The yen’s “prolonged weakness has become a growing headache, inflating the cost of imported raw materials and worsening the squeeze on households...”

He’s forced to admit the obvious. 

The Ontario Progressive Conservative government of Doug Ford has shown a remarkable commitment to corruption and self-dealing, as shown by:

1. The Greenbelt land scandal - Real estate developers close to the provincial government purchased land in the Greenbelt around Toronto before it was to have been opened for development and stood to gain over $8 billion from the change before public anger caused the government to reverse course.

[This article is the introduction to Rationality, Psychology and Capitalism: Defending Economic Theory From Behavioral Imperialism by former Mises Summer Fellow Arkadiusz Sieroń.

Originally published December, 2013. Republished with permission of the author.

The so-called “Great Moderation,” for which our fiat-currency central bankers gave themselves so much credit, turned out to be the Era of Great Bubbles.  The U.S., in successive decades, had the Tech Stock Bubble and then the disastrous Housing Bubble. Other countries had real estate and government debt bubbles.

Investors had their eyes to the skies last Friday riding Elon’s SpaceX rocket, making him the world’s first trillionaire. John D.

Attention Upper Division Undergrads and Grad Students!

This year we will celebrate our Seventh class of Ron Paul Scholars and that means if you are a student interested in peace and prosperity, a non-interventionist foreign policy, liberty, and in making contacts among like-minded peers, we welcome your application to be a 2026 Ron Paul Scholar!

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