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Ryan McMaken takes a look at Rothbard’s seminal 1963 essay “War, Peace, and the State.”
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Even the federal government’s official data shows that price growth is well above the Federal Reserve’s two-percent target. In fact, price inflation is now...
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Murray Rothbard famously asked Cui bono? to help unearth government scandals. Kenya’s politicians certainly benefitted from the Eurobond affair.
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Ludwig von Mises had many insights about immigration. As one might expect, he foresaw problems with open borders, but also believed immigration could benefit...
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Record-low consumer confidence and record-strong corporate earnings aren’t a paradox: they’re the Cantillon effect in real time. Mark Thornton explains who inflation rewards, who...
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The US fiat monetary regime not only has given us inflation and boom-and-bust cycles, but it also is the main contributor to the out-of-control...
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The standard line among most economists is that deflation is as bad or even worse than inflation. In reality, the economy needs deflation now...
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Ryan McMaken looks at the latest jobs numbers form the federal government and why so many workers and families appear to think the economy...
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Overall, 64 percent of respondents sad that Trump’s decision to go to war with Iran was the wrong decision.
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Systems do not collapse when they finally become unstable; they appear stable until the moment their failure can no longer be ignored.
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Those who use Catholic social teaching to defend socialism forget Pope Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum, published in 1891, which strongly condemned socialism and defended...
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What might be the process of a society moving from being unfree to being free? Here is one scenario.
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The Shiller CAPE ratio has only been higher once in 150 years. The Buffett indicator is 2.5 standard deviations above trend. 40% of the...
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Last week’s CPI report, and this week’s PPI report both showed price inflation surging to multi-year highs, and not just on oil prices.