book "The Ethics of Money Production": "There is a strong case in both economic and ethical terms for the idea that money production should be wholly private."

The Ethics of Money Production | Jörg Guido Hülsmann This pioneering work by Jörg Guido Hülsmann, professor of economics at the University of Angers in France and the author of Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism, is the first full study of a critically important issue today: the ethics of money production.

Tubli Eesti!

How Estonia—Yes, Estonia—Became One of the Wealthiest Countries in Eastern Europe | Luis Pablo de la Horra The emergence and consolidation of growth-boosting institutions took hundreds of years in countries like the UK and the US. However, in recent decades we have seen that the right policies can significantly speed up economic development. Estonia is a paradigmatic example of this.

Warning to Tech-Utopians:

"Big Data" Isn't Enough to Make Socialism Work | Tho Bishop When sharing Bob Murphy's excellent article today on the Knowledge-Calculation Debate, one of the most common responses has been "Murphy makes a good case, but why does this really matter?" Beyond the value of grasping intellectual nuance, I think this debate has actually increased in real world imp...

There is, in fact, rough justice in the common quip that "we will recognize the rights of animals whenever they petition for them." - Said Rothbard.

Apart from private ownerships of companion or utility animals ought to be respected just like other private properties, unclaimed animals remain rightless. For their fate could be subject to the men who come to claim their use, be it peaceful or violent way. Any conflict regarding how they should be treated is men's conflict.

Until there is specie other than human come forward and fight for their rights, the rights of animals still remain our emotional fight among ourselves void of rational reason.

The "Rights" of Animals The assertion of human rights is not properly a simple emotive one, writes Murray Rothbard. Individuals possess rights not because we "feel" that they should, but because of a rational inquiry into the nature of man and the universe. In short, man has rights because they are natural rights. They are...

Sunday sound history: Hansa/The Hanseatic League

Estonian former prime minister Mart Laar once referenced to the era of the Hansa League as "that the key to the cooperation between Estonia and Germany". https://www.valitsus.ee/en/news/hansa-league-model-economic-cooperation-between-estonia-and-germany-21091999

And some historian says the Hanseatic League could be the first common market lead by German worked from mid-13th to 16th centuries. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UV51rAFqiLE&t=1064s

But how did this loose coalition of Flying Dutchman--capitalists emerged as an empire without a State?

Read more at: https://mises.org/wire/hanseatic-league-empire-commerce

Lubeck and the Hanseatic League: The Birthplace of the Common Market with David Abulafia 10 February 2016: In the first lecture of the 2016 History of Capitalism series, David Abulafia, Professor of Mediterranean History at Cambridge University, ...

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