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The World Looks to Abandon the Dollar as US Sanctions Tighten Their Grip

Ryan McMaken

The US's enthusiasm for sanctions means Europe is learning the price of doing business with the United States and with the dollar. They're now developing new ways to work around the the US-dominated financial system.

Huge Debt Got Us Hooked on Petrodollars — and on Saudi Arabia

Ryan McMaken

Petrodollars and petrodollar recycling are at the heart of what keeps the US debt and money-printing mechanism going. The geopolitical stakes are very high.

An Austrian Frame of Mind

Jeff Deist

The Marginal Revolutionaries: How Austrian Economists Fought the War of Ideas is a lively history of the astonishing influence prewar Viennese intellectuals had on the greater world, and continue to have in areas far beyond economics.

What Will It Take to Get the Public to Embrace Sound Money?

Brendan Brown

If the small sample size of monetary history is any guide, the combination of asset market crashes and high goods inflation empowers sound money forces in the political arena. At the moment, neither of those factors are in play.

The Many Ways Governments Create Monopolies

Murray N. Rothbard

Since outright grants of monopoly or quasi-monopoly would usually be considered baldly injurious to the public, governments have discovered a variety of methods of granting such privileges indirectly, as well as a variety of arguments to justify these measures.

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The World Looks to Abandon the Dollar as US Sanctions Tighten Their Grip

Huge Debt Got Us Hooked on Petrodollars — and on Saudi Arabia

An Austrian Frame of Mind

What Will It Take to Get the Public to Embrace Sound Money?

The Many Ways Governments Create Monopolies

Jeff Deist

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