The English Crown vs. Massachusetts
[This article is excerpted from Conceived in Liberty, volume 1, chapter 37, “The Restoration Crisis in New England.” An MP3 audio file of this article, narrated by Floy Lilley, is available for download.]
The Fall of the New England Confederation
The Restoration of the British Crown in May 1660 was a fateful event for New England.
The Decline of the Plymouth Colony
What, in all this time, was happening to Plymouth, the mother colony of all New England? Succinctly, it was rapidly and irretrievably declining.
Is Interest Exploitation?
The Rise of the Fisheries and the Merchants
Attempts of the government to subsidize the beginning of fisheries also proved fruitless.
Occupy Gotham?
I think Murray Rothbard would have liked Christian Bale’s portrayal of Bruce Wayne.
The Last American Martyr
And still the indomitable Quakers kept coming. Among the most determined to bear witness was William Leddra, destined to be the last American martyr.
Tariffs as Welfare-State Economics
I have found over the years that when I debate with people who promote tariffs, meaning sales taxes on imported goods that are enforced by people with badges and guns, they always adopt arguments that apply only to America’s side of the border. They refuse to adopt those very same arguments for people on the other side of the border.
The Theory of Money
[Understanding the Dollar Crisis (1973)]
The subject of this fifth lecture is the theory of money and its value.
