U.S. History

Recorded at Mises University 2013.

At the end of the day, Friedman jettisoned the gold standard for a remarkably statist reason.

The very idea that the FOMC would function as faithful monetary eunuchs was sheer fantasy.

Social insurance co-opts all potential sources of political opposition, making it inherently a fiscal doomsday machine.

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."

Fannie Mae’s journey started with a filing cabinet containing a few thousand mortgage notes christened as the nation’s “secondary mortgage market.”

FDR locked in a destructive worldwide régime of economic nationalism that eventually led to war.

Did Lincoln lead America through its greatest crises – or cause them?

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.

The American government has transformed itself from “humanitarians with a guillotine” to “humanitarians with weapons of mass murder and destruction.”