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Can an increase in the supply of gold cause a boom-bust cycle? Mises believed it was theoretically possible but highly unlikely. Rothbard, on the...
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Can an increase in the supply of gold cause a boom-bust cycle? Mises believed it was theoretically possible but highly unlikely. Rothbard, on the...
Bob discusses common talking points that pro-free-trade economists often use when making the case against tariffs.
Now threatening citizens for what they post online, one would hardly believe that England had once possessed a hard-won tradition of limited government and...
The gold standard hampers the growth of government power, which helps people more effectively fight bad policy.
Individual rights originated in Western thinking. Today, it is the West that produces the ruling class that disdains individual rights and replaces them with...
People often stubbornly hold to false beliefs, one of them being that government regulation of driving prevents chaos. However, the opposite seems to be...
Unsurprisingly, Javier Milei’s free-market and antistate initiatives face opposition in Argentina. Whether he is successful depends on his being able to politically outlast his...
A common knock on libertarianism is that it is so individualistic that it rejects the concept of community. (Think of the political cartoon in...
Economists use time preference to explain the existence of interest, but the ability of people to postpone some present consumption in order to save...
Connor O’Keeffe joins Bob to discuss the recent antisemitism bill and why we should be defunding universities.
Vast sums are spent on “reforming” government schools, only to end up with the same lousy product. Thinking outside the box means abandoning public...
In publicly opposing Apartheid, William H. Hutt saw how legal segregation deprived black South Africans from pursuing legitimate economic goals. To Hutt, Apartheid deprived...
It was a fundamental mistake . . . to interpret economics as the characterization of the behavior of an ideal type, the homo oeconomicus....