Emile Phaneuf III
Emile is a Research Associate for the Center for Market Education. His articles and essays have been published in several languages by Zero Hedge, Quoth the Raven, Bitcoin Magazine, Nasdaq, MSN, Independent Institute, Center for Market Education, Procesos de Mercado, Instituto Mises Brasil, and have been featured in The New York Times, The Japan Times, The Economic Times, RealClearPolicy, RealClearMarkets, RealClearHealth, and The Future of Freedom Foundation.
Emile spent over a decade working in international business development around the world, first for the World Trade Center Arkansas, then in senior-level export management roles based in the United States and New Zealand for manufacturers in both the mining and food and beverage industries. As a younger man, he served as a Security Forces member in the United States Air Force, stationed in the United States and Japan. He holds a Master’s (double degree) in Economics from OMMA Business School Madrid and from Universidad Francisco Marroquín as well as an MA in Political Science and a BA in International Relations from the University of Arkansas. He is an ambassador of the Free Cities Foundation and member of the Mont Pelerin Society.
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CBDCs: A Weapon for Debanking the Banked
“Even if you think that a CBDC is a good idea, consider that its power may be turned against you when the political pendulum shifts in your direction and your views or activities are suddenly considered taboo or illegal by those in power.” ~ Emile Phaneuf III
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Decentralization and Bitcoin
“Bitcoin itself is a currency that might best be considered existing in a state of anarchy.” ~ Emile Phaneuf
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Cypherpunks, Galt’s Gulch, and Bitcoin
“Whatever one’s view on Rand, there is no denying her strong influence on the early Cypherpunks who ‘wrote code’ in a decades-long attempt to realize some cyberspace version of the laissez-faire capitalism that she boldly advocated for in real space.” ~ Emile Phaneuf
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Hayek and Bitcoin
“By seemingly enormous coincidence, Satoshi (assuming he was unaware at the time), would have probably been delighted to learn that in Hayek’s same ‘sly roundabout way’ video interview, he held up a copy of The Times newspaper and declared: ‘I read this everyday.’ Great minds think alike.” ~ Emile Phaneuf
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The Future Will Be Flatter than Ever
“Thomas Friedman declared in his 2005 book The World is Flat, that the world is flat. This “flattening” (or leveling of the playing field, as we might think of it) continues today in radically new ways that Friedman may not have imagined.” ~ Emile Phaneuf
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Mises’s Regression Theorem, Bitcoin, and Subjective Value Theory
“If value is subjective, and if a medium of exchange is a good like any other, then how can we say that a good could not first be valued by some person somewhere as a medium of exchange rather than for some other purpose beforehand?” ~ Emile Phaneuf III
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CBDCs: A Weapon for Debanking the Banked
“Even if you think that a CBDC is a good idea, consider that its power may be turned against you when the political pendulum shifts in your direction and your views or activities are suddenly considered taboo or illegal by those in power.” ~ Emile Phaneuf III
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Decentralization and Bitcoin
“Bitcoin itself is a currency that might best be considered existing in a state of anarchy.” ~ Emile Phaneuf
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Cypherpunks, Galt’s Gulch, and Bitcoin
“Whatever one’s view on Rand, there is no denying her strong influence on the early Cypherpunks who ‘wrote code’ in a decades-long attempt to realize some cyberspace version of the laissez-faire capitalism that she boldly advocated for in real space.” ~ Emile Phaneuf
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Hayek and Bitcoin
“By seemingly enormous coincidence, Satoshi (assuming he was unaware at the time), would have probably been delighted to learn that in Hayek’s same ‘sly roundabout way’ video interview, he held up a copy of The Times newspaper and declared: ‘I read this everyday.’ Great minds think alike.” ~ Emile Phaneuf
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The Future Will Be Flatter than Ever
“Thomas Friedman declared in his 2005 book The World is Flat, that the world is flat. This “flattening” (or leveling of the playing field, as we might think of it) continues today in radically new ways that Friedman may not have imagined.” ~ Emile Phaneuf
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Mises’s Regression Theorem, Bitcoin, and Subjective Value Theory
“If value is subjective, and if a medium of exchange is a good like any other, then how can we say that a good could not first be valued by some person somewhere as a medium of exchange rather than for some other purpose beforehand?” ~ Emile Phaneuf III