Trump’s Inflationist Monetary Policy Favors Wall Street over Main Street

The Trump administration has tried to cultivate a reputation for preferring “Main Street over Wall Street.” Unfortunately, this image is belied by the administration’s renewed push for artificially low interest rates and monetary inflation. By embracing these policies, Trump has put himself squarely in the camp of “Wall Street over Main Street.” 

Sukrit Sabhlok is an economist living in Australia who holds a PhD in constitutional law.

Excerpts from the Keynote Lectures at AERC

How Executive Power Can Dismantle the Deep State
Patrick Newman
Murray N. Rothbard Memorial Lecture
Sponsored by Steve and Cassandra Torello

Rothbard believed in a unified science of liberty that could provide the theoretical edifice of Austrian economics, the empirical illustrations of government failures and how the free market works, and of course, the strategy for actually achieving free market libertarianism in our time.

Nehir Turgut is a student in the Bachelor in Global Governance program at the University of Rome Tor Vergata.

The Making of the State

This article is taken from the keynote lecture at the Libertarian Scholars Conference, March 20, 2025, in Auburn, Alabama.

The Origin of the State

What needs to be asked is, How have things gone historically? What is the historical origin of the state?