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Ryan McMaken takes a look at Rothbard’s seminal 1963 essay “War, Peace, and the State.”
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Alexander Salter and Joshua Hendrickson argue that the Fed’s actual institutional role is to backstop U.S. dollar hegemony.
Mark Thornton reviews John Mearsheimer’s Why Do Politicians Lie? and connects political deception abroad to the Fed-driven distortions now warping markets, money, and the...
Unfortunately, the Pope does not understand the role that monetary inflation plays in fueling AI’s excesses. If he did, he might lead a necessary...
Ryan McMaken takes a look at Rothbard’s seminal 1963 essay “War, Peace, and the State.”
The US fiat monetary regime not only has given us inflation and boom-and-bust cycles, but it also is the main contributor to the out-of-control...
The standard line among most economists is that deflation is as bad or even worse than inflation. In reality, the economy needs deflation now...
Ryan McMaken looks at the latest jobs numbers form the federal government and why so many workers and families appear to think the economy...
Overall, 64 percent of respondents sad that Trump’s decision to go to war with Iran was the wrong decision.
Systems do not collapse when they finally become unstable; they appear stable until the moment their failure can no longer be ignored.
Those who use Catholic social teaching to defend socialism forget Pope Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum, published in 1891, which strongly condemned socialism and defended...
What might be the process of a society moving from being unfree to being free? Here is one scenario.
The Shiller CAPE ratio has only been higher once in 150 years. The Buffett indicator is 2.5 standard deviations above trend. 40% of the...
Last week’s CPI report, and this week’s PPI report both showed price inflation surging to multi-year highs, and not just on oil prices.