Power & Market

Reading the most recent FOMC minutes, it’s difficult to know whether they believe what they say, or are just going through the motions, attempting to stave off economic collapse for as long as possible.

Only a free market for ideas can solve the problem of political correctness and prevent its pernicious effects.

Is price gouging wrong? For many, this practice does not exactly seem to be ethical.

Whether discussing Christianity or Black Power Rothbard always provided a unique, rigorous, and often surprising world view of his own. 

"Private companies" that openly deplatform, impoverish, and unperson dissident voices are waging a war of attrition.

It's less and less convincing when the Fed claims it acts “solely to fulfill our congressionally mandated goals of maximum employment and price stability." 

Henry Grady Weaver’s The Mainspring of Human Progress drew out how poverty was almost everyone’s fate throughout world history until the evolution of capitalism made civilization possible.

 The Cold War ideologue James Burnham switched sides after World War II, supporting an imperialist policy he analyzed critically when he was a Trotskyist.

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As FDR’s gold crackdown showed, tyrants know the importance of controlling money in a time of crisis. It appears cryptocurrency could be central banks' next target.