U.S. History

Just when the supposed threat of disinflation passed, now comes another frightful creation from the fearsome flation family: stagflation. Sean Corrigan explains.

Howard Ruff has returned with a new book, Safely Prosperous or Really Rich: Choosing Your Personal Financial Heaven, and another recommendation to buy gold. Hey, it was lucky for him in 1975, maybe it will work for him again to sell three million books.

If the goal is to increase confidence in money, writes Clifford Thies, putting Reagan's face on it won't do it.

Presented as part of the Mises Institute’s Austrian Workshop seminar series on 22 June 2004 in Auburn, Alabama.

Presented as part of the Mises Institute’s Summer Seminar Series in Auburn, Alabama, on 31 May 2004.

Proposals for monetary reform are ubiquitous, but Murray N. Rothbard argued for the 100% gold coin standard.

Given the reality that markets are self-regulating, how did the US economy (not to mention economies of other nations) become a morass of hundreds of thousands of state, local, and federal regulations that govern things to the minutest detail? Furthermore, why have we not seen a revolt of business owners and consumers alike, who ultimately pay the price for the modern regulatory state? The answer is both simple— and complex.

Eric Mattei explains the implications of 'civil rights' interventions: some must serve others regardless of their own personal choices.

Sponsored by the Mises Institute and held in Atlanta, Georgia; 26-27 September 1997.