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The Road to Hyperinflation

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2025/09/06

Red + green = brown. Mark Thornton shows how towering debt and easy money set the stage for hyperinflation.

Interventionist Non-Interventionism

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2025/09/05

While libertarians, and many conservatives, often rightly discuss problems of government intervention, there is a counterintuitive category where the government simultaneously monopolizes, taxes, and refuses to provide promised services.

Pronatalism and Intervention Spirals: The Eastern Case

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2025/09/05

After being bamboozled by the fake crisis of “overpopulation” for a half-century, the nations with advanced economies are coming to grips with the “birth dearth” problems ahead of them. Not surprisingly, governments are compounding their earlier anti-population errors.

Politicizing a Politicized Fed and the Value of Leisure

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2025/09/05

Jonathan Newman joins Ryan and Connor this week to discuss the latest developments in Trump’s campaign to “takeover” the Fed, the current state of the jobs market, and the misconceptions people have about how economists value the choice not to work.

Liberating Liberty: A Dutch Treat

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2025/09/05

In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon reviews Liberating Liberty; Life, Liberty, the Pursuit of Happiness and the Creator of Man by Bert Schwitters, praising the author's insights into the founding of the United States.

Central banks now hold more gold than US Treasuries...

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2025/09/05

For the first time since 1996, central banks’ foreign exchange holdings hold more gold than US Treasuries.

How 1971 Broke the Economy—And Why Only Austrians Can...

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2025/09/05

Nixon’s 1971 decision didn’t just close a gold window—it opened the door to a fiat future of perpetual inflation, asset bubbles, moral hazard, and chronic economic dysfunction.

Trouble Right Here in Sin City

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2025/09/05

Las Vegas tourism has often been taken as a barometer of America’s economic mood, and the latest data isn’t encouraging.

Donald Trump and the Mythology of Expert Governance

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2025/09/04

President Trump’s attempts to remake federal agencies has generated fierce opposition from progressives, who believe that government led by experts can solve most of our problems. Reality tells us something different.

Did the United States Have Only One Founder?

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2025/09/04

When most people speak of the founders of the United States, Thomas Paine rarely comes to mind. However, few men were more influential in rallying the American colonials to independence.

Major conservative split over Israel spills out into...

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2025/09/04

Conservatives increasingly oppose the socialist State of Israel, and want out of the US's pro-Israel wars. The old guard is very mad about this.

What Happened to the Profit and Loss System?

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2025/09/04

Profits and losses play an important role in a free market system. However, as government intervenes to protect politically-connected firms from losses, the entire market becomes distorted and less reliable.

DOJ Opens Criminal Investigation Into FOMC's Lisa Cook

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2025/09/04

Cook allegedly committed mortgage fraud, but the prosecution is really part of an effort to put more Trump personnel on the Fed Board of Governors.

The US Now Has More Unemployed People than Job Openings

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2025/09/04

This does not bode well for new potential workers entering the labor force. Remarkably, things look especially bad for recent college graduates.

Most Trump tariffs are not legal, US appeals court rules

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2025/09/04

Trump claimed he could single-handedly raise taxes (tariffs) under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. The appeals court disagreed.

America Should Follow Iran’s Lead and Legalize Organ...

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2025/09/04

Unfortunately, the only country to have accepted a semi-free market in organs is Iran; however, the results there have been stunning.

The Venezuela Military Deployment Is about Cronyism,...

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2025/09/03

President Trump has deployed naval vessels off the coast of Venezuela, citing its escalation of the war on drugs. However, the true motivation for Washington’s involvement in the region is more likely related to disputed oil claims affecting well-connected energy companies.

The Short-Lived German Free Trade Movement

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2025/09/03

John Prince Smith, a British national who settled in Germany, led a free-trade movement in that country in the mid-19th century. Unfortunately, his movement ultimately was overpowered by the rise of Bismarck's Realpolitik.

How Democratic Socialism Inverts the Logic of Civil...

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2025/09/03

Portrayed as a socialist system that is established through the democratic voting system and not imposed by revolutionary violence, democratic socialism leads to an ossified, bureaucratic, iron-fisted system.

The Venezuela Military Deployment Is About Cronyism,...

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2025/09/03

President Trump has deployed naval vessels off the coast of Venezuela, citing its escalation of the war on drugs. However, the true motivation for Washington’s involvement in the region is likelier related to disputed oil claims affecting well-connected energy companies.

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