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The Real Problem with Trump’s Intel Deal

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2025/08/27

The federal government taking an ownership stake in Intel is neither a promising new approach to governance nor an unprecedented leap into economic fascism. It’s simply Trump embracing the corrupt status quo he ran against with a superficial rebrand.

Powell Cares More About Fed “Independence” than...

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2025/08/27

Fed Chairman Jerome Powell’s claims to want to protect the “independence” of the Federal Reserve ring hollow. Following sound monetary policies is more important than the theoretical “independence” of the central bank.

The Great Delisting: Home Sellers Scoff at Peasant...

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2025/08/27

In case you haven‘t noticed, housing prices are not rising like they did a short time ago, thanks to higher interest rates. Bringing down those rates, however, will increase inflation and make housing less affordable.

President Trump Should Return to an "America First"...

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2025/08/26

After four years of unnecessarily confrontational foreign policy under President Biden, Americans elected Donald Trump in part for his promise to put America first at home and overseas.

How Scholarly Theories Impede the Search for...

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2025/08/26

Modern historians no longer seek historical truth but rather analyze history through series of politically-based narratives. But what happens when those narratives are effectively challenged? Mainstream historians then simply ignore the results and simply repeat what they have been saying.

Murray Rothbard on Flag Burning

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2025/08/26

The “Open Diplomacy” Fallacy

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2025/08/26

“Because these meetings are held in the glare of world-wide media coverage, the parties to a dispute will be reluctant to make concessions.”

Murray Rothbard on the US Embargo on Cuba

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2025/08/26

The US Cuban embargo continues, to the detriment of both countries. Not surprisingly, Murray Rothbard had strong opinions on the embargo, as he believed that US policies not only were self-defeating, but were outright harmful.

Book Review: Banking and Monetary Policy from the...

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2025/08/26

Joseph Salerno reviews Banking and Monetary Policy from the Perspective of Austrian Economics. Covering topics ranging from inflation targeting to cryptocurrency, this collection is indispensable reading for anyone interested in the Austrian monetary thought.

Book Review: Theoria Generalis: Das Wesen des...

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2025/08/26

Paul Gottfried reviews Ulrich Hintze's Theoria Generalis: Das Wesen des Politischen. Hintze argues that true political authority requires individual freedom, and he criticizes modern democracy for devolving into bureaucratic predation.

Book Review: The Gold Standard: Retrospect and Prospect

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2025/08/26

Patrick Newman reviews The Gold Standard: Retrospect and Prospect. The collection provides an honest assessment of the gold standard, highlighting both the strengths and limitations of the gold standard, while also addressing alternatives such as monetary rules and cryptocurrencies

Book Review: The Economists' Hour: False Prophets,...

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2025/08/26

David Gordon reviews Binyamin Appelbaum's The Economists' Hour. As a critique of free-market economics, the book fails, relying on appeals to competing values and misattributing government failures to the market.

Book Review: The Gold Standard: Retrospect and Prospect

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2025/08/26

Bob Murphy reviews The Gold Standard: Retrospect and Prospect. This is a useful collection for those who want an evenhanded analysis of the gold standard that extends to modern topics such as cryptocurrency and currency boards.

Book Review: The Emergence of Arthur Laffer: The...

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2025/08/26

Greg Kaza reviews Brian Domitrovic's The Emergence of Arthur Laffer. Alienated from academia during the stagflation era, Laffer was able to reach policymakers by presenting his ideas in a simple way, such as with his famous napkin Laffer curve.

Book Review: Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and...

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2025/08/26

David Gordon reviews Quinn Slobodian's Crack-Up Capitalism. Slobodian’s obsession with the evils of competition, which he considers a race to the bottom, is so great that it leads him to dismiss commonplace observations that everyone knows to be true.

Book Review: A Brief History of Equality

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2025/08/26

Mark Thornton reviews Thomas Piketty's A Brief History of Equality. The book is the siren song of communism: “economic justice” without any cost or noteworthy harm to society. In reality Piketty's solutions are implicitly violent and destructive.

Book Review: Capitalism: The Story Behind the Word

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2025/08/26

Chris Calton reviews Michael Sonenscher's Capitalism: The Story Behind the Word. The book meanders through abstract associations to claim that the division of labor is “worse” than capitalism without providing context or engaging with real historical developments.

Book Review: The Economics of Prosperity: Rethinking...

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2025/08/26

David Gordon reviews Shawn Ritenour's The Economics of Prosperity. The book shows how economic growth stems from entrepreneurship, the division of labor, and investments in capital and technology. These factors, Ritenour argues, are the key to prosperity in underdeveloped countries.

Book Review: 21st Century Monetary Policy: The...

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2025/08/26

Brendan Brown reviews Ben Bernanke's 21st Century Monetary Policy. Bernanke gives a blow-by-blow account of his actions as Fed chair and justifies them as the "evolving" nature of the Fed. Unsurprisingly, he refuses to recognize the malaise of monetary inflation.

Book Review: Cronyism: Liberty Versus Power in Early...

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2025/08/26

Tom DiLorenzo reviews Patrick Newman's Cronyism: Liberty Versus Power in Early America, 1607–1849. The book posits that early American history is best understood as a struggle between mercantilist elites seeking to plunder the people and libertarians advocating economic freedom.

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