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From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: “The History of Money and Bank

From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: “The History of Money and Bank

The state makes a mess of everything it touches.

One doesn't have to read far into the works of George Orwell to discover that he had no understanding of economics whatsoever and was not personally a libertarian in the sense we have in mind when we use that word today...

The British Currency School did not criticize the multifarious projects to lower or abolish interest by means of a banking reform.

In the 1940s and early ‘50s, a school of establishment historians existed who made it their business to extol the virtues of the “Great

The system of mercantilism needed no high-flown “theory” to get launched.

The truth of the matter is that, far from causing starvation and famines, it is the speculator who prevents them.

Freethought, de Cleyre wrote, was "the right to believe as the evidence, coming in contact with the mind, forces it to believe. This implies the admission of any and all evidence bearing upon any subject."...

Bob DelGiorno of the “First News” radio program on WWL, New Orleans, interviews Professor Walter Block, 7 June 2010.

There are instances in which the methods of genuine credit expansion are used for an utterly different purpose: to allow the government to take adv

The fact is that, exactly as Mark Lilla fears, when people distrust authority in a generalized way and start thinking for themselves, often without much relevant information to guide them, they'll make many decisions that they'll later regret. But whose decisions are they to make?...

In the early 1700s, France turned on the taps of paper-money inflation.

Rothbard was a man of great achievement and immense scholarship, an indefatigable worker, and the most significant anarchist writer then living — i

Judge Andrew Napolitano interviews Professor Walter Block on free-market environmentalism, 27 May 2010.

From An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume I. Pages 365-382 in the text. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.

From An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume I. Pages 477-502 in the text. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.

From An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume I. Pages 306-338 in the text. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.

From An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume I. Pages 435-471 in the text. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.

From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: “The History of Money and Bank