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Financial Repression Is Back as Euro Debasement Continues

04/16/2025 Mises Wire Thorsten Polleit

In June 2024, the European Central Bank (ECB) began lowering its key interest rate. Borrowing costs were reduced from 4.5 per cent to 2.5 per cent in March 2025—which, after accounting for the...

The Great Awakening: A Libertarian Interpretation

01/24/2025 Mises Wire Thorsten Polleit

Admittedly, it is not easy to recognize a turning point in history when it is unfolding right before your eyes, when you are a contemporary witness of events. It is far easier to label affairs as...

Fiat Money and Dark Forces at Work

01/01/2025 Mises Wire Thorsten Polleit

The Bible recounts how the Holy Spirit led Jesus into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. The devil appeared and first wanted Jesus to turn stones into bread. (In fact, Mises criticized...

Publications

The Global Currency Plot

02/16/2023 Thorsten Polleit

— from the Summary ... Democratic socialism—the ideology that dominates the world today—aspires to become a world state. The route toward it requires a single world currency to be created. That would undoubtedly create a dystopia. Might this become a

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The Euro Is a Frankenstein-Currency

09/09/2024 Thorsten Polleit

It may not have been created in the lab of a mad scientist, but the euro is still a manufactured, cobbled-together currency made from a number of national monetary units. Indeed, it is the perfect Frankenstein currency.

Rising Interest Rates and the “Great Reset” Bubble

02/05/2024 Thorsten Polleit

While the “Great Reset” involves an unholy alliance between governments and big businesses, implementing its policies is impossible without central banks suppressing interest rates. Now that rates are rising, people are finding firsthand the real costs of the “Great Reset.”

The Economic Wisdom of Antony C. Sutton’s The War on Gold

01/09/2024 Thorsten Polleit

Economist Antony C. Sutton understood one of the most fundamental economic truths: gold is money. Thorsten Polleit reviews Sutton’s classic book, The War on Gold.

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