George Ford Smith

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04/14/2025 Mises Wire George Ford Smith

Imagine being famous for saying something you never said, seven centuries after your death. What has come to be known as Occam’s razor—“entities are not to be multiplied beyond necessity”—has been...

Will Trump End the Fed or Put Himself in Charge of It?

04/07/2025 Mises Wire George Ford Smith

On February 18, 2025 President Trump issued an executive order titled, “Ensuring Accountability for all Agencies,” in which he says, …previous administrations have allowed so-called “independent...

Who Owns the Gold?

04/01/2025 Mises Wire George Ford Smith

“Economics, in its most elegant form, is the study of cause and effect.”—John Rogers, Voting in Context: A Brief Economic History of American Politics In 1933, people thought the world was ending and...

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We Desperately Need Sound Money, Not Tariffs

01/31/2025 George Ford Smith

President-elect Donald Trump has declared that he will raise tariffs his first day in office. Our economy, however, does not need government-created roadblocks to trade. Instead, we need free exchange and sound money.

Finding Shelter from Monetary Racketeers

12/26/2024 George Ford Smith

We have reached this point: the government keepers of money do not even understand what money is or why inflation is harmful. To them, the real threat to the economy is “deflation.”

The Birth of “Irrational Exuberance”

11/19/2024 George Ford Smith

Long before there was Alan Greenspan to turn the Federal Reserve into Casino Central, there was John Law, France's minister of finance.

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