Other Schools of Thought

Folsom places great emphasis on Roosevelt's character, and the president comes off very poorly indeed.

Inflation has always been, the most dangerous and destructive form of taxation.

Presented at the 2008 Economics and Government Seminar at the University of Waterloo, sponsored by the Institute for Liberal Studies.

Economists of this century of the broadest vision and the keenest insight — men such as Ludwig von Mises, Frank H. Knight, and F.A.

"The middle-of-the-road policy is not an economic system that can last. It is a method for the realization of socialism by installments."

But history is clear: more fiat money won't solve this crisis; a return to sounder money will.

"Those of libertarian inclinations tend not to hold it unfair for those with superior talents to benefit from them."

"The egalitarian world would necessarily be a world of horror fiction — a world of faceless and identical creatures, devoid of all individuality, variety, or special creativity."

As I've said many times, the real problem is not the person; it is the institution.

It was largely by making the divine right of kings a laughing stock that the Enlightenment writers destroyed it. It is time for us to do the same thing to the divine right of the majority.