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What the Central Bank Cartel has Planned for You

Money and BanksSocialism

08/31/2023The Austrian
"It may be hard to swallow, but central banks were not created for the greater good but to support the state and special interest groups."
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Will the Fed Ever Relinquish Its New Powers?: The Fed's "Cincinnatian Problem"

The Fed

07/11/2023The Austrian
What is the Cincinnatian problem? How to end vast emergency interventions whose day has passed but have become established and advantageous to their constituencies and have increased the power the central bankers enjoy.
Formats
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We Don't Believe You

PhilosophyPolitical Theory

09/28/2022The Austrian
Any political statement made today, by any politician or candidate, can be answered thus: "We don't believe you."
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What Is Wrong with the Fed's Inflationist Policy?

The FedInflation

06/08/2022The Austrian
Leonard offers a penetrating criticism of the Fed’s vast expansion of the money supply, but it falls short of a sound way to keep it in check.
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Why So Much Hate for the Free Market?

Book ReviewsSocialism

04/07/2022The Austrian
Given the manifest superiority of the free market, why do so many intellectuals reject it?
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Why Economics Needs Philosophy

Austrian Economics OverviewPhilosophy and Methodology

05/31/2019The Austrian
People criticized economics and said “well, there’s something wrong with Austrian economics because it doesn’t depend on verifying things empirically,” Mises wanted to come up with a reply to that, so that was what really got him into philosophy.
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What Mises Could Teach Today's Nationalists

SocialismPolitical Theory

02/12/2019The Austrian
Dr. Gordon analyzes Yoram Hazony's new book The Virtue of Nationalism , in which Dr. Gordon examines Hazony's flawed but useful critique of political universalism.
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Why Free Markets Are Better than Globalism

Big GovernmentSocialismStrategy

11/07/2018The Austrian
For Quinn Slobodian, economic arguments for the market are mere business propaganda. He does not grasp that the argument for free exchange follows from elementary economic theory.
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What's Driving Global Populism?

World HistoryPolitical Theory

07/12/2017The Austrian
Judis’s mistakes about economics lead him to miss key aspects of the populist movement that culminated in Trump.
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What the Wage Equality Crusaders Don't Understand

Media and CultureU.S. Economy

04/23/2017The Austrian
There are many forms of compensation other than cash, and this helps explain why many women earn "less" than men.
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