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Why Can’t I Have My Own Money Printer?

2026-01-12

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What would be the economic consequences if one individual had a money printer? Now trace that out to a central bank and government.

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Economic Theory Explains Economic Data, Not the Other Way Around

2026-01-12

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Most economists subscribe to a belief in “positive economics,” which means that economic theory flows from economic data. Thus, all theory can be tested for falsification at any time. Austrian economics, however, begins with economic theory, which is used to interpret the real world.

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Trump Orders Top Army Officials to ‘Draw Up Plan’ to Invade Greenland: Report

2026-01-12

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2026-01-12

The Mail reports Trump has asked the Joint Special Operations Command to come up with an invasion plan, but the joint chiefs are resisting because they believe an invasion would be illegal and lack congressional support.

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Trump Says He Expects To ‘Run’ Venezuela for Years

2026-01-12

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President Trump has told The New York Times that he expects to “run” Venezuela for many years following the US attack on Caracas to abduct President Nicolas Maduro.

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Trump’s Justice Dept. Launches Criminal Probe against the Fed’s Powell

2026-01-12

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2026-01-12

This feud is little more than two factions within the Federal government fighting over how exactly to use the Fed’s many powers to inflate, exploit, and help fund an ever expanding federal government.

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Sovereign Credit, Affordability, and the Crisis Ratchet

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What if the affordability crisis is not a failure of markets at all? What if it is the predictable outcome of how modern governments finance themselves?

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The Fight for Liberty: Past, Present, and Future

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Money and Power: Fiat Currency, Monetary Corruption, and the Architecture of Extraction

2026-01-11

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Each economic crisis brought on by loose money brings on a “solution” of...looser money. This pattern is not just a threat to the economy but to our very freedom itself.

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Fiat Currency, Monetary Corruption, and the Architecture of Extraction

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2026-01-11

Each economic crisis brought on by loose money brings on a “solution” of...looser money. This pattern is not just a threat to the economy but to our very freedom itself.

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Did the Articles of Confederation Fail? Probably Not

2026-01-10

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The standard explanation for the Constitutional Convention was that the Articles of Confederation were a failure. However, the Articles actually worked the way they were supposed to work. Unfortunately, the advocates of a strong central government ultimately got their way.

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History of Hyperinflation

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Hyperinflation isn’t ancient history. It’s a recurring policy failure with war-level damage.

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Environmentalism is Anti-Humanism

2026-01-09

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2026-01-09

Anti-impact environmentalists want you dead; they will settle, in the short term, for you to feel guilty for existing, producing and consuming, and willing to comply with any degree of central planning and freedom curtailment to “save the planet” from you.

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Decentralize the Skies: A Swift Regional Model to Fix India’s Aviation Mess

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The US is not the only country with a broken air traffic control system due to state control. India's system also is in a statist mess. The solution is to get government out of the business of ATC.

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Cynicism Redeemed: My 2025 Epigrams

2026-01-09

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As an official Public Policy Hooligan, James Bovard is well-known for some of his zingers. Here are some he wrote in 2025.

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Did the Articles of Confederation Fail? Probably Not

2026-01-09

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2026-01-09

The standard explanation for the Constitutional Convention was that the Articles of Confederation were a failure. However, the Articles actually worked the way they were supposed to work. Unfortunately, the advocates of a strong central government ultimately got their way.

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Environmentalism is Anti-Humanism

2026-01-09

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2026-01-09

Anti-impact environmentalists want you dead; they will settle, in the short term, for you to feel guilty for existing, producing and consuming, and willing to comply with any degree of central planning and freedom curtailment to “save the planet” from you.

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Crispy Is Good!

2026-01-09

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2026-01-09

In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon reviews Crispin Sartwell’s Against the State: An Introduction to Anarchist Political Theory and finds much to like.

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The Future of Europe: An Italian View

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"Since we were not able to have a new economic era in reality, we insisted on having it in appearance. So we raised nominal wages and incomes; but we paid them in a fictitious money..."

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Why Vivek Is So Wrong about the Founding of the United States

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Vivek Ramaswamy promotes a fictional version of American history in which a handful of people created America and that culture and religion are canceled out by an ideological "creed." In truth, the American nation and the American state are two different things.

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Cutting Interest Rates Isn’t a Cure‑All for the Economy

2026-01-09

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2026-01-09

The Fed is cutting its discount rate again, but Americans will be disappointed with the results, as the Fed’s latest action only contributes to the boom-and-bust cycle.

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