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US central bankers are guilty of much, but it's not their fault that central bankers elsewhere are so often even worse and have made their currencies weak compared to the dollar. 

Post-Keynesians believe that capitalism is internally unstable, leading to necessary intervention by the central bank. Austrians see that as backward reasoning, as policies by the central bank to create credit from nothing is the problem

Learning economics is fundamentally about gaining economic literacy so we can better understand the world we are part of. The real world, not the invented world we find in formalized models.

Because government is predatory, it may seem ironic then to use the political system as a means of protecting one's own property, family, and loved ones. But there are times when such a strategy makes sense.

A few months ago, a manifesto entitled “National Conser

Over the weekend, Scott Pelley of 60 Min

The long knives are out for Hans Hoppe again, but the accusations, this time in Mother Jones, miss the mark badly.

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Adherents of the famous Phillips curve believe there is a permanent tradeoff between inflation and unemployment. This is mistaken.

Monarchs created Europe's modern states but lost the ability to control them. Then, having grown beyond the tools that helped monarchs turn themselves into absolute rulers, "the state acquired a life of its own."