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Central Bank Digital Currencies Would Bring Hyperinflation

U.S. History

Blog03/18/2023

The only thing that saves citizens from much higher prices is the fact that the transmission mechanism of monetary policy is independent and diversified. Imagine if that transmission was direct and had only one channel, the central bank itself.

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How the Fed’s 2008 Mortgage Experiment Fueled Today’s Housing Crisis

U.S. Economy

Any realistic review of the Federal Reserve’s MBS experiment would conclude that the Fed should stop buying mortgages.

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Influencers and Subjective Value: They Have Something to Teach Us

Free MarketsMedia and CultureSubjectivism

Blog03/17/2023

The latest from the world of social media is the role of "influencers." There is a perfectly good economic explanation for their popularity.

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Nonmeasure for Nonmeasure

DemocracyLibertarianismLiberalismPhilosophy

Blog03/17/2023

How do people in a pluralistic society live peacefully with each other? In his review of Kenneth McIntyre's book, David Gordon points to negative liberty as the best way to preserve values.

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No, We Don't Need More Nuclear Weapons

War and Foreign Policy

Blog03/17/2023

Advocates for more military spending tell us the taxpayer must pay to expand the US's nuclear arsenal.  Because of China. In truth, the US's arsenal is in no danger of not "keeping up."

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The Bank of England: Money Creation in Their Own Words

InflationMonetary PolicyMoney and BanksWorld History

Blog03/17/2023

Central banks usually don't admit their guilt in the destruction of money, but the Bank of England unwittingly comes clean.

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Reparations Are a Statist Cudgel for Bludgeoning Property Owners

Bureaucracy and RegulationPoliticsU.S. History

Blog03/16/2023

San Francisco, as well as the government of California, is calling for millions in "reparations" for black people in that state. Reparations, unfortunately, are fast becoming another anti-property-owner racket.

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The Fear of Mass Unemployment Due to Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Is Unfounded

CapitalismEconomic PolicyUnemployment

Blog03/16/2023

Ever since the Luddites rampaged through British textile factories in the early 1800s, people have feared that technology will result in mass unemployment. They were wrong then and are wrong now.

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