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A few days ago, Ginny Garner sent me a message. Ginny wrote:

“Lew,

There has been much written and said about Tucker Carlson’s interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin last week.

The amount of commercial real estate loans coming due in 2024 has jumped to $929 billion according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

The “One-China” policy assumes Taiwan to be a runaway province. The people of Taiwan, however, see their country as sovereign, and their reasons have merit.

While South Africa’s political authorities pursue genocide accusations against other countries, those same leaders are destroying the nation’s economy and basic infrastructure. This is a failed state.

[This article was originally published on LewRockwell.com in 2003

As the US banking system becomes increasingly unstable, the calls proliferate for even more government intervention into banking and finance. People forget that it was government intervention in the first place that caused these crises.

Javier Milei is trying to undo the damage created by nearly a century of socialism in Argentina. Mises, Rothbard, and Hayek were good teachers.

Many economics textbooks claim that a function of money is to measure the value of goods. In fact, the value an individual attaches to a given sum of money or to any kind of good (including gold) is based on a subjective judgment and is without physical dimensions.

The most common news to come out of the Federal Reserve is the result of FOMC meetings and changes to the Federal Funds Rate.