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

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2025/08/26

Greg Kaza reviews Ben Bernanke's 21st Century Monetary Policy: The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to COVID-19. The book is a candid yet self-justifying defense of the Federal Reserve's monetary policy that refuses to acknowledge how stimulus has driven 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.

Book Review: Money and the Rule of Law: Generality...

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2025/08/26

Peter Earle reviews Money and the Rule of Law: Generality and Predictability in Monetary Institutions. This edited volume delivers a timely critique of the Federal Reserve's discretionary monetary policy, arguing that a binding legal structure is needed to check its mission creep.

It’s the Root That’s Killing Us

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2025/08/25

For all of the talk about the need for “limited government,” we should always remember that the government has a legal monopoly on violence, and it uses that legal privilege often.

QJAE: The Incompleteness of Central Planning

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2025/08/25

Even if all the practical challenges could be overcome, social economic calculation and planning are still impossible from a computation-theoretic point of view.

Full text of Jerome Powell's Jackson Hole speech

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2025/08/25

Rate cut to "stimulate" jobs? Powell: "while the labor market appears to be in balance, it is a curious kind of balance that results from a marked slowing in both the supply of and demand for workers."

JLS: “Some Necessary Iconoclasm”: Contesting Liberty...

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2025/08/25

Though progressive reformers were met with mixed success, the theoretical shift away from natural rights left a lasting legacy in the American political landscape.

Israel’s Man Inside the CIA Betrayed the US, New...

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2025/08/25

The files provide a fresh and often disturbing look at a spy described by historian Jefferson Morley as “a leading architect of America’s strategic relationship with Israel.”

The Fed Is To Blame For The Dollar’s Recent Weakness....

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2025/08/25

Reports of “dollar death” are greatly exaggerated and fail to answer a simple question: What is the alternative?

Does a Government Budget Surplus Contribute to...

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2025/08/25

Keynesian economists claim government budget surpluses are national savings, but real savings drive capital development. A surplus just means more revenue to the government, not the private economy.

Go Ahead and Rage at Boomers, But the Problem Is the...

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2025/08/25

Our corrupt economic system was created by people born decades before the Boomers were adults. The boomers just got lucky in a system that created vast wealth inequality.

Trump White House takes a $10B stake in Intel

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2025/08/25

The very definition of socialism: government ownership of the means of production. The US federal government now owns 10% of intel.

Why the Drug War?

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2025/08/25

Control and money. That’s what drives the war on drugs.

New-Home Sales Dip in July as Homebuilders Struggle...

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2025/08/25

The median sales price of new houses sold in July was $403,800, down 5.9% from a year earlier and the lowest price since November 2024.

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