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No, Conservatives Should Not Embrace MMT

Blog48 sec ago

Instead of trying to spin conservative justifications for disastrous monetary policy, conservatives should join libertarians and classical liberals in working to limit government power while restoring sound money and greater market freedom.

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The American Rescue Plan: Limits of the Highly Visible

Blog5 hours ago

In the long run, economic stimulus creates no shortage of losers. The state’s objective is always to extract as many eggs from the golden goose as possible, only now it's not important to keep the goose alive.

Bob Murphy on Rothbard's What Has Government Done to Our Money?

04/30/2021Mises Media

Bob Murphy joins the show to discuss Rothbard's superb and eminently readable money book for lay readers.

The Fundamental Economic Problem with Biden's Rescue Plan

Blog04/30/2021

Do huge wealth redistribution schemes like Biden's new plan actually make people better off? Some people will get a net benefit. How how numerous are they? How many millions will take a net loss? The government has no idea.

Lord Acton: Libertarian Hero

Blog04/30/2021

When some years ago I first read Murray Rothbard's description of Lord Acton as "the great Catholic libertarian historian," I suspected overstatement. The more I learned from and about Acton, however, the more Rothbard's words rang true. 

Murray Rothbard as a Philosopher

04/30/2021Friday Philosophy

When people think of Rothbard as a philosopher, they often have in mind only his work in ethics and political philosophy, but he wrote about other areas of philosophy as well.

Milton Friedman's Methodological Mistake

Blog04/30/2021

Key methodological differences between Austrians were highlighted in Milton Friedman's "The Methodology of Positive Economics." A key piece of conflict: Friedman's focus on prediction rather than explanation.

Tobacco Smokers: America's Most Persecuted Minority

Blog04/29/2021

If today they come for the smoker, tomorrow they will come for you. Neo-Prohibitionism has been long on the march.

Local Nullification: A Way to Fight Both State and Federal Despots

Blog04/29/2021

Local nullification offers a practical guide to resisting tyranny in a way that reflects the real wishes of local community members against the ivory-tower mentality of their government “representatives.”

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