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The “benchmark” Thanksgiving meal is cheaper only because Wal-Mart greatly reduced the size of the meal, and then declared it more affordable.
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In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon reviews Bruce Goldberg’s Why Schools Fail and finds much to like. Not surprisingly, elite progressive “experts”...
When it comes to the great political economist John C. Calhoun, most people love him or hate him. In this episode, economic historian Patrick...
The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics invites submissions for a special issue commemorating the centennial of the founding of the Austrian Institute for Business...
A. Mitchell Innes—a chartalist pioneer—wrote a pamphlet “What Is Money?” (1913) which found a credulous and ideologically sympathetic audience in J. M. Keynes.
The “benchmark” Thanksgiving meal is cheaper only because Wal-Mart greatly reduced the size of the meal, and then declared it more affordable.
Mainstream economists and others speak of the Consumer Price Index as the measure of inflation. Yet, the CPI is nothing more than a weighted...
One of the most enduring myths of American History is that Herbert Hoover was a laissez-faire advocate who “did nothing” while the U.S. economy...
We libertarians may be anti-state, but that we are emphatically not anti-society or opposed to the real world, however contaminated it might be.
Neither Congress nor President Trump speak anymore about a balanced budget. Instead, the Republicans and Democrats compete with each other to see who can...
The revolutionaries include the pamphleteer writing in his study, the journalist, the agitator, the organizer, the campus activist, the theoretician, the philanthropist.
The New York Times claimed in its 1619 Project that plantation slavery was the basis for American capitalism. However, research shows that the plantations...
The government “shutdown” and the so-called threat to the food stamp program may be abated for now, but we need to understand why this...
On this episode of Power & Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho talk about Trump’s FDR-like proposal of a 50-year mortgage and the unfortunate reality...