U.S. History

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Joseph T. Salerno

The gold standard disappeared because governments destroyed it. Here's how it happened. Private-sector money is always an enemy of the state.

Murray N. Rothbard

After centralizing political power in the presidency to a level unfathomable to most Americans, the nationalists had succeeded, and the new Constitution was ready to be sprung upon an unsuspecting country. 

Ryan McMaken

Like any other piece of aggregate government data, cause-of-death data is used to justify new government interventions and policies. But there are good reasons to suspect there are many problems in compiling and auditing this data.

James Bovard

Biden and congressional Democrats are seeking to turbocharge their push for a new domestic terrorism law to permit widespread federal crackdowns on their opponents. Any rigged commission would likely pour gasoline on a fire that could singe far more American rights and liberties.

Frank Shostak

Without a coherent theory, it is not possible to begin to understand the causes of business cycle and no amount of data torturing by means of the most advanced mathematical methods will do the trick.

Murray N. Rothbard

The founders of the new constitution proposed a cynical end run around state legislatures in order to improve the odds of ratification.  The "founding fathers" increasingly abandoned established law, justifying it with claims of a "national emergency."

William L. Anderson

Austrians do not question booms because they don’t like prosperity or because they have character defects. Rather, Austrians understand that booms involve lines of investment in areas of production that cannot be sustained.