What To Do While Waiting to End the Fed
The ideal reform is always the elimination of central banks. But there are also ways to limit the harm central banks do through less-than-ideal reforms.
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Free Trade and the American Political Tradition
We can be both trade globalists and political localists.
The Rise of the West
Throughout history, material privation and chronic insecurity were the norm.
The Anti-Imperialist League and the Battle Against Empire
States have successfully managed to persuade subject populations that any insult to the state is an insult to the people as well.
Mercantilism as the Economic Side of Absolutism
Mercantilism was of necessity a system of state-building, of big government, of high taxes, and the aggrandizing of the nation-state.
The Restoration and the Navigation Acts
One of the most far-reaching actions of the Restoration was a series of Navigation Acts, by which England imposed mercantilist restrictions on its empire.
Time for Another Revolution
In exchange for an income tax King George III would have conceded every point made against him by the colonists.
The Saver as a Voter
Millions suffer because their governments obstruct domestic saving and capital formation and keep foreign capital out.
The Corrupt Origins of Central Banking
The main objective of the Nationalists, who were also known as Federalists, was essentially to establish an American version of the British mercantilist system, the very system that the Revolution had been fought against.
Classical-Liberal Exploitation Theory
Real exploitation in society is perpetrated upon the productive classes (the taxpayers) by the parasite class (the state).
