No doubt, a large influx of newly discovered whatever it is you base your currency on would cause inflation as it did in your Spanish Price Revolution. But, at this point, it’s rather unlikely we’ll discover a new source of untapped gold, silver, uranium, etc. without mining asteroids (and even then we’re more likely to end up with nickle). The key, however, is to take the money supply out of the hands of politicians and apparatchiks who have a “vested interest” in devaluing the currency to support their explicit and hidden spending practices while maintaining some reasonable “store of value” in that which the currency denotes (e.g., unlike Bitcoin).
Of course market concentration exists, and has an effect on prices. It just isn’t a major factor in inflation. Return to the gold standard (or some other commodity in relatively short supply, maybe uranium), and see what happens to it.
I didn’t say it was limited to the federal government (thanks to the 14th amendment). However, you don’t have freedom to assemble in someone else’s living room. And freedom to speak does not imply others must support your speech be they newspapers, television stations, or social web sites. And the threats are real enough, otherwise jewish students wouldn’t be warned to take their classes remotely.
I’m surprised nobody has made the case that the protesters are giving “aid and comfort” to terrorists, that terrorists are enemies of the united states, and therefore protesters are engaging in treason.
Yes and no: when there is an imbalance in buyers and sellers, the price moves. Most corporate elites are paid in stock (for the vast majority of their income/wealth), and thus when the stock goes down, so do their holdings. Further, many bonuses have a stock price components, and executives are evaluated by their boards and ultimately their stockholders based on what happens to the stock price. Shareholder capitalism!
Those are rights against the government, not private institutions. The students can protest investments by their university by withdrawing and voting with their feet. Alumni can protest by withholding donations, etc. None of these acts require threats of violence, seizing buildings, blocking access to classes, or in particular, threatening fellow students for acts in which they are not complicit.
No doubt, a large influx of newly discovered whatever it is you base your currency on would cause inflation as it did in your Spanish Price Revolution. But, at this point, it’s rather unlikely we’ll discover a new source of untapped gold, silver, uranium, etc. without mining asteroids (and even then we’re more likely to end up with nickle). The key, however, is to take the money supply out of the hands of politicians and apparatchiks who have a “vested interest” in devaluing the currency to support their explicit and hidden spending practices while maintaining some reasonable “store of value” in that which the currency denotes (e.g., unlike Bitcoin).