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Frederic Bastiat is an often unsung hero of 19th Century economic thought. His lessons on freedom and trade are timeless and what he wrote...
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Frederic Bastiat is an often unsung hero of 19th Century economic thought. His lessons on freedom and trade are timeless and what he wrote...
Calhoun emphasized the principle that the states were sovereign and independent and not merely the creation of the federal government.
Modern politics does not produce people of character and certainly there are few, if any, statesmen left on the scene. John C. Calhoun was...
Perhaps John Maynard Keynes’ best con job was convincing people that a growing economy needs inflation, lots of inflation. As David Gordon points out,...
President-Elect Trump has been threatening tariffs against BRICS countries unless they abandon their plans to abandon the US dollar. While Trump may come off...
Mainstream economists today examine economic phenomena from a “black box” perspective in which they look at inputs and outputs without trying to understand causal...
As we see from Jamaica‘s experience, attempts by the government to be entrepreneurial misallocate resources, waste money, and achieve poor results.
Thanks to unrelenting propaganda from the establishment media, a large number of Americans are suffering from what is diagnosed as “climate anxiety.”
We have reached this point: the government keepers of money do not even understand what money is or why inflation is harmful. To them,...
Rent control always results in housing shortages and deteriorating housing stock. Governments and activists, unfortunately, never learn any lessons.
Can an increase in the supply of gold cause a boom-bust cycle? Mises believed it was theoretically possible but highly unlikely. Rothbard, on the...