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A Pyrrhic End to 130 Years of Vicious Bad Money and Banking Crises

Booms and BustsThe FedMoney and BanksU.S. EconomyU.S. History

Blog04/20/2023

The current banking crises have deep roots in US financial history. Monetary authorities have engaged in inflationary behavior for more than a hundred years.

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Waco 30 Years Later: It Is Not an Atrocity if the Feds Do It

Media and CulturePoliticsStrategyThe Police StateU.S. History

Blog04/19/2023

Today is the 30th anniversary of the Waco Massacre in which the media and the government self-congratulated each other in absolving the FBI of any crimes. Nothing has changed since then.

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Peace is Breaking Out in the Middle East…and Washington is Not Happy!

U.S. HistoryWar and Foreign Policy

Blog04/13/2023

To normal people the idea of peace breaking out in the Middle East is a wonderful thing. But Washington is anything but normal.

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Do We Need a "National Divorce"? It's Not a New Idea

AntipoliticsDemocracySecessionU.S. History

Blog04/12/2023

We are hearing calls both from right and left for an amicable national divorce. In truth, the states were never "hitched" in the first place, at least not by any plausible definition of marriage.

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The World War Boom and '46 Bust: Why War Does Not Keep Us Out of Recessions

Economic PolicyHayekU.S. HistoryWar and Foreign Policy

Blog04/11/2023

Perhaps the most pernicious Keynesian myth is that a market economy needs wars in order to keep full employment. Wars don't stimulate the economy; they depress it.

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If at First You Don't Secede . . .

PoliticsSecessionU.S. History

Blog04/07/2023

David Gordon explores how Abraham Lincoln's stated view on secession was fundamentally Hobbesian, cynical, and violent. 

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Role Reversal: The Collapse of the Dollar-Enforced Empire

The FedInflationMonetary PolicyU.S. HistoryWorld History

Blog04/07/2023

A generation ago, the Berlin Wall fell and the USSR collapsed. Today, US monetary authorities are bringing down our own country.

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Central Bank Digital Currencies Would Bring Hyperinflation

U.S. History

Blog03/18/2023

The only thing that saves citizens from much higher prices is the fact that the transmission mechanism of monetary policy is independent and diversified. Imagine if that transmission was direct and had only one channel, the central bank itself.

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Reparations Are a Statist Cudgel for Bludgeoning Property Owners

Bureaucracy and RegulationPoliticsU.S. History

Blog03/16/2023

San Francisco, as well as the government of California, is calling for millions in "reparations" for black people in that state. Reparations, unfortunately, are fast becoming another anti-property-owner racket.

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Our Economic Illiteracy

U.S. History

Blog03/14/2023

The great economist Armen Alchian once observed, “Fortunately, societies have progressed despite almost universal ignorance of economic principles.” True.

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