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It's been spend, spend, spend ever since. And as credit lines increased, so did the size of the ships.

To put it differently, morally significant action has to be freely chosen, not mere proper behavior.

The argument of sticky wages does not justify the existence of a central bank. Market prices, including wages, are flexible enough to smooth out macroeconomic disturbances.

"Economics is the science that studies these individual agents of the market and how they coordinate through the price mechanism to create, not just what the mainstream considers 'the market,' but society as a whole, all without the necessity of a central planner or authority."

"Whenever the central bank inflated itself into financial trouble, the government stood ready to allow it to suspend specie payments."

You cannot measure the immeasurable.

The Establishment media put it this way: After shilly-shallying in a weak and indecisive manner, the Carter administration has at last decided to &

Roosevelt solidified trends toward centralization that had been at work since the 1860s and institutionalized what amounted to a revolution in the American form of government.

With Man, Economy, and State, Mises concluded, "Rothbard joins the ranks of the eminent economists."

But because of his interaction with Robert LeFevre in Colorado in the '50s and '60s, libertarian ideas were among those he toyed with and dramatized in certain of his stories.