U.S. History

Thanksgiving started out as a terribly political holiday. But it has gotten better with age as more people have been interested in beer and football than in politics.

The Morgan-Rockefeller forces began to organize a "reform" movement to cure the "inelasticity" of money and to move slowly toward the establishment of a central bank.

In the 19th century, the common view of federal soldiers was "as slackers on the public dole" and people with "such a lazy life," as to be "certainly not worth their country's crying about."

Middle-income households and workers haven't been disappearing. They've been moving into higher income levels, while the lowest-income groups have been getting smaller. But another recession could erase many of the gains made over 20 years.

Presented at Jekyll Island, Georgia, in September 1986.

Presented at Jekyll Island, Georgia, in September 1986.

Patrick Newman speaks at the 2019 Supporters Summit in Los Angeles, California.

The economic policy dominant in the Europe of the 17th and 18th centuries assumed that intervention in economic affairs was a proper function of government.

Bob Murphy and Mark Thornton discuss the various ways in which government intervention masked slavery's inefficiency in the American South.

Roosevelt stands for the national government as we know it today: a vast, unfathomable bureaucratic apparatus.