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To Prevent Future Busts, Rothbard's America's Great Depression Must Be Reckoned With

Book ReviewsBooms and BustsAustrian Economics Overview

Blog03/14/2023

The only way the current bust and any future ones can possibly be mitigated is by following Rothbard’s explanation of the Great Depression and taking those lessons to heart, else we will be doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past.

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The Theory and Practice of Conspiracy

Cronyism and CorporatismPoliticsWorld History

Blog03/14/2023

Collusion was a way of life with state-chartered enterprises. Little has changed, as firms with political connections still gain profits from their collusion with the state.

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The Phillips Curve Is an Economic Fable

InflationPraxeology

Blog03/13/2023

Keynesians and fellow travelers hold the Phillips curve to be sacrosanct. But because the Phillips curve cannot establish causality, it is useless as economic theory.

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The Fed's Huge Monetary Overhang Keeps Job Totals Up as Real Wages Fall

U.S. Economy

Blog03/11/2023

The current job market strength partly reflects the ongoing monetary overhang from years of breakneck growth in money-supply inflation. The $6 trillion in money that was newly created since 2020 is still very much a factor.

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The Balfour Declaration

Austrian Economics OverviewPhilosophy and Methodology

Blog03/10/2023

Teaching high schoolers economics means teaching Austrian principles.

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The Censored Generation

DemocracyMedia and CultureProgressivism

Blog03/09/2023

Never before have we seen an entire generation of young Americans being censored—and self-censoring—for making innocuous statements. This does not end well.

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The "Meritocracy" Was Created by and for the Progressive Ruling Class

U.S. History

Blog03/07/2023

All of Al Gore's children went to Harvard. Are we really to believe that this is because the Gore kids had the most "merit"? The only real  meritocracy is in the marketplace. 

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The Impossibility of Equality

Blog03/02/2023

Income can never be equal. Income must be considered, of course, in real and not in money terms; otherwise there would be no true equality. We publish this in honor of what would have been Murray Rothbard's 97th birthday.

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