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If employment reports continue to show growing economic stagnation, calls for more monetary inflation and government spending will only grow.
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Mark Thornton shares an in-depth interview with Jeremy McKeown on the long rivalry between Austrian and Keynesian economics, and why Austrian ideas may be...
Bob responds to James Rickards’ recent tweet on record U.S. gold exports driving an improved trade balance, walking through the official data on non-monetary...
Sowell’s Vision of the Anointed provides a compelling framework to examine key political processes.
Progressives sell state intervention into economic affairs as “protecting” consumers and workers. In all cases, free markets do a better job of protecting all...
If employment reports continue to show growing economic stagnation, calls for more monetary inflation and government spending will only grow.
Saifedean Ammous: “Property rights in Palestine have been replaced by a government agency that owns the majority of land, constantly steals more, never sells,...
In criticizing the progressive notion of equity, or equality of results, critics of such views embrace an order of “meritocracy.” F.A. Hayek, however, understood...
Bob uses clips from his recent interview with Eric Weinstein to explain why Weinstein thinks gauge theory can fix how economists measure the cost...
For more than 40 years, the Farmland Protection Policy Act has socialized US farmlands and transferred wealth to politically-connected people. What it hasn’t done...
The so-called K-shaped economy—where some experience positive growth and others negative growth—is perfectly explained by Austrian business cycle theory and the Cantillon effect.
On the economy, Trump gives himself a grade of “A+++++,” which is reminiscent of Hoover and other politicians who interpreted their economic failures as...
The GSEs have likely been told by the administration to buy up more mortgage debt to create the illusion that there is more demand...
Cuban hospitals are overwhelmed, pharma drugs are in short supply, and diagnostic tools are in short supply. The Cuban state is pretending nothing is...
While Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT) is popular in academic economics and finance, it fails to properly explain profits, mistakenly confusing entrepreneurial profit seeking with...