WATCH The Vin Armani Show LIVE at 10am PST (1pm EST). In the first hour, Vin discusses current events related to your liberty and takes a deep dive into the recent passage of the CLOUD Act that was snuck into the omnibus spending bill.
In the second hour, we are joined by Vin’s long-time friend, Jordan Harbinger. Jordan is a Wall Street lawyer turned talk show host, social dynamics expert, and entrepreneur. After hosting a top 50 iTunes podcast for over a decade that enjoyed nearly four million downloads a month at its zenith, Jordan has embarked on a new adventure: The Jordan Harbinger Show, where he deconstructs the playbooks of the most successful people on earth and shares their strategies, perspectives, and insights with the rest of us.
WATCH livestream at 10am PST (1pm EST) below. In the first hour, Vin discusses news that affects your liberty – the political fallout from the Florida school shooting, latest cryptocurrency news, statists hate Uber and free markets. And, in the second hour, MC Laubscher is here to talk about building wealth outside of Wall Street and away from the tax man.
M.C. Laubscher is a wealth strategist, educator, and financial freedom fighter. He is the President and CEO of Valhalla Wealth Financial and creator and the host of the popular business and investing podcast, Cashflow Ninja. His mission is to help as many people as possible eliminate the control banks and financial institutions have over their lives by building their wealth in a variety of ways outside of Wall Street. He believes the best way to achieve this in the Information Age, is by reclaiming the banking function in your own financial life through structuring an efficient cash flow management system and creating and building assets that provide multiple streams of income.
WATCH livestream at 10am PST (1pm EST) below. This week we welcome Rick Falkvinge to the show to talk about the current state of Bitcoin after the Bitcoin Cash fork.
Rick Falkvinge is the founder of the first Pirate Party and a campaigner for next-generation civil liberties and sensible information policy. In particular, he stresses how the copyright industries work in collusion with Big Brother hawks to erode or eliminate the parts of Internet that guarantee our civil liberties. Rick recently dubbed himself “Bitcoin Cash CEO” and has been an outspoken thought-leader during the tumultuous Bitcoin schism of this last year.
Happy New Year! Watch the live broadcast of the Vin Armani Show today at 1pm EST (10am PST). This week, Vin welcomes Jeff Berwick back to the show to discuss the state of cryptocurrency. Jeff Berwick is an anarcho-capitalist entrepreneur and activist. He is the founder of The Dollar Vigilante and host of Anarchast. Jeff is also the organizer of the annual Anarchapulco conference, which will be held this year February 15th-18th at the Princess Resort in Acapulco, Mexico.
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In this video, Vin Armani talks about the approaching agenda of taxing robots as if they’re the same as labor because they replace jobs. How many jobs did Quickbooks kill? Should business owners still pay payroll taxes as if they still had a bookkeeper? All it does is tax the entrepreneur for deploying tools.
In this video, Erik Voorhees explains how he got into Bitcoin and why cryptocurrency will separate money from the State. Voorhees believes the current monetary system has serious systemic problems with counter-party risk, that the Federal Reserve System is “fraudulent” and advocates “the separation of money and state.” He keeps his assets and finances in Bitcoin, and is an outspoken opponent of taxation.
“The separation of money and state will be the great achievement of cryptocurrecy…Not by getting enough people to vote on it because that will never happen. But just by providing an alternative in the marketplace and for that alternative to win over time.”
This could make Nevada a hub for blockchain startups and it certainly offers agorist opportunities. In this video, Vin Armani examines a brand new law in his home state of Nevada that creates a free-trade zone for cryptocurrencies and other blockchain applications exempting them from regulations. The law prohibits taxing and regulating blockchain businesses. Check out the details below:
In this video, Vin Armani interviews Jack Spirko of The Survival Podcast about how preparedness and self-sufficiency feeds his political philosophy as an anarcho-libertarian voluntaryist. Spirko’s 5-day-a-week podcast is about managing his homestead in Texas, practical prepping, permaculture and self-reliance. It receives a remarkable 150,000 downloads per day.
In this video, Vin Armani discusses who is behind the recent Airbnb bans in several cities and states. Forcing heavy regulations, including high minimum wage laws, onto hotels has made them too expensive for the average person. Airbnb has created opportunities for both entrepreneurs and middle-class vacationers, but the cities are siding with the hotel lobby to violate fundamental property rights.
In this video, Vin Armani explains why almost everyone is wrong about Elon Musk’s alleged tax subsidies or “corporate welfare” for his businesses Tesla Motors and Battery, Solar City, and Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, better known as SpaceX. LA Times claims Musk receives $4.9 billion in “subsidies”. Watch to learn why this claim is wrong and widely misunderstood.
In the video below, after a short Australian propaganda video sponsored by the banks, Vin Armani breaks down signs the establishment agenda for a cashless society is moving forward full steam ahead moving into 2017.
Australia looks set to follow in the footsteps of Venezuela and India by abolishing the country’s highest-denomination banknote in a bid to crack down on the “black economy”.
Speaking to ABC radio on Wednesday, Revenue and Financial Services Minister Kelly O’Dwyer flagged a review of the $100 note and cash payments over certain limits as the government looks to recoup billions in unpaid tax.
Monday’s midyear budget update will include the appointment of former KPMG global chairman Michael Andrew to oversee a black economy taskforce. The black economy accounts for 1.5 per cent of GDP, given many cash payments are untaxed.
Gizmodo recently wrote a piece titled India’s Prime Minister Plans for Cashless Society:
Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India, has an economic firestorm on his hands following his decision to ban the 500 and 1,000 rupee notes. In his monthly address on Sunday, Modi took his ambitions further with a call for a cashless society.
According to a translation by Reuters, Modi said, “I want to tell my small merchant brothers and sisters, this is the chance for you to enter the digital world.”
The ban has removed 80 percent of the country’s currency from circulation and brought commerce to a virtual standstill. But rather than backing up, it appears that Modi is doubling down. “We can gradually move from a less-cash society to a cashless society,” he told listeners.
And the EU already axed the 500 euro note after a successful propaganda campaign that labeled the note the “bin Ladin” to make seem like a dirty weapon for terrorists. Fortune wroteThe End of the 500 Euro Note Could Lead to a Cashless Economy:
After months of heavy deliberation, the European Central Bank decided in April to phase out the €500 banknote in an effort to curb terror financing and other illegal activities.
The bank announced plans to end production of the €500 note—worth $574—by the end of 2018, though bills in circulation will be taken as legal tender.
The note, also dubbed the Bin Laden, is rarely used by the general public. About 60% of Europeans say they’ve never seen one—but has been used to evade taxes, in terrorist operations, and other illegal activities. …. “Eliminating the bank note could help temper criminal activity, but in reality the implications are much broader,” analysts from Stratfor wrote in a February research note. “The idea is just the most recent step in an ongoing process moving Europe, and indeed the world, closer to an entirely cashless economy.”
The cashless society is also coming to the United States with former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers recommending “killing the $100 bill” in The Washington Post:
What should happen next? I’d guess the idea of removing existing notes is a step too far. But a moratorium on printing new high denomination notes would make the world a better place.
On this segment of The Vin Armani Show, we are joined by our friend Peter Kallman, a Mises Institute Ambassador, about using agorism to live free and starve the state. Also how technology has made black and gray markets safe and accessible.
The Mises Institute, founded in 1982, teaches the scholarship of Austrian economics, freedom, and peace. The liberal intellectual tradition of Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973) and Murray N. Rothbard (1926-1995) guides them. Accordingly, they seek a profound and radical shift in the intellectual climate: away from statism and toward a private property order.
