Why Rothbard Trended on Twitter This Weekend
On Friday, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted a link to Rothbard's essay "Anatomy of the State."
Money and Banking
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Why the State Demands Control of Money
The question that arises for the state ruler is: How can I free myself of two effective constraints on my power: tax-resistance in the form of falling tax revenue and the need to borrow from and pay interest to banks?
As the Fed Powell Continues to Flail, Could an MMT Fed Chair Be Next?
Could progressive pressure, mixed with escalating economic pressure, push White House decision-makers to replace Jay Powell with an advocate of MMT?
America’s First Housing Bubble and the Panic of 1819
In 1819 America, nobody blamed the effects for the Panic of 1819, they rightly blamed the cause. They blamed the "friendly central bank."
Is There Such a Thing as Good Inflation?
Unlike the ongoing price inflation that is typically caused by central-bank expansion of the money supply, the price inflation generated by diminished supplies of goods is a one-shot affair.
3 Common Criticisms of Crypto—and Why They’re Wrong
Peter Schiff is a well-known critic of bitcoin, and while he is an excellent resource on many economic and political topics, he misses the mark on cryptocurrency.
Can the Lightning Network Lead to “Hyperbitcoinization”?
Just as the internet needed web browsers before it could really change the world, Bitcoin needed user-friendly interfaces to grow beyond money and towards being the base layer—the “rails”—for decentralized services built on Bitcoin alone.
El Salvador Blazes the Path to Bitcoinization
An unbanked population, an economy dependent on remittances, and dollarization. These combine to make El Salvador a perfect case study for bitcoinization.
