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Central Banks and Socialism Are Forever Linked Together

Blog10/22/2021Jörg Guido Hülsmann

Central banks always and everywhere weaken economic growth by undermining the propensity to save; they are destabilizing the economy by fueling a debt economy.

Understanding Money Velocity and Prices

Blog10/22/2021Frank Shostak

The velocity of money does not have a life of its own. It is not an independent variable and it cannot cause anything, let alone offset the effect of increases in money supply on the prices of goods.

Rothbard: With Interest Rates, "There Are Two, Opposite Causal Chains at Work."

Blog10/21/2021Murray N. Rothbard

The relative strength and reaction times of changes in rates depend on the subjective expectations of the public. These changes—like economic changes in general—cannot be forecast with certainty.

What Spooner Can Teach Us in Our Age of Neofascism

Blog10/21/2021Jason Morgan

Neo-Spoonerism: there is no treason against the federal government, because the federal government does not abide by the document which it claims as its foundational authority to govern.

Three Things the Fed Must Do to Normalize Bond Markets

Blog10/21/2021Brendan Brown

Policy normalization—defined as closing down the nonconventional toolbox and restoring a well-functioning price-signaling mechanism to the bond market—is difficult but possible.

What Happens When the Public Realizes Inflation Will Get Worse

10/20/2021Mises Daily ArticlesLudwig von Mises

Once public opinion is convinced that the increase in prices will continue, everybody becomes eager to buy as much as possible and to restrict his cash holding to a minimum size.

Paul Krugman's One-Man War on Science

Blog10/20/2021William L. Anderson

One cannot declare the scientific method simultaneously to be both valid and invalid, yet, this is what Krugman is doing.

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Joe Salerno on Rothbard's History of Economic Thought

10/19/2021Jeff DeistJoseph T. Salerno

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Samuele Murtinu: How Low Time Preference Elevates the Investment Returns of Family Corporate Venture Capital

10/19/2021Hunter Hastings

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What the Fed Is Not Telling Us

10/21/2021Robert Aro

The Answer to Suicide Isn't a Gun Lock

10/19/2021Alan Mosley

The Sovereign State of Florida

10/18/2021Andrew Walter

Does the Fed Need More Progressives?

10/11/2021Robert Aro

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06/05/2022Auburn, Alabama

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