Economic Policy

Ryan and Zach talk about how the realities of expensive industrial warfare are still relevant.

For most Americans, the debate is about what size the welfare state should be. But why is there a welfare state at all? 

Many people are selling their gold to make ends meet. Others are buying gold as insurance against mounting price inflation. 

In publicly opposing apartheid, William H. Hutt saw how legal segregation kept black South Africans from pursuing legitimate economic goals. To Hutt, apartheid deprived people of equality of economic opportunity, which kept them in poverty.

On this day ninety-one years ago President Franklin D. Roosevelt via executive order seized gold legally held by Americans, criminalizing the use of sound money. Our economy and our nation has never recovered from this act.

Many people are selling their gold to make ends meet. Others are buying gold as insurance against mounting price inflation. 

With Gov. Jim Pillen’s recent signature, Nebraska has become the 12th state to end capital gains taxes on sales of gold and silver.

The attempt by the mainstream economics profession to create economic literacy has turned into a movement to promote economic illiteracy.

In 1959, Ludwig von Mises gave lectures on economics in Argentina, where the economy was in steep decline. In the 1920s, Argentina was one of the world's wealthiest countries, but decades of Peronism and inflation started the country on the long road to poverty.

The government’s inflationary borrow-and-spend policies have given Americans a false sense of prosperity. In the end, such policies are unsustainable.