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The Price of Time

Capital and Interest Theory

01/31/2023The Austrian
Jeff and Edward Chancellor discuss The Price of Time and delve into the all-important topic of market-set interest rates as an important indicator of a healthy society, and why manipulating them is so harmful. The current system isn't working, so what can be done?
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From the Publisher January–February 2023

LanguageMedia and Culture

01/31/2023The Austrian
We want stuff now, we want happiness now, we want that vacation or car or trinket now. This is simple human nature. But we also have the capacity to plan and prepare for the future. This innate human desire to improve our material circumstances in the future is the driver of all economic growth.
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The Income Tax Is the Root of Much Evil

Taxes and Spending

01/31/2023The Austrian
Laffer and Domitrovic present a comprehensive history of income tax rates and their effects on the economy from World War I to the present, and they cover not only federal taxes but also taxation at the state and local levels.
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The End of Monetary Hedonism

The FedMoney and Banks

01/31/2023The Austrian
Does cheap money and credit make us richer? Does more money and credit create more stuff, or better stuff? Do they make us happier and more productive? Or do these twin forces actually distort the economy, misallocate resources, and degrade us as people? These are the fundamental questions that...
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On Secession and Small States

Decentralization and SecessionSecession

12/01/2022The Austrian
In the current world, secession—when successful—is an event that reduces the size and scope of states. It reduces the territory and the populations over which a single central institution exercises monopoly power.
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Destructive Egalitarianism?

Book ReviewsMedia and CultureOld Right

12/01/2022The Austrian
Kendall shares Murray Rothbard’s antipathy for elite dominance, and sees the Left’s phony push for equality as nothing more than an attempt to install themselves as leaders of a revolutionary social order. Kendall is not for liberty and natural law, but this book is interesting and vital.
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Evolution or Corruption?: The Imposition of Political Language in the West Today

Language

11/30/2022The Austrian
Who owns and controls language? There should be greater awareness and understanding of the distinction between evolution and corruption, between spontaneous linguistic changes and the imposition of language to serve an agenda.
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From the Publisher November–December 2022

Language

11/18/2022The Austrian
Language, like our institutions today are under attack. Our main article examines the idea of linguistic corruption—i.e., consciously imposed changes in language engineered by elites for political reasons—and contrast this with natural and organic evolution of language.
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False Thought Patterns of the Catastrophists

The Environment

10/04/2022The Austrian
In his remarkable book, Epstein has changed the terms of the debate about the danger of “global warming” and the alleged need to take drastic action. And, the book is written in plain English.
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Debunking Fossil Fuel Hysteria: An Interview with Alex Epstein

The EnvironmentInterviewsStrategy

10/01/2022The Austrian
Energy from fossil fuels, Epstein explains, is part of human civilization and our entire material existence. He shows how the growing movement to restrict or even ban the use of oil, natural gas, and coal is not only delusional but also profoundly antihuman.
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