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By Compensating Slave Owners, Great Britain Negotiated a Peaceful End to Slavery

DemocracyProperty RightsWorld History

Blog09/08/2022

By compensating slave owners for the abolition of slavery, Great Britain ended the scourge of chattel slavery long before it was ended in the Americas.

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Booms, Busts, and Statistics: What the Mainstream Gets Wrong

Austrian Economics Overview

"Economics is about how we behave, which comes from our personal valuation, in and relative to the physical world."

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Blame the Fed for Both the Inflationary Boom and the Inevitable Bust

Money and Banks

Blog09/01/2022

Powell isn't a villain for pulling his foot off the money-creation accelerator a little. No, Powell's villainy stems from his role in helping create the boom in the first place.

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Biden's Student Loan Scheme Benefits the Ruling Class (Again)

Big GovernmentEconomic PolicyTaxes and Spending

Blog08/29/2022

With a declaration of a fake crisis and twisting an obscure law, President Joe Biden has invoked a massive wealth transfer that benefits the most privileged people in our society.

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Back to the Future: Progressives Imagine the Good Old Days of Price Controls

Economic PolicyInflationPrice ControlsProgressivism

Blog06/23/2022

Inflation is raging and progressives want action. What kind of action? They want to return to the 1970s regime of price controls.

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Bastiat Predicted the Baby Formula Crisis 170 Years before It Happened

Economic PolicyPrice ControlsProtectionism and Free Trade

Blog06/04/2022

Although Biden presented the formula shortage as caused by "forces" outside the USA, the shortage is homegrown. Bastiat could have explained why.

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Baby Formula: Thank Protectionists and the FDA for the Shortage

U.S. Economy

Blog05/13/2022

With the shortage have come the usual half-baked bromides about "evil corporations" and how they aren't regulated enough. The real fault lies with welfare statists, Trump-style protectionists, and the FDA. 

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