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Inequality Is Bad. The Solution Is Not Government Intervention

2026-01-14

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2026-01-14

The 2025 G20 Global Inequality Report was a timely attempt to address inequality. However, one must be critically aware that government intervention could render matters worse.

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Making Imperialism Great Again?

2026-01-14

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2026-01-14

Continued betrayal by President Trump of his no more regime change wars pledge will cause the president and the Republicans to lose support among younger voters.

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The Central Banking Establishment Is Genuinely Worried About Trump, but Not for the Reasons They Say

2026-01-13

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2026-01-13

Central bankers are not afraid Trump will “politicize” the Fed and turn it into a crony arm of the government that warps the economy to benefit those close to power. They’re afraid his blind inflationism and lack of subtlety will make it impossible to hide the fact that it already is.

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Powell Should Be A Great American Villain. DC Will Make Him a Hero

2026-01-13

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2026-01-13

The current Washington tiff between Donald Trump and Jerome Powell is being reframed as Powell heroically defending the Fed’s “independence.” In truth, the Fed has always done the administration’s dirty work and pursued inflation when it might temporarily boost the economy.

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The American Revolution and Classical Liberalism

2026-01-13

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2026-01-13

"America, above all countries, was born in an explicitly libertarian revolution, a revolution against empire; against taxation, trade monopoly, and regulation; and against militarism and executive power."

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The American Revolution and Classical Liberalism

2026-01-13

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2026-01-13

"America, above all countries, was born in an explicitly libertarian revolution, a revolution against empire; against taxation, trade monopoly, and regulation; and against militarism and executive power."

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The Republicans’ Conservatism Is about Defending the Status Quo

2026-01-13

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2026-01-13

Conservatives may protest at first, but ultimately, they bring up the progressive rear to defend, and indeed celebrate, the new status quo.

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The Question: A MAGA Mea Culpa

2026-01-13

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2026-01-13

When it comes to supporting the Trump administration, there is room for some honest self-reflection: What did I know and when did I know it?

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Cheap Credit Doesn’t Create Economic Growth – It Makes Us Poorer

2026-01-13

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2026-01-13

Net Present Value (NPV) is a popular decision-making criteria used by firms to make key, crucial choices about how to allocate resources across an economy, but this can be misleading especially when interest rates are manipulated via inflation.

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Is Trump Unleashing a War for Oil?

2026-01-12

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2026-01-12

When Hugo Chavez nationalized Venezuela’s oil industry and created a huge welfare state funded by declining oil revenues, he unleashed huge social problems that have reduced the nation to poverty. The Trump administration’s recent actions against Venezuela will make things much worse.

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Why Can’t I Have My Own Money Printer?

2026-01-12

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2026-01-12

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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2026-01-12

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’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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Trump Says He Expects To ‘Run’ Venezuela for Years

2026-01-12

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2026-01-12

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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Sovereign Credit, Affordability, and the Crisis Ratchet

2026-01-12

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2026-01-12

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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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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Fiat Currency, Monetary Corruption, and the Architecture of Extraction

2026-01-11

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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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2026-01-10

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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