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Carl Menger and the Austrian School of Economics

World History

Blog05/28/2022

What is known as the Austrian School of Economics started in 1871 when Carl Menger published a slender volume under the title Grundsätze der Volkswirtschaftslehre.

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Covid-19: Assessing the Madness in Year 3

Big GovernmentStrategy

Blog05/25/2022

By making covid a political virus, progressive politicians, cheered on by their media, applied political "solutions" that failed to protect the most vulnerable people.

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Christianity and the Development of Human Capital: Challenging the Narratives

The EntrepreneurPoverty

Blog05/20/2022

While the standard secular narrative is that Christianity held back science and human development, history tells a different story, one of literacy and the development of human capital.

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Contrary to What Some Economists Claim, the Fed Can't Give the Economy a "Neutral" Rate of Interest

Central BanksThe FedMonetary PolicyCapital and Interest TheoryMonetary Theory

Blog05/07/2022

Fed chairman Jerome Powell recently claimed they were "targeting" the "neutral" interest rate. The Fed cannot set or even know that rate, for it doesn't come from government authorities.

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Cultural Traits and Work Ethic: Human Capital Matters

Economic FreedomEducation

Blog05/06/2022

Economic growth depends upon human capital development, which depends upon things like cultural views toward work and just plain showing up on time.

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Central Banks: Who Needs Them? No One

Booms and BustsCentral BanksThe FedBusiness CyclesMoney and Banking

Blog03/31/2022

Central banks, and especially the Federal Reserve System, continue to churn up inflation and the boom-and-bust cycles—in the name of "stabilizing" the economy.

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Commodities Do Not Cause Inflation. Money Printing Does.

Money and Banks

Blog03/31/2022

Some blame high prices, wages, the Ukraine war, or the weak recovery. The fact is currency destruction is at the heart of generalized price rises everywhere.

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Clarence Darrow vs. the State

Book Reviews

Blog03/30/2022

“Force is wrong,” Darrow wrote. “A bayonet in the hand of one man is no better than in the hand of another. It is the bayonet that is evil.”

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