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Gold, Fiat, and the Fed

2026-04-06

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2026-04-06

On the Investment News Network with Charlotte McLeod, Dr. Jonathan Newman presents a primer on Austrian economics.

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When Corporations Resist the State: Ethics, AI, and the Limits of Government Power

2026-04-04

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2026-04-04

What happens when a corporation resists a government edict because company leaders believe the policy to be morally wrong? The ordeal of Anthropic is a current case in point.

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The Myth that Won’t Die: “War is Good for the Economy”

2026-04-04

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2026-04-04

One of the legacies of Keynesian thought is the belief that war is “good for the economy.” While war may help enable employment, nonetheless, its overall legacy is destructive, and even the jobs war “creates” are economically undesirable.

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The Myth that Won’t Die: “War is Good for the Economy”

2026-04-04

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2026-04-04

One of the legacies of Keynesian thought is the belief that war is “good for the economy.” While war may help enable employment, nonetheless, its overall legacy is destructive, and even the jobs war “creates” are economically undesirable.

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Gold Whiplash and the Petrodollar

2026-04-04

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2026-04-04

Gold and silver whip around with war and liquidity stress, while the Fed quietly rolls out “emergency” support. Mark Thornton explains what’s driving the moves.

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Barter, Media of Exchange, and Colonial America

2026-04-03

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2026-04-03

Despite the claims of the chartalists, early American monetary history tells a much different story than one falsely claiming state-issued fiat money undergirded the colonial economy. In fact, much of the historical evidence illustrates Menger’s monetary theory.

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The Ideological Impregnation of Thought

2026-04-03

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2026-04-03

However one may turn the matter, one cannot discover any reason why an ideological distortion of truth should be more useful to the bourgeoisie than a correct theory.

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Barter, Media of Exchange, and Colonial America

2026-04-03

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2026-04-03

Despite the claims of the chartalists and modern monetary theory advocates, early American monetary history tells a much different story. In fact, much of the historical evidence illustrates Menger’s theory.

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Why the Post Office and Non-Profits Share a Socialist Calculation Problem

2026-04-03

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2026-04-03

Government entities like the Postal Service operate in a world of market prices, so they are not fully socialist. However, they still are subject to the limitations of socialist calculation problems.

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The Golden Rule

2026-04-03

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2026-04-03

In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon reviews Joseph Salerno’s Money, Sound and Unsound, and still finds it golden.

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Why Naive, Pro-Democracy Classical Liberalism Doesn’t Work

2026-04-03

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2026-04-03

In this lecture from the 2026 Libertarian Scholars Conference, Ryan McMaken looks at how the old classical liberal program of democracy and constitutions has failed, and why we need a more realist view of the state and its many crimes.

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Roger Garrison: Pioneer of Digital Pedagogy at the Dawn of the Internet Age

2026-04-03

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2026-04-03

A tribute to the late Roger W. Garrison (1944–2026) was delivered at the opening reception of the Austrian Economics Research Conference (AERC) in Auburn, Alabama on March 19, 2026.

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The Duke Faculty and Administration Damaged the Intellectual Foundations of Higher Education

2026-04-02

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2026-04-02

By opposing justice and throwing aside the facts of hard science, the Duke faculty and administration damaged all of higher education during the infamous lacrosse hoax.

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There Is No Property-Rights Case for Birthright Citizenship

2026-04-02

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2026-04-02

The process of naturalization is a government-created "right" with no basis in property rights. In other words, there is no libertarian case for birthright citizenship.

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Why the US Regime Pretends Israel’s Nuclear Weapons Don’t Exist

2026-04-02

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2026-04-02

The existence of the arsenal makes the State of Israel ineligible for US aid under US law. This is a problem for the US regime which exploits Americans to send military aid to the State of Israel.

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The Duke Faculty and Administration Damaged the Intellectual Foundations of Higher Education

2026-04-02

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2026-04-02

By opposing justice and throwing aside the facts of hard science, the Duke faculty and administration damaged all of higher education during the infamous lacrosse hoax.

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“My Favorite Thing is to Take the Oil”

2026-04-02

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2026-04-02

It's unknown what Trump thinks is the real reason for the current war with Iran, but stealing the oil is perhaps on the list, right after bombing the country "back to the stone ages."

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The Hypocrisy of Western “Universal Values”

2026-04-02

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2026-04-02

The original western values such as juridical equality, political freedom, natural rights, and religious tolerance are being co-opted into a system of “positive” rights that are socially and morally destructive.

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Trump Is Right on Birthright Citizenship

2026-04-02

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2026-04-02

On this episode of Power and Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho discuss Pam Bondi being fired, the SCOTUS taking up Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship, and the difference between realist and naive libertarians.

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Corruption in the System

2026-04-02

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2026-04-02

Government corruption isn’t an anomaly. It is part of the system itself. We should expect government to be corrupt. Free markets are the antidote to this corruption.

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