Category Archive: 6b) Austrian Economics

The Federal Judiciary’s War on Trump Is Not About Protecting Us from Government Overreach

As President Trump racks up defeat after defeat before the federal courts, the legacy media claims that federal judges are protecting us from government overreach. In reality, government overreach as we know it has been made possible by the federal judiciary.

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The Optimal Supply of Money: A Simple Argument

How much money does an economy need in circulation to function? Austrians believe that a growing economy does not need a growing supply of money, which sets Austrian economics apart from other schools of economic thought.

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Trump’s Trade Trilemma

While President Trump rails against US trade deficits, he forgets that they are due to the fact that the US dollar is the world‘s reserve currency. This, in turn, encourages deficit spending and a bloated national debt.

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DiLorenzo talks about the Fed on “Behind The Deep State”

Thomas DiLorenzo joins the New American's Alex Newman to discuss " Federal Reserve: The Ultimate Deep State Tool of Control & Destruction"

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Why a Gold Standard is Silently Coming Back to the States

Thomas DiLorenzo joins CapitalCosm to discuss the growing interest in gold at the state level

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Why Lending Money (at Interest) Is Not Usury in the Modern World

In contrast to an ancient agrarian economy, the developing economy presented many risks and costs for lenders, and the idea of what was fair and just in money lending had to change.

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The Federal Judiciary’s War on Trump Is Not About Protecting Us from Government Overreach

As President Trump racks up defeat after defeat before the federal courts, the legacy media claims that federal judges are protecting us from government overreach. In reality, government overreach as we know it has been made possible by the federal judiciary.

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Lab-Grown Meat Protectionism

The fight against lab-grown meat has picked up considerable steam over the past year, with multiple states now prohibiting its manufacture, sale, and distribution.

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Frédéric Bastiat: Who will Feed Paris?

Frederic Bastiat understood better than most how free markets and market prices actually promote social harmony. And unlike most, he understood why Paris, which had little agricultural land, had plenty of food for its inhabitants.

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The Failure to Stop Thomas Paine

Tom Paine is one of the forgotten names of the American Revolution, but it can be argued that no other man was as important in galvanizing the thoughts of American colonials toward independence.

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Elon Musk condemns the Trump/GOP pork-filled mega spending bill

" Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it."

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Trump is building an unprecedented spy machine to track Americans

Trump is partnering with CIA-funded surveillance operation Palantir to build a database on all Americans.

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India Foreign Exchange Controls Leads to Loss of Freedom

The central government intervention suspending each foreign currency exchange license in the country is an example leading to a loss of freedom for each NGO operating in the country.

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Trump Is Building a Bigger Deep State with the Help of “Libertarian” Peter Thiel

JD Vance is Palantir’s man and every call for “Vance 2028” is likely music to the ears of the deep state and its Big Tech allies.

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Seattle’s Other Monorail: Some Lessons for California

While this page has covered rail boondoggles in California and elsewhere, we also look at Seattle, which looked at building a monorail system, but then later wisely back off, saving the city‘s taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars of future taxes.

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1995: When I Testified Before the Train Wreck Known as Congress

Elon Musk has found out the hard way that one can ferret out hundreds of billions of dollars that Congress wastes, but fail in getting its members to stop wasteful spending. Jim Bovard learned that hard lesson 30 years ago.

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What Is the Optimal Growth Rate for the Money Supply?

The mainstream economic belief is that a growing economy needs a growing money supply to ensure “price stability.” Austrian economists, however, believe that there is no “optimum” money supply, which means government should not engage in monetary expansion.

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What the World Needs Now from Pope Leo XIV

The pope must defend the family from the state‘s attacks while promoting peace and asserting independence from state power.

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The History of Freedom in Christianity

“The only influence capable of resisting the feudal hierarchy was the ecclesiastical hierarchy; and they came into collision, when the process of feudalism threatened the independence of the Church...”

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The Language of ChatGPT

While artificial intelligence is often discussed in terms of automation or productivity, its potential as a creative and intellectual partner is just beginning to be recognized.

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