Should Cash be Abolished?
The usefulness of money depends on it having some connection to physical money. Reducing money to a digitized abstraction would be a disaster.
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Asset-Price Inflation Heating Up with Nothing to Show For It
Obama is the first president since Hoover to not have a single year of over 3% GDP growth.
Week in Review: January 28 2017
As expected, the first week of the Trump administration has brought a mix of good and bad.
Advertisers Aren’t As Powerful As We Think
Experience suggests that advertising and propaganda aren't as powerful as we assume them to be. This has both economic and political implications.
A Tariff with Mexico Will Ensure Americans Pay for Border Wall
"Tariff," after all, is just a fancy word for "tax."
How Political Competition Made Europe Rich
Political decentralization is “the essence of the spirit of Europe.” It is what made room for the merchant to trade and for the worker to innovate.
The Cultural Background of Ludwig von Mises — New Formats Available
Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn's timeless essay "The Cultural Background of Ludwig von Mises" is now easier to read.
Beware, Dissenter of the Monetary Regime
Tim Duy takes to Bloomberg to warn the world about the possibility of "hard-money" advocates getting into the Fed.
Beware, Dissenter to the Monetary Regime
Tim Duy takes to Bloomberg to warn the world about the possibility of “hard-money” advocates getting into the Fed.
What the Tobacco Industry Did for Women
Far from being a tool of the so-called patriarchy, marketplace producers enthusiastically cater to anyone willing to join in.
