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Politicians and central bankers invoke “contagion” to demand more power and money, while their interventions cause the very fragility they decry.
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Pundits are claiming that the demise of the Washington Post will weaken democracy and provide a boost for government corruption. As usual, the pundits...
Even as much of the political world is trying to direct us to socialism, the failures of that system are not hidden. There is...
New scholarly work is appearing regularly in the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics. Here are some articles from the latest issue.
Politicians and central bankers invoke “contagion” to demand more power and money, while their interventions cause the very fragility they decry.
Politicians and central bankers invoke “contagion” to demand more power and money, while their interventions cause the very fragility they decry.
The standing myth about AI is that it will put everyone out of work and leave the Marxian Reserve Army of Labor. The other...
Portugal’s Estado Novo, which dominated politics for more than 30 years there, and was firmly anti-capitalist. It has been 50 years since Estado Novo’s...
Bob walks through a recent WIRED video on “the economics behind the Great Depression,” correcting its claims on lax regulation, Hoover’s alleged inaction, the...
While the Fed continues its “two percent” charade, the central bank has been inflating the US economy into ruin. The latest Fed capers will...
Historian Richard Hofstadter was a well-known progressive, but his take on Abraham Lincoln certainly differs from the hagiographic approach most US historians take toward...
For 150 years, Thanksgiving has been primarily an apolitical holiday that’s really about family fun and eating a huge meal.
A satirical essay from a 1978 classroom, speculating about what it would cost to become Santa.
Warren Harding provides a case for how lies and myths—in the name of the truth—can be centralized and become the dominant narrative for generations,...