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    Hitler Joins Gun Control Debate, But History Is In Dispute

    http://www.stephenhalbrook.com/article-nazilaw.pdf "On February 28, the Hitler regime persuaded President Paul von Hindenburg to issue an emergency decree, based on Article XLVIII of the Constitution....The decree authorized the government to suspend the constitutional guarantees of personal...
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    How to assess China's military capabilities

    That has a lot to do with the defense contracting system and the budget process, did you know a simple machine tool in the army costs $1,000? I agree that we overspend on defense, but the problems that the Defense Department is facing in spending cuts are more structural rather than idiocy. If...
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    Could Germany Have Won WWII?[W:513]

    Sorry about that, a little of a necro post if I may add. If you are interested, you can PM me and I could give you a lot of the literature dealing with that aspect of the war.
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    Could Germany Have Won WWII?[W:513]

    https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/kent-csi/vol6no4/pdf/v06i4a07p.pdf The logistics of Barbarossa were simply unfeasible, what Hitler did was change the time required to defeat the Soviet Union so logistical limitations didn't apply. Capturing Moscow has no...
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    Functional Finance, Full Employment and the Freedom Budget

    You have yet to explain why, basic Austrian theory is that an increase in the quantity of money is inflation by definition which is why there is a correlation between velocity of circulation and the quantity of money. The reason why I posted the paper is because the model is built on...
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    After Peak Oil, What does the future hold?

    http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/2005/RAND_MG414.pdf http://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/2006/R3357.pdf
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    Functional Finance, Full Employment and the Freedom Budget

    Excuse me, just noticed this post Thanking someone for contributing to a discussion is different from accepting someone as an intellectual partner. Also he was far from schooling everyone, notice how he stopped replying around the 7th page. Every point he had to make (inflation not created by...
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    Functional Finance, Full Employment and the Freedom Budget

    If sourcing is offensive to you, that's not my problem, it's been a standard in academia for years now. Another thing, MMT argues that there is no problems with a deficit, you have constantly linked to Bill Mitchell in the past who advocates government spending. I was lazy, but if I wanted to...
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    Functional Finance, Full Employment and the Freedom Budget

    Based on a flawed methodology of economics, once a government imposes a tax on the private sector, it could appear on the government budget as a deficit, which includes unpaid taxes! Or, since we are dealing with an accounting method, we start off with the accounting equation which is the basis...
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