Among the many rationalizations that the Trump administration is using to initiate massive force and violence against the Venezuelan people is that the Venezuelan government nationalized American oil interests many years ago.
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NYC Cheers Socialism while California Billionaires Run from It
Margaret Thatcher’s famous quote spells doom for new socialist schemes, “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples’ money.”
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Monetary Policy Is Monetary Piracy
Even Milton Friedman—who never supported gold as money—admitted that a monetary system based on gold would “take care of itself.” Instead, our money is created and manipulated by the politicized hand of government and is based on theft.
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Silver’s Growing Pains
$50 wasn’t the finish line. It was the starting gun for policy finger-pointing and real-world bottlenecks.
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4 ways Team Trump reminded us of Bush-Cheney in 2025
Jack Hunter: "From WMDs to bombing Iran, the president who consistently mocked the GWOT is now pushing the same old buttons."
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Trump: We Are in Venezuela Now, and We Are Going to Stay
Trump claimed Washington would pay for the occupation of Venezuela with profits from the country’s oil.
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American Indians: Separating Truth from Fiction
Depending upon the narrative, American Indians were either noble creatures who were victims of a genocide by rapacious European settlers or were bloodthirsty savages. The truth is more nuanced.
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Trump’s National Insecurity Strategy
President Trump’s latest national security initiative is unlikely to make the US secure from outside danger. For that matter, Trump’s own internal policies are making this country less secure.
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Embracing Austrian Economics: A Path Forward for Zimbabwe
Ever since independence more than 40 years ago, Zimbabwe has been wracked with socialism, inflation, and corrupt political leadership. Yet, there is a way forward for the nation, if Austrian Economics can be in its future.
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In the New Year, We Will Hear Even More Environmental Doom Because the Doomsday Industry Never Rests
A wearisome part of modern life is the incessant chants of “doomsday” from intellectual, academic, political, and media elites. That their six decades of predictions all have been wrong only leads them to double down on the volume of their claims.
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Assessing Libertarian Foreign Policy: Rothbard vs. Friedman
In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon assesses the “libertarian” foreign policy prescriptions of Murray Rothbard and David Freidman. Naturally, Rothbard’s view—built upon principles of natural law—stands above Freidman’s less-principled “pragmatism.”
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The Panic of 1893: An Austrian View
From an Austrian perspective, the Panic of 1893 provides key lessons, but this consequential panic has not received as much direct attention as it deserves.
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The Illogic of Reparations: Historical Standards, Selective Memory, and the Logic of Victory
Demands for Americans to pay reparations to descendants of chattel slavery in America have been growing. The case for reparations, however, has always been weak and illogical.
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Roger Farmer Gives a Tour of Macroeconomics
This week, Bob talks with macroeconomist Roger Farmer—who places himself “between Keynes and Hayek”—about how twentieth-century macroeconomics evolved.
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Forbes: The Fed has destroyed the dollar
" A dollar saved in 1913 retains roughly $0.03 of its original purchasing power. The M2 money supply has expanded from approximately $15 billion to over $21 trillion..."
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American Indians: Separating Truth from Fiction
Depending upon the narrative, American Indians were either noble creatures who were victims of a genocide by rapacious European settlers or were bloodthirsty savages. The truth is more nuanced.
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The Panic of 1893: An Austrian View
From an Austrian perspective, the Panic of 1893 provides key lessons, but this consequential panic has not received as much direct attention as it deserves.
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The Illogic of Reparations: Historical Standards, Selective Memory, and the Logic of Victory
Demands for Americans to pay reparations to descendants of chattel slavery in America have been growing. The case for reparations, however, has always been weak and illogical.
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SNB Sight Deposits: increased by 1.7 billion francs compared to the previous week
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2025-07-31 – Interim results of the Swiss National Bank as at 30 June 2025
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