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As I noted dudderday on Lew’s blog, an Objectivist blog claimed that

Jim Cook has an outstanding column that posted today, wherein he notes M

Fed Res outright debt holdings + Fed Repos + Foreign CB Custody accts = Total (blns)

To answer a reader question, I revisited Rothbard’s transition plan for 100% gold.

Peer review, the sacred cow of the scholarly world, is often a hurdle that those of us with less-than-conventional ideas sometimes find difficult t

A role for government is to insure against every possible risk that markets do not cover,

I have some vague memory of a time when the idea of American conservatism had something to do with a suspicion of an omnipotent autocratic state.

Kwame Antony Appiah, in a piece for the NYT Mag designed to be the &#8

Well, the grouches didn’t ruin it for us, did they?

In an interesting turn, the public schools of New York have become the beneficiaries of fashionable philanthropy dollars.