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The financial analyst Richard Daughty, whose pen name was Mogambo Guru, passed away four years ago, but while he was alive, he produced spot-on criticisms of the US government and its inflation rocket fuel booster, the Federal Reserve System.

The Appalachian region, while always relatively poor, had strong families and institutions that held things together. In the aftermath of the expansion of the welfare state and the shrinking of the iron, steel, and coal industries, we have seen social breakdowns and increasing drug addiction.

Time is a unique resource in economics because we cannot create more of it and are subject to its limitations. Ludwig von Mises and the Austrians understand the role of time in economic better than most other mainstream economists.

In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon revisits Wilmoore Kendall’s The Conservative Affirmation, which takes issue with Abraham Lincoln and his views on equality.

Government policy regarding patents is based upon the belief that no one would invent anything without some monopoly privileges. There is good reason to question that belief and the resulting policies.

Viewing the Declaration of Independence as the act that created one consolidated American nation is a common historical anachronism, which projects a later nationalist understanding backward onto the founding era.

The recent primary defeat of Thomas Massie will deprive this country of a free-market and anti-war voice. How should libertarians respond?

The Federal Reserve continues to destroy the economy’s savings base through a combination of artificially low interest rates and inflation. This war on savings will not end anytime soon.

In attacking progressivism in a recent speech, Clarence Thomas has been pilloried in the media and by politicians and academics. However, Thomas was correct: progressivism has brought one disaster after another, all the while empowering the worst of state actors.