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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.
After the Indochina War, Vietnam was one of the poorest countries in the world, but dramatic free-market reforms have made this formerly socialist country...
The concrete effects of the destruction of money and property on human personality are demonstrated most vividly in the historical episode of the German...
Argentina’s economy has been plagued by increasing inflation since 2007, reaching a world record of 210 percent in 2023. Additionally, the economy has been...
In our current age of rampant monetary inflation and price inflation, good economics has become more relevant for ordinary people. Inflation is not some...
In ending the gold standard, Nixon was guided by Milton Friedman, who wrongly believed that the Fed could end recessions and cope with inflation...
Biden has embraced the trade war. But, if protectionism actually produced competitiveness, American steel manufacturers would have become world leaders long ago.
The Fed presumably has an “implied guaranty” from the Treasury, but it seems certain that Congress never dreamed that the Fed could experience the...