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Nima Mahdjour
@economicsjunkie
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#Bitcoin advocate since 2011, investor, entrepreneur, consultant, #Iranian from #Berlin, #AnarchoCapitalism, #guitar, #BJJ, #gym, views are my own, not yours
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economics
8y
Why the US Dollar WON'T Collapse | Rebuttal to Mike Maloney and Stefan Molyneux
A rebuttal to "Why the US Dollar Will Collapse" with Mike Maloney interviewed by Stefan Molyneux on Freedomain Radio. Mike and Stef cover various economic issues from a classical/Austrian viewpoint
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economics
8y
The First US Money Was Fiat, Not Gold; The "Gold Standard" Is A Fiat Money System With A State Fixed Gold Price
We know from anthropological records that the first money in world history was credit money, in particular state credit money, aka fiat money, which is money introduced by a violent authority that imposes
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economics
9y
What Rand Paul Republicans & Libertarians Are Missing About Balanced Budgets
Libertarians & many people in Congress tend to view government budgets like household budgets, which is fundamentally flawed and results in some pretty bad recommendations. Here are the sources as
economicsjunkie
economics
9y
Could A Federal Job Guarantee Eliminate Unemployment? (#MMT For Conservatives - Part 4)
Part 4 of Exposing MMT for Conservatives The Federal Job Guarantee - What Heresy is This? Dylan Moore of the Volitional Science Network and Nima Mahjour of EconomicsJunkie.com go over the basics of libertarian
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economics
9y
Libertarian Warren Mosler: Keep Deficit & Eliminate All The Taxes (#MMT for Conservatives Part 3)
Dylan Moore of the Volitional Science Network and Nima Mahdjour of EconomicsJunkie.com welcome WARREN MOSLER to the Volitional Science Network. Warren is the founder of Modern Monetary Theory and the foremost
economicsjunkie
economics
9y
What You've Never Been Told about the Economy (#MMT For Conservatives - Part 2)
Part 2 of MMT for Conservatives Part 1 - Intro: Gold isn't money and the national debt is great Dylan Moore of the Volitional Science Network and Nima Mahjour of EconomicsJunkie.com go over the basics
economicsjunkie
economics
9y
Gold isn't money and the national debt is great (#MMT for Conservatives!)
Gold isn't money. The national debt is great. Federal surpluses crash the economy. Taxes don't fund spending. ...what is this nonsense? Trust us! It makes sense once you understand the pieces. Dylan and
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bitcoin
9y
The Bitcoin Bubble - Why Bitcoin Has Value (An MMT View)
Dylan Lawrence Moore of the Volitional Science Network and Nima Mahdjour of EconomicsJunkie.com discuss the "Bitcoin Bubble" and why bitcoin, or any cryptocurrency, has any value. What is the
economicsjunkie
austerity
9y
Why We Need a National Deficit & Why Austerity is Killing Greece
Dylan and I discuss why modern nations need national decifits through the lens of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), and what function it performs in society. I break down specific examples in history, explaining
economicsjunkie
economics
9y
Why Donald Trump Can't & Shouldn't Balance the Budget
My friend Dylan from the Volitional Science Network interviews me to discuss Modern Money Theory and why it is so dangerous to "balance the federal budget". It is typical for conservative
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ucberkeleyriots
9y
UC Berkeley Riots - Milo Yiannopoulos Protest - Interview with Eyewitness Nima Mahdjour
My friend Dylan at the Volitional Science Network interviews me about my experience at the UC Berkeley Riots which canceled the Milo Yiannopoulos speaking event on 2/1/2017. Source: ▶️ DTube ▶️ IPFS
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floridashooting
9y
Multiple Eye Witnesses Report More Than One Shooter in Parkland #FloridaShooting - BANNED BY GOOGLE
YouTube is censoring videos more than ever and Infowars has become one of their main targets. The internet giant pulled down this video on the Parkland, Florida school shooting, and according to CNN YouTube
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floridashooting
9y
BANNED ON YOUTUBE: #FloridaShooting Child Actor Flubs Scripted Lines In Coached TV Interview
YouTube is censoring videos more than ever and Infowars has become one of their main targets. The internet giant pulled down this video on the Parkland, Florida school shooting, and according to CNN YouTube
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floridashooting
9y
DEVASTATING PROOF! CNN Is Exploiting CHILD ACTORS To Push An Emotional Antigun Agenda!
The subsidized corporate propaganda network CNN, which has time and again faced disastrous backlash over its fraudulent coverage, is doubling down by abusing child actors to promote their antigun agenda.
economicsjunkie
gulfwar
9y
How The Crybully Corporate Media Lied To Slaughter 100,000+ Innocent Muslims
In 1990 nurse Nayirah testified about Iraqis ripping babies from incubators. The emotional story, plastered all over the media, was used as justification for the US to murder 100,000+ innocent muslims
economicsjunkie
nationaldebt
9y
Why The National Debt Doesn’t Matter
Why The National Debt Doesn’t Matter If you’ve read my post about Modern Monetary Theory you’ll understand that in a sovereign floating fiat money system (e.g. US dollar, Japanese yen, but not the Euro,
economicsjunkie
publicfinance
9y
How Government Budget Surpluses Cause Economic Depressions
In a sovereign floating fiat money system, in particular under balanced trade or a trade deficit, government deficits are the only way the private sector can accumulate net private saving. As I've argued
economicsjunkie
mmt
9y
How I Went From Austrian Economics To Modern Monetary Theory
With permission from Being Libertarian, I am reposting an important exclusive piece I wrote that lays out some fundamental changes in how I've come to understand the functioning of a fiat money economy,
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news
9y
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gold
10y
Empiricism Shatters the Barter Theory of Money
This might be interesting for fellow Bitcoiners: I came across an interesting writeup in The Atlantic: The Myth of the Barter Economy. It lays out how historical and anthropological evidence contradicts
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