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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...
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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...
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Sowell’s Vision of the Anointed provides a compelling framework to examine key political processes.
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Progressives sell state intervention into economic affairs as “protecting” consumers and workers. In all cases, free markets do a better job of protecting all...
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Constitutionalism gives us the expectation of governance according to rules that everyone from those that are governed to the ones that govern are expected...
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This week, Dr. Gordon reviews a new work— Reinterpreting Libertarianism: New Directions in Libertarian Studies—and offers insights on some of the contributions.
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Ryan McMaken and historian Larsen Plyler talk about how the Americans of the 1770s envisioned a new community of independent and sovereign states. The...
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Throughout history, Jews have been denounced as “moneylenders,” yet, as Carl Menger noted, there are very good reasons why Jewish people have been overrepresented...
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Menger said alternative monetary theories were “unhistorical,” one could argue that Menger’s theory also lacks historical evidence necessary to verify his theory. Did Menger...