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What the Technocrats Call "Economic Stability" Is Really Just Inflation

Book ReviewsInflationUnemploymentCapital and Interest Theory

Blog11/10/2023

Biden administration cheerleaders such as Paul Krugman claim that inflation is under control and that unemployment is falling. The numbers tell a very different story.

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Outside the Universe?

Book ReviewsOther Schools of ThoughtPhilosophy and Methodology

Blog07/14/2023

David Gordon take a critical look at Markus Gabriel's Moral Progress in Dark Times, and although he finds parts that are disturbing, he also discovers important areas of agreement.

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What Have We Learned? Lessons from America’s Great Depression?

Book ReviewsBooms and BustsAustrian Economics Overview

Blog03/14/2023

“America’s Great Depression” serves as a reminder that a brighter future where these missteps are recognized and no longer pursued, is in fact possible.

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Murray Rothbard’s America’s Great Depression and Its Importance Today

Book ReviewsBooms and BustsAustrian Economics Overview

Blog03/14/2023

Rothbard’s America’s Great Depression is the essential book to read for those wanting to understand the economic issues we face today.

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To Prevent Future Busts, Rothbard's America's Great Depression Must Be Reckoned With

Book ReviewsBooms and BustsAustrian Economics Overview

Blog03/14/2023

The only way the current bust and any future ones can possibly be mitigated is by following Rothbard’s explanation of the Great Depression and taking those lessons to heart, else we will be doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past.

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Hans-Hermann Hoppe on For a New Liberty at 50

Book ReviewsPolitical Theory

Blog01/18/2023

No one will read For a New Liberty and not see the world with very different eyes afterward.

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Can We See the End of the World from Here? Will We Still Feel Fine?

Book ReviewsGlobal Economy

Blog08/15/2022

Typical discussions about the fate of our planet center around issues like war, climate change, and sovereignty. Peter Zelhan says "the halcyon days of 1980–2015 are over."

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Clarence Darrow vs. the State

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Blog03/30/2022

“Force is wrong,” Darrow wrote. “A bayonet in the hand of one man is no better than in the hand of another. It is the bayonet that is evil.”

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The Science of Evil: A Personal Review of Political Ponerology

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Blog03/26/2022

The literary accounts and studies of the Soviet Union, the Eastern Bloc, and Nazi Germany necessarily failed to grasp the root of the problem—namely, the psychopathological dimension of the inception and development of pathocracy.

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The Roman Empire Wasn't "Civilization." It Was Violence.

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Blog03/10/2022

Kulikowski's two-volume history of Rome offers many lessons in what was at the center of the empire. What was Rome? It was violence—political violence as an organizing principle.

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