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Inflation and the French Revolution: The Story of a Monetary Catastrophe

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Monetary inflation helped bring on the Terror and set French progress back a generation.
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MMT Explained with Dr. Robert Murphy

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Can newly issued currency be used to pay for public works, health care, college, entitlements, and guaranteed jobs? If it sounds too good to be true, it is—and Dr. Murphy joins the Human Action Podcast to explain why.
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What Chile’s Vote to Change Its Constitution Means for Its Future

Blog11/23/2020

In recent decades, Chile set itself apart from the rest of Latin America with successful market reforms and a stable political system. Average Chileans prospered. But now that's all at risk. 

Being Pro-union Means Being Antiworker

Blog11/23/2020

The problem with Biden’s Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act is that it would help unions at the expense of the vast majority of American workers.

Judy Shelton Could Still Be Confirmed. But It's Looking Very Unlikely.

11/23/2020Power & Market

On July 2, 2019, President Donald Trump nominated Mrs. Judy Shelton to join the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. She has a distinguished career as an economist and even co-authored a book called Roads to Sound Money, which supports ideas such as sound money and individual liberty. To those...

China's New Five-Year Plan Exposes the Wishful Thinking behind Socialist Regimes

Blog11/21/2020

The trouble with China’s new five-year plan is that it attempts to solve problems while leaving their underlying structural causes unaddressed. In this it is not unlike the final Soviet five-year plans of the 1980s.

Pandemics Are Over When the Public Decides They're Over

Blog11/21/2020

Government bureaucrats have their own standards for declaring when a pandemic has "officially" ended. But the de facto ending comes when the public stops paying attention. 

The Impossibility of "Taxation with Representation"

Blog11/21/2020

The slogan "taxation without representation" implies that taxation with representation is both possible and moral. But the idea of political representation is fraught with errors.

The Covid Cult

11/20/2020Mises Media

This is the greatest public health fiasco in the history of the world, and the media has distorted it so badly, that much of the general public is celebrating villains and hissing at heroes. 

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Judy Shelton Could Still Be Confirmed. But It's Looking Very Unlikely.

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