What use is the Fed's supposed devotion to being "data-driven" when the data itself is unreliable and the Fed is basing its policies on data that is thoroughly wrong?

While Hayek did not write directly about the American Civil War, some of his writings provide insights on the conflict.

The long-awaited biography of William F. Buckley Jr. is hardly worth the wait of thirty years. David Brady, Jr., reviews it, saving our readers the pain of reading themselves.

While it is true that colonial era governments sometimes burned paper money after receiving it in the form of taxation, why they burned the money is for reasons other than what MMT advocates are claiming. In the end, the MMT promoters are telling a false history.