U.S. History
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Milton Friedman: Freshwater Keynesian
At the end of the day, Friedman jettisoned the gold standard for a remarkably statist reason.
Unshackling the Fed
The very idea that the FOMC would function as faithful monetary eunuchs was sheer fantasy.
Social Security: The New Deal’s Fiscal Ponzi
Social insurance co-opts all potential sources of political opposition, making it inherently a fiscal doomsday machine.
The Soviet Bogeyman
Since the time of Lenin, the Soviet Union, vis-à-vis the other Great Powers, consistently pursued a policy of what they long termed “peaceful coexistence."
The New Deal Origins of Fannie Mae and the Government-Housing Complex
Fannie Mae’s journey started with a filing cabinet containing a few thousand mortgage notes christened as the nation’s “secondary mortgage market.”
FDR: Sowing the Seeds of Chaos
FDR locked in a destructive worldwide régime of economic nationalism that eventually led to war.
Everything You Were Never Taught About “The Great Emancipator”
Did Lincoln lead America through its greatest crises – or cause them?
The Hoover-Roosevelt Depression Revisited
This extensive work supplements and verifies Rothbard’s arguments in <em>America's Great Depression</em> and extends the analysis to the Roosevelt New Deal era.
