C.J. Maloney

Articles

Chatting with A Dead Economist: Charles Rist

03/19/2025 Mises Wire C.J. Maloney

Charles Rist was an economist of nearly a century ago who recognized the dangers behind President Franklin Roosevelt‘s attempts to demonetize gold. We are still paying the price for FDR‘s actions.

Adam Smith, the American Home, and the Religion of Progress

08/23/2024 Power & Market C.J. Maloney

John Tamny and Jack Ryan get heretical about housing. They argue, in part, that owning a home comes with significant costs and may not be "worth it," however, individual consumers decide what costs they are willing to undergo and what is "worth it" for them.

FDR and the End of Gold: 2,500 Percent and Counting

04/05/2024 Power & Market C.J. Maloney

The world is full of scraps of paper today. - Benjamin Anderson, economist, Chase Manhattan Bank (1920 - 1939) April 1933 found America mired in a crushing economic depression, and newly elected...

Publications

Back to the Land

01/11/2016 C.J. Maloney

This is the true story of Arthurdale, West Virginia, a town created as a “pet project” of the Roosevelts. Designed to be (in the words of Eleanor Roosevelt) “a human experiment station”, she was to create a “New American” citizen who would embrace a

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