Following up on his successful and highly regarded James Madison and the Making of America (St. Martin’s, 2012), Kevin Gutzman has returned with a fresh look at Jefferson in Thomas Jefferson, Revolutionary: A Radical’s Struggle to Remake America. It could well have been called The Jefferson Nobody Knows.
Minneapolis Fed President Neil Kashkari spoke on Monday and came out against the idea that infrastructure spending was going to lead to economic growth. No, this doesn’t mean he has been keeping up to date with David Stockman, or cracked open Mises’s Theory of Money and Credit.
As Americans were spending time scrambling to give the IRS their annual protection fee, the court system in the United Kingdom, at the behest of National Health Service bureaucrats, abducted and murdered an 8-month-old baby. This brazen abduction was done in broad daylight with full press coverage and the UK government and courts claimed loudly this was humane and the right thing to do.
In one of his most important works, An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Murray Rothbard evaluates the economic contributions of various schools of thought across the centuries. He devotes the first chapter of the second volume to nineteenth-century classical economist Jean-Baptiste Say.
“I love Wikileaks,” candidate Donald Trump said on October 10th on the campaign trail. He praised the organization for reporting on the darker side of the Hillary Clinton campaign. It was information likely leaked by a whistleblower from within the Clinton campaign to Wikileaks.
Neil deGrasse Tyson has released a new video aimed at a what he sees as a growing anti-intellectualism problem in the United States. It was released at the same time as the March for Science and many Earth Day demonstrations. He reflects on what he thinks made America great and what’s stalling progress today. Science used to be respected, but today, there is a growing crowd of science-deniers who threaten our “informed democracy.”
Greece is on the hook for a €7 billion debt repayment in July, but may not be prepared to meet the obligation. If Europe doesn’t agree to come to an alternative agreement, the IMF may step in and bail them out again. This, according to the New York Times, which writes:
Below is the outline for this week’s events and speeches of importance relating to the Fed and its members. All times Eastern.
Monday, April 24
Tuesday, April 25
Women in the workforce are constantly bombarded by rhetoric intended to make us feel less appreciated than our male colleagues. Politicians and Hollywood celebrities — many of whom have never worked one day in a traditional office setting — seem to take great pleasure in telling females that we are victims of the alleged gender wage gap.
