How Much Longer Can the U.S. Economy Bear the Burdens?
Ordinary people, and sometimes experts as well, tend to overreact to short-term economic changes.
U.S. History
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Juan de Mariana and the Modern American Politics of Money: Salamanca, Cervantes, Jefferson, and the Austrian School
ABSTRACT: Juan de Mariana may have had more direct lines of influence on the contemporary political denunciation of central banking in the United States than previously thought. As the culmination of a series of monetary theorists of the School of Salamanca, Mariana’s genius was his ability to synthesize and articulate a critique of the inflationary monetary policies of the Spanish Habsburgs. Furthermore, the Jesuit scholar linked his economic analysis to his equally scandalous endorsement of regicide. For their part, both the monetary policy concerns and the rebellious animus of the modern libertarian wing of American politics echo Thomas Jefferson’s views during the early Republic. These views also likely owe something to Mariana’s uniquely menacing confrontations with the Habsburgs. And thanks to the Virginian’s lifelong appreciation of Miguel de Cervantes’s great novel Don Quijote, which was itself heavily influenced by Mariana, the fascinating connections between Jefferson’s and Mariana’s politicized understandings of money are even further intertwined.
Secession: The Reasonable Option Everyone Resists
Recorded at the Mises Circle in Houston, Texas, 24 January 2015.
People Have More Money? Let’s Tax It!
The drop in gas prices has left households with a little extra money to spend. So naturally, the state thinks it's a great time to raise gas taxes. Otherwise, taxpayers would just waste that money on their families.
The Calamity of the Federal Reserve
Interviewed by Solidus.Center founder Seth Mason, Mark Thornton and Walter Block discuss the history of the Fe
How Embargoes Destroy Freedom
Supporters of embargoes like the Cuban embargo have never made a convincing case for why taxpayers, merchants, and consumers should be forced to forego their property rights and bear the costs of the embargo’s war on free trade.
Mises Daily Tuesday: Is The Fourteenth Amendment Good?
Mises Daily Tuesday by Allen Mendenhall.
Is The Fourteenth Amendment Good?
Designed to redress the wrongs of the major injustice of slavery, the Fourteenth Amendment is now used by the federal courts to micromanage nearly every aspect of modern life. Strangely, many libertarians continue to support the amendment in spite of this.
