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This latest gold surge follows President Trump’s weekend threats of new tariffs on eight countries unless they support a U.S. purchase of Greenland.
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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...
This latest gold surge follows President Trump’s weekend threats of new tariffs on eight countries unless they support a U.S. purchase of Greenland.
The term “States’ Rights” is interpreted in many ways, but it refers to the separation of powers between states and the federal government. It...
Although some scholars have labeled the early Ming Dynasty as a proto-liberal state, they are mistaken. The Ming governance at that time was weak,...
The original 13 British colonies that made up the early United States had very different populations with decidedly different political and social outlooks.
Economists consider probability to be central to economic analysis, but, as Ludwig von Mises wrote, economic action involves unique and purposeful events, not random...
The rise of the state led to the rise of credentialism, however, credentialism neither guarantees competence nor quality.
Inflation is a government tool used to confiscate wealth from ordinary citizens and transfer it to government agents and others who are politically connected....
Bob revisits Böhm-Bawerk’s critique of the exploitation theory of interest to answer modern claims that billionaires like Elon Musk must have “stolen” their wealth...
With a record-height tower and a flooded credit system: 2026 may be when the curse returns.