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How Capitalism Redefined Masculine Virtue

Media and CultureU.S. History

Blog06/06/2023

In the preindustrial world, aggression and physical domination were often labeled as "masculine" virtues because they were useful for survival. The rise of the cooperative market economy changed all that. 

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Higher Corporate Profit Margins Aren't Causing Inflation

Booms and BustsEconomic PolicyInflation

Blog05/30/2023

The usual suspects such as Robert Reich claim that corporate profits are causing inflation. Actually, increases in corporate profits are tied to increases in inflation.

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How Markets Self-Corrected during the 1819 and 1919–21 Recessions

Booms and BustsKeynesMonetary PolicyU.S. EconomyBusiness Cycles

Blog05/23/2023

With the US economy facing a severe downturn, we should remember that two recessions ended quickly because the government didn't intervene at all.

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How to Teach Austrian Economics to the Neighbor Kids

Economic FreedomThe EntrepreneurLabor and WagesEntrepreneurship

Blog05/02/2023

Austrian economics is not dry theory. It helps us make sense of our world and shows that exchange and production have a place in our moral universe.

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Historical Effects of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

U.S. HistoryWorld History

Blog05/01/2023

While the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade have been well documented, people other than slave traders and slaveholders benefitted from it, with some surprising results.

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How the Dollar Became the World's Top Global Currency

Money and Banks

Blog04/29/2023

The dollar became the dominant global currency not so much because of its own merits, but because of the self-destruction of the pound sterling caused by the British state and central bank.

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How Greening the Economy Will Destroy America

Big GovernmentThe EnvironmentPolitics

We’re supposed to go along with Green Energy schemes—as we did with masks, school lockdowns, and vaccinations to stop covid—because our government, media, and “public interest” groups insist that we “follow the science.”

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Hacking Humanity: Transhumanism

Big GovernmentProgressivismSocialismThe Police State

Blog04/14/2023

Not only does the Great Reset promise us better weather and happiness (while owning nothing), it also promises to transform humanity itself. Some of us are not so sure.

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