U.S. History

Keynes denounced monetary gold as "a barbarous relic." In the end, it will be that "barbarous relic" that overthrows the regime of paper currency.

Forget the notion that the Armed Forces are under civilian control.What the generals want, the generals get.

Washington is paranoid of current Chinese actions. However, it is Washington that has been the aggressor in world affairs.

The Biden administration is unleashing the USDA on small farmers, attempting to regulate them out of business. This is done to protect not the public's health, but politically connected agriculture interests.

Since the end of World War II, the US dollar has been the world's reserve currency. That status may well change because US monetary authorities insist on inflating the dollar into oblivion.

On this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan and Tho look at the domestic costs of 9/11 and its continuing impact on Americans.

After governments create crises, they use those crises to seize new powers. After the crisis subsides, governments give up some, but not all, of their new authority, which we call the ratchet effect.

As politicians at all levels debate paying black Americans "reparations" for chattel slavery, a careful study of the wealth gaps between ethnic groups shows that ethnic prejudice explains very little. Other factors matter more.

In a more reasonable world, people like Cheney, Rice, Bolton, et al., would all be forgotten, shamed, and disgraced for overseeing multiple disastrous wars abroad and the creation of a police state at home. Unfortunately, we don't live in a more reasonable world. 

Contrary to the government's line that "inflation hurts everyone," inflation really is a wealth transfer from those without political power to the politically connected.