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Gold Will Destroy the Keynesian Fallacies

KeynesMonetary PolicyU.S. HistoryWorld HistoryGold Standard

Blog08/26/2023

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

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Government Imposed "Competition" Harms Competition

Bureaucracy and RegulationCronyism and CorporatismEconomic FreedomEconomic PolicyPoliticsU.S. Economy

Blog08/25/2023

President Biden says he is going to unleash regulators to bring more "competition" to the economy. This is an oxymoron.

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Golf Merger Is Opposed by Congress. This Is Misguided

Big GovernmentEconomic PolicyMedia and CulturePolitics

Blog08/15/2023

Members of Congress claim to be "concerned" over the proposed merger between LIV Golf and the PGA Tour. They should be supporting it or, even better, backing off completely.

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Government Redistribution Is the REAL Trickle-Down Economics

Bureaucracy and RegulationCronyism and CorporatismProgressivism

Blog05/19/2023

President Biden recently claimed that "trickle-down economics" doesn't work but transferring wealth from taxpayers to politically connected people is the real trickle-down economics.

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Government Budget Deficits Cannot Stimulate True Economic Growth

Big GovernmentThe FedKeynesTaxes and Spending

Blog04/25/2023

A central tenet of Keynesian economics is that governments must run budget deficits to stimulate economic growth. But government spending actually shrinks the economy.

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Governments Can't Blame Inflation on Energy and Putin Anymore

Money and Banks

Blog03/29/2023

We are all poorer, even if headline price inflation is slightly lower. Slowing CPI growth does not mean lower prices, just a slower pace of destruction of the purchasing power of money.

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Government Is as Government Does

Big GovernmentBureaucracy and RegulationCronyism and CorporatismDecentralization and SecessionSocialismTaxes and Spending

Blog03/13/2023

If we have learned anything from hundreds of years of government oppression and atrocities, one thing is certain: government isn't our friend.

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Gustave de Molinari, First Anarcho-Capitalist

World History

Blog03/06/2023

Molinari's "liberal principles had been proclaimed by Cobden, Gladstone and Bright in England, and by Turgot, Say, Chevalier and Bastiat in France."

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