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The 1929 Financial Thriller and the “We Can’t Help Ourselves” Theory of Financial Mania

2026-01-28

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2026-01-28

The 1929 October stock market crash is one of the most important financial events in US history. Andrew Ross Sorkin’s book gives a close look at the events that shook the nation.

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Trump’s Embrace of Economic Leftism Will Destroy the Legacy He’s Desperately Trying to Build

2026-01-28

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2026-01-28

Trump is clearly focused on building a legacy in his second term with his domestic vanity projects and dramatic foreign interventions. But his actual legacy is shaping up to be defined by his lack of progress on affordability.

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The Essence of Action and Liberty

2026-01-28

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2026-01-28

Life, for man, begins not with breath, but with action. To act, he must own himself. He must be free to choose.

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Trump’s Embrace of Economic Leftism Will Destroy the Legacy He’s Desperately Trying to Build

2026-01-27

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2026-01-27

Trump is clearly focused on building a legacy in his second term with his domestic vanity projects and dramatic foreign interventions. But his actual legacy is shaping up to be defined by his lack of progress on affordability.

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The Mirage of Public Finance: Italy’s Budget Bill

2026-01-27

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2026-01-27

When it comes to fiscal reform, the Right—in Italy and abroad—should remember Jean-Baptiste Say: “The best scheme of finance is, to spend as little as possible; and the best tax is always the lightest.”

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Why the Federalists Hated the Bill of Rights

2026-01-27

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2026-01-27

The Bill of Rights transformed the Constitution from one of supreme and total national power to a partially mixed polity where the liberal anti-nationalists at least had a fighting chance.

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Trump’s Latest Regime Change Target

2026-01-27

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2026-01-27

What does the Federal Reserve have in common with Venezuela and Greenland? It has been targeted by President Trump for regime change.

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We Can Have Unity or We Can Have Freedom. We Can’t Have Both.

2026-01-27

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2026-01-27

While unity sounds like a nice thing to have, when it comes to politics and nation-states, experience repeatedly shows that unity is the tool of those who build state power at the expense of freedom.

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Daoism and the Limits of Rule: Ethical Anarchism Without Natural Rights

2026-01-27

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2026-01-27

While libertarians like to think of political libertarianism as a peculiarly western concept, it turns out that classical Daoist thinkers wrote about state power in a way that would seem to channel none other than Murray Rothbard.

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The Case for Economic Truth: Why Tariff Cuts Trump Protectionism

2026-01-27

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2026-01-27

Ultimately, eliminating tariffs is a submission to a fundamental truth: the wealth of a nation does not come from stifling global trade.

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Japan Bond Crash Unleashes a $7 Trillion Risk for Global Markets

2026-01-26

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2026-01-26

Inflation, long dormant in Japan, has taken hold. As a result, investors have been frantically sending bond yields up to levels once unthinkable.

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When Hate Speech is Defined as a Crime

2026-01-26

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2026-01-26

Many progressives believe that certain kind of speech, or what they call “hate speech,” should be subject to criminal penalties, including imprisonment. Murray Rothbard understood that such laws would destroy our very freedoms.

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Republicans and MAGA: Carrying a Gun Is a Bad Thing Now

2026-01-26

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2026-01-26

In 2026, conservatives cheer the masking of police in a way that would have been viewed as shockingly sinister, illegal, and downright creepy by Americans of earlier generations.

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Trump Orders Major Military Buildup Over Iran

2026-01-26

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2026-01-26

The military buildup includes the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier strike group. On Friday, the US Treasury slapped sanctions on nine ships suspected of carrying sanctioned Iranian oil.

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On the Failure of Constitutionalism Through the Ages: Norms, Emergencies, and the Administrative State

2026-01-26

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2026-01-26

Constitutionalism gives us the expectation of governance according to rules that everyone from those that are governed to the ones that govern are expected to obey. But what happens if those that govern exempt themselves from those rules?

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Latest Federal Killing in Minnesota Echoes Ruby Ridge

2026-01-26

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2026-01-26

The latest killing of a protester in Minneapolis by federal agents is reminiscent of the shooting of Vickie Weaver by a government sniper in 1992. In both cases, the government has refused to acknowledge wrongdoing and has engaged in legal coverups.

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It Could Never Happen Here

2026-01-26

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Making Sense of Historical Data

2026-01-26

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2026-01-26

Historical data is not enough for economists to make sense of it. Instead, that data must be viewed through a theoretical framework that explains what has happened.

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Why the Fracturing of MAGA Doesn’t Matter

2026-01-26

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2026-01-26

He was always a New York Democrat billionaire, and he was never going to be a champion of working people or free markets. Trump is a Likudnik, not America First, and always was the former and never the latter.

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Latest Federal Killing in Minnesota Echoes Ruby Ridge

2026-01-26

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2026-01-26

The latest killing of a protester in Minneapolis by federal agents is reminiscent of the shooting of Vickie Weaver by a government sniper in 1992. In both cases, the government has refused to acknowledge wrongdoing and has engaged in legal coverups.

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