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There’s a new sheriff in town, and that spells trouble for the vast federal subsidies that undergird much of higher education. With more universities...
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William Nordhaus coined the term “Political Business Cycle” a half-century ago. The idea was that government authorities, particularly the central bank, would manipulate the...
Amtrak is always on the verge of reviving intercity rail traffic in the US, or at least that is what politicians want us to...
Mark Thornton digs into the gold-silver ratio—its wild swings, its history, and what it might mean for investors and the world at large.
The late P.T. Bauer provided much insight into the issue of the so-called First World sending aid to Third World nations in the name...
There’s a new sheriff in town, and that spells trouble for the vast federal subsidies that undergird much of higher education. With more universities...
Six hundred years before Carl Menger wrote his Principles, Thomas Aquinas was writing about the role of subjective valuation in economic exchanges. His work...
From the Middle Ages to Rousseau to the Industrial Revolution to Trotsky, historian Ralph Raico provides a refreshing free-market analysis of political thought.
Belief in the fairy tale known as Modern Monetary Theory not only is endemic in US academic and government circles, but is also making...
International organizations like the EU and UN are creations of states and serve the states’ elites. We can’t “improve” them or make them more...
By their nature, free markets promote harmony between people and increase overall standards of living. This view is radically different from the ones promoted...
Boom, bust, repeat. The Fed fuels bubbles, and now we’re watching them pop. Mark Thornton joins Scott Horton to dissect the economy’s next moves.
This episode explores the economic implications of deflation, debunking the mainstream fear that falling prices cripple economic growth.
Abraham Lincoln is best known for his role as a wartime president, but his economic policies were a precursor to the New Deal. From...