Every government-based stimulus that has ever been tried has failed. This one is no different except that the failure might end up even more catastrophic.
Join tax historian Charles Adams for a week-long seminar in a new history of taxation from the ancient world to the present.
FDR followed up on Hoover’s attempted inflation by closing the banks and plotting an unprecedented inflation that ended in the paper money we use today.
Sponsored by James M. Wolfe.
Sponsored by Mark L. Hart III
Sponsored by Almaden Minerals Ltd.
The Mises Circle goes to Seattle to address contemporary issues in liberty, and the role of capitalism as the main force for every form of progress in our age.
Robert Higgs, editor of The Independent Review, is the author of the book Crisis and Leviathan, a survey of the episodic growth of the federal government in periods of war and economic crisis.
Libertarians must never compromise, even if it means accepting partial victories.
The history of the last great US monetary experiment in “quantitative easing” from 1934 to 1937 suggests that things could end badly.
