It was no secret that President Franklin Roosevelt hated Germany and all things German. Heavily influenced by Silas Marcus MacVane. FDR embraced MacVane's left-leaning progressivism.
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One cannot deny that American institutions have been corrupted by leftist thought, which demonstrates the success of Italian communist Antonio Gramsci's call to bring about socialism in the West by eroding the institutional barriers against it.
Dr. DiLorenzo has some words for Secretary Bessent about the true role of the Fed and its record in this open letter.
The long-awaited biography of William F. Buckley Jr. is hardly worth the wait of thirty years. David Brady, Jr., reviews it, saving our readers the pain of reading themselves.
The news that Starbucks is closing sixteen stores due to customer safety concerns exposes the lack of police protection in cities and the problems with allowing noncustomers to remain in stores.
Most people believe that ours is a “free-market” healthcare system, but nothing could be further from the truth. A true market-based system as explained here would be less costly and more oriented to patient care.
At the recent WNBA All-Star game, players wore T-shirts with the message, “Pay us what you owe us.” If one uses the discounted marginal revenue product as a guide, the answer to their demand would be “zero.”
The answer lies not in doubling down on political unity, maintained through endless violence or threats of violence. Rather, the answer lies in peaceful separation.
The Democrats are performing an autopsy of their 2024 electoral failures, but without mentioning Biden, the Harris campaign, their alienation of certain demographics, or their polarizing positions.
Just as no one in the world could possibly make something as simple as a pencil all by himself, as the great Leonard Read explained in his famous essay, I, Pencil, so it is with Mises University.
While it is true that colonial era governments sometimes burned paper money after receiving it in the form of taxation, why they burned the money is for reasons other than what MMT advocates are claiming. In the end, the MMT promoters are telling a false history.
America recently celebrated Independence Day, but Americans were too quick to abandon their own individual freedoms and individual sovereignty and submit to the state.
The Federal Trade Commission has fined the makers of the video game Fortnite more than $500 million ostensibly for violations that have no legal basis. This is yet another case of the feds shaking down producers in the name of “consumer protection.”
In this week's Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon takes on Alex Honneth's The Working Sovereign. While Dr. Gordon acknowledges that the author gives an "Honneth" effort, his logic and grasp of the world of work fall way short of being convincing.
The biography of Hans F. Sennholz reads like a paradoxical novel—as if the protagonist had journeyed backward through the twentieth century.
Even when MMT advocates are correct that colonial governments at times burned money after receiving it for tax revenues, they still manage to get both the history and the causes wrong.
Surveys used to gauge optimism or pessimism about the economy may be interesting to read, but unless they are the product of sound and realistic economic theory, they are not economically useful.
The Federal Reserve is not the only central bank in the world doing monetary and economic damage. Portugal's central bank, working as a branch of the European Central Bank, has been undermining sound money and economic prosperity in that country.
Mises University begins Sunday, July 20, and given that misinformation abounds about the economy, it is good to have a forum where students can learn economic truths and stretch their minds.
Like a child with his new favorite toy at Christmas, President Trump is using tariff taxes not only to attempt to centrally plan the pricing of thousands of goods and services in the economy, but also to engage in election interference in other countries.
