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The Fed's Money Supply Measures: The Good News—and the Really, Really Bad News

Blog03/06/2021

Here's a likely reason the Fed has chosen to hide its data on government deposits: the explosion of Treasury deposits at the fed “fuels … suggestions that the Fed is directly financing the government [and] foster[s] uncertainty about central bank independence.”

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The V-Shaped Recovery Never Happened

Blog03/06/2021

Some may remember all that talk about a "V-shaped recovery" last year. That was back when we were being assured that just a few weeks of lockdowns was going to bring the economy roaring back. Clearly, that never happened. 

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To Understand Economics, First Understand Private Property

Blog03/06/2021

Rothbard recognized that money and exchange could not develop without first establishing private property. So Rothbard also recognized that it was important to develope theories of how private property might come about. 

To Stop the Left, America Needs a Rothbardian Right

Blog03/06/2021

Thankfully for the American right, there is another alternative to the neoconservatism of William Buckley, the neoliberalism of Milton Friedman, and the paleo-progressivism of Teddy Roosevelt: the libertarian populism of Murray Rothbard.

Aggregated Data Hides the Damage Done by Minimum Wage Hikes

Blog03/05/2021

Much of the harm is disguised by focusing on forecasts of higher aggregate income for the poor. Individuals, on the other hand, are another story. 

The Straussian Labyrinth

03/05/2021Friday Philosophy

The problem with Strauss is that while favoring what he considers to be the classical and Christian concepts of natural law, he is also bitterly opposed to natural rights such as liberty and property.

Rothbard Explains How to Recover from an Economic Crisis

Blog03/05/2021

The answer lies in audacious economic reforms that favor markets and entrepreneurs: liquidate bad investments, let deflation happen, cut government spending, cut taxes, let wages fall.

Daniel Lacalle on Freedom or Equality

03/05/2021Mises Media

If leaders are serious about economic recovery after lockdowns, they need to dispense with authoritarian controls and let markets work. Daniel Lacalle considers interest rates, inequality, stakeholder theory, global debt, and much more in this powerful discussion of today's economic reality.  

Buy Any Bond Necessary

03/05/2021Power & Market

Unfortunately, the Fed is stuck in limbo of sorts; letting rates rise would be economic destruction. But to keep rates low forever leads to a similar fate. 

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