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How Much Do Central Banks Cost Us?

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Blog10/11/2017Karl-Friedrich Israel

Anti-gold advocates claim that precious metals are wasteful. This is hardly convincing when we look at the fat budgets and payrolls of central banks.

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The EU's Latest Screw-You to the UK Shows a Big Problem with Trade Agreements

Ryan McMaken

Most "free trade" agreement are really just ways to expand the regulatory state and rob the consumers of the benefits they might have gotten from actual free trade.

Trump's Betrayal of Julian Assange

Ron Paul

It is ironic that a president who has been the victim of so much deep state meddling has done the deep state’s bidding when it comes to Assange and Wikileaks. The deep state that Trump is serving by persecuting Assange is the same deep state that continues to plot his own ouster.

The WTO Is Both Irrelevant and Unnecessary

Ryan McMaken

The World Trade Organization was not the reason global trade was liberalized in past decades. And now, even if such a thing were desirable, the WTO is in no position to force liberalization on countries like the US, China, or India. Thus, the WTO is both unnecessary and irrelevant.

Central Banking since the 2008 Financial Crisis

Robert P. Murphy

In the wake of the financial crisis of 2008, the Federal Reserve and other central banks around the world adopted new “tools” to influence economic activity in addition to its standard open market operations.

Why Wall Street Bankers and Federal Lawyers Hate Michael Milken

William L. Anderson

Michael Milken was a threat to the complacent Wall Street cartels established by the New Deal. So ambitious prosecutors like Rudy Giuliani saw an opportunity to get in good with Wall Street by taking him down.

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