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Population Doomster and False Prophet of Ecological Apocalypse Paul Ehrlich Has Died

2026-03-16

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2026-03-16

Paul Ehrlich, the leading false prophet of inevitable environmental doom and author of the infamous The Population Bomb, has died at age 93.

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Is Another Stone Age in the Making?

2026-03-16

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2026-03-16

As war drums beat again, this time against Iran, we ask ourselves if recklessness from Donald Trump and European and Israeli leaders is pushing us to catastrophe.

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Popular Interest Rate Theory Describes but Fails to Explain

2026-03-16

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2026-03-16

Milton Friedman and others tried to explain interest rates using liquidity, economic activity, and inflation expectations. These things, however, only describe interest but do not explain it. Only the Austrian theory of time preference correctly explains interest.

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Gold Is Sounding the Alarm on Debt, the Dollar, and the Next Crisis

2026-03-16

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2026-03-16

On the Daniela Cambone Show, Mark Thornton explains why central banks are dumping Treasuries for gold, why US debt is hitting a point of no return, and why silver could move even faster.

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Popular Interest Rate Theory Describes but Fails to Explain

2026-03-16

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2026-03-16

Milton Friedman and others tried to explain interest rates using liquidity, economic activity, and inflation expectations. These things, however, only describe interest but do not explain it. Only the Austrian theory of time preference correctly explains interest.

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Cultural Marxism Masquerading as True History

2026-03-16

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2026-03-16

Modern academic historians have been captured by the cultural Marxists, no matter how much they deny the obvious truth.

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Non-Intervention Without the Fairy Tale of Sovereignty

2026-03-16

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2026-03-16

“Humanitarian intervention” sells itself as a moral shortcut: bypass the messy politics, send in the troops, stop the monster.

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Is Another Stone Age in the Making?

2026-03-16

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2026-03-16

As war drums beat again, this time against Iran, we ask ourselves if recklessness from Donald Trump and European and Israeli leaders is pushing us to catastrophe.

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How Medical Licensing Serves Big Pharma at the Expense of Public Health

2026-03-14

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2026-03-14

The purpose of medical licensing is not to protect consumers but the financial interests of privileged trade organizations allied with Big Pharma.

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Cultural Marxism Masquerading as True History

2026-03-14

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2026-03-14

Modern academic historians have been captured by the cultural Marxists, no matter how much they deny the obvious truth.

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The Theory of the Bottom 99%

2026-03-14

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2026-03-14

The “bottom 99%” aren’t losing to markets: they’re losing to the Cantillon effect.

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Revisiting Colonial Massachusetts and Mises’s Taxonomy of Money

2026-03-13

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2026-03-13

Contrary to what the Modern Monetary Theory advocates and their Chartalist allies are claiming, the 1690 colonial Massachusetts issuance of fiat money did not create an enlightened moment in U.S. monetary history. Instead, it was a monetary bait-and-switch.

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Only 13% of Republicans oppose the Iran War

2026-03-13

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2026-03-13

"77 percent of [Republicans] support the war, on average. But that’s exactly what we’d expect for almost any Trump policy."

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Deleting the State: Skoble’s Deleter

2026-03-13

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2026-03-13

Is the state necessary? In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon follows Aeon J. Skoble’s argument that we can do without the state and finds there is much to like in Skoble’s logic.

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Oil price surge sparks fears of $200 barrel amid Iran war

2026-03-13

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2026-03-13

"Wright's use of the word "unlikely" was a veiled concession that a spike to $200 was possible, though he repeated that the price jump would be weeks not months."

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Rothbard at 100: Five Economic Insights That Still Matter

2026-03-13

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2026-03-13

In commemoration of Murray Rothbard’s 100th birthday, Bob shares five “greatest hits” from Rothbard’s economics, covering deficits vs. inflation, monopoly theory, excess capacity, the time structure of production, and his reconstruction of utility and welfare economics.

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GDP growth revised down bigtime to a sluggish 0.7% for Q4

2026-03-13

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2026-03-13

Growth in gross domestic product was down sharply from 4.4% in last year’s Q3 and 3.8% in Q2. The fourth-quarter number was half the govt’s first estimate of 1.4%

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The State’s Favorite Fallacy: The Cudgel in a Suit

2026-03-13

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2026-03-13

When someone argues in favor of state control of economic processes, they are, by definition, presenting an argument based upon the ad baculum fallacy, the “appeal to force.”

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The Duke Lacrosse Case 20 Years Later: How Durham Law Enforcement Promoted a Criminal Conspiracy

2026-03-12

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2026-03-12

The Duke Lacrosse Case would never have been a legal item had not the police and prosecutors of the case lied and broken the law on numerous occasions. Here is a small sampling of the lies they told.

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Only Power Can Check Power: Why We Need Decentralization

2026-03-12

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2026-03-12

The radical classical liberals of the past were not so naive as to think that words on paper would prevent the abuses of the central state. Allowing the central state to have a monopoly on coercive power is always a mistake.

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