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Japanese debt-slavery: more dropping dead from overwork

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“Japanese employees work significantly longer hours than their counterparts in the US, Britain and other developed countries. Japan’s employees used, on average, only 8.8 days of their annual leave in 2015, less than half their allowance, according to the health ministry. That compares with 100% in Hong Kong and 78% in Singapore.”

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/05/japanese-woman-dies-overwork-159-hours-overtime

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America’s Diminishing Economic Liberty

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“75.1 is America’s lowest score in the twenty-plus years that the Index has been published.  The United States is ranked #17 in the latest Index. We’re only in the ‘Mostly Free’ category, behind Luxembourg and the Netherlands and tied with Denmark.”

Read more: https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2017/02/15/americas-diminishing-economic-liberty/

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The meteoric rise of passive investing: the “greatest bubble ever”?

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“Given the power passive strategies have rapidly accrued, perpetuating blind faith could prove devastating.”

Read more: https://latest.13d.com/has-the-meteoric-rise-of-passive-investing-generated-the-greatest-bubble-ever-257200fe5caf

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John Hussman: How to Wind Down a $4 Trillion Balance Sheet

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“If one repeatedly learns that feeding a beast can briefly appease it, but predictably makes it more enormous, savage, and unstable, it is best to remember the lesson. Instead, central bankers have doomed the world to learn that lesson again.”

Read more: https://www.hussmanfunds.com/wmc/wmc170619.htm

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Obamacare for some: 49% price hike since 2014, premiums of $14,300

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“Millions of Obamacare customers who do not qualify for financial aid to lower the cost of their health insurance — or who opt not to apply for such assistance — pay the full cost of coverage for their plans.  While the Republican Obamacare replacement bill pending in Congress would increase the number of people who would qualify for subsidies, the bill is also expected to increase average premiums over the next two years higher than they would be under Obamacare.”

Read more: http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/11/these-folks-dont-get-obamacare-subsidies-now-and-it-is-really-costing-them.html

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On the Rio Grande, Commerce Survives by the Honor System

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“We devote impressive money and manpower to the fight against illegal immigration, but meanwhile, in Big Bend, one can find a modest example of free enterprise defying borders.”

Read more: https://fee.org/articles/on-the-rio-grande-commerce-survives-by-the-honor-system/

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The Venezuelan Crisis Is Due to Economic Ignorance

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“The worst part of Venezuela’s tragedy is that it was so obviously predictable. Economists familiar with the work of Ludwig von Mises understood the necessary results of socialist policies. A sound money and freely floating prices provide a society with functioning markets that deliver the goods to the people. The market economy is true populism.”

Read more: http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=9070

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Peter Schiff, Trumpcare: Different Plan, Same Problems

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“A new form of insurance that this law may create: A policy that would pay for health insurance premiums if the user ever got sick enough to need them.  Such insurance would be very cheap, as the maximum exposure to the insurance company is only 130% of the premium for a standard health insurance policy.  In the end, the only people buying health insurance would be those who can buy it for free using their tax credits and really sick people for whom insurance premiums are cheaper than their medical bills.   But as insurance companies lose money on the latter group, they will be forced to raise their premiums on the former.  This puts us right back in the box we are stuck in with Obamacare.”

Read more: http://www.europac.com/commentaries/trumpcare_different_plan_same_problems

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Bringing back the Somali shilling

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“One famous answer to the riddle of fiat money is that governments use force to ensure that fiat money is valued. But this can’t be the case in Somalia: it hasn’t had a government since 1991, yet shillings continue to be accepted.”

Read more: http://jpkoning.blogspot.ca/2017/03/bringing-back-somali-shilling.html

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John Hussman: The Most Broadly Overvalued Moment in Market History

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“As long as investors are comfortable with expected S&P 500 10-12 year total returns of less than 1% annually, with likely interim losses on the order of 50-60%, investors are free to label this situation as ‘fairly valued’ or with any other phrase they wish.”

Read more: https://www.hussmanfunds.com/wmc/wmc170306.htm

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