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Mainstream economists are at a loss to explain why the current regime of inflation and central bank interventions have been so economically devastating. Understanding...
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Mainstream economists are at a loss to explain why the current regime of inflation and central bank interventions have been so economically devastating. Understanding...
Inflation does more than just force up prices. It destroys the wealth-producing process, especially with young people who are prevented from acquiring the same...
The countries seen as targets to follow Brexit are Austria, Hungary, Italy and Poland, according to leaked details of the US national security strategy.
On Wednesday, the silver price hit $63.86 per ounce — nearly double its level a year ago — after the Federal Reserve trimmed rates...
Billy Joel memorialized the workers of the steel industry in his 1982 song “Allentown.” While popular culture seems to dwell on tragedy, the creative-destruction...
When we think of the term “equality,” most of us think of it in a formal sense: equality under the law. However, political elites...
Prompted by an online debate about whether economics belongs with the hard sciences, Bob reviews common defenses of mainstream practice and explains why they...
Keynesian orthodoxy claims that the cause of recessions is a decline in so-called aggregate demand. Besides confusing cause-and-effect, Keynesians don’t understand that downturns are...
Roger Williams, the Baptist minister whose libertarian views ran afoul of the Massachusetts Bay Colony authorities, should be honored as one of this country’s...
Inflation is not just an economic phenomenon. It also undercuts the foundations of a civilization, leading to the breakdown of society itself.
Four interviews in one cut: gold’s whiplash, ballooning debt, and what it all means for your wallet.
Roger Williams, the Baptist minister whose libertarian views ran afoul of the Massachusetts Bay Colony authorities, should be honored as one of this country’s...
Modern progressivism is based upon the notion of equity—equal outcomes. However, as Ludwig von Mises wrote, classical liberalism had its roots in liberty, which...
Mainstream economists and others speak of the Consumer Price Index as the measure of inflation. Yet, the CPI is nothing more than a weighted...