Rothbard argued that the Fed stripped away the natural checks of free banking, paving the way for endless credit expansion and inflationary cycles.
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Category Archive: 6b) Austrian Economics
Inflation and Family Economics
Economist Jeff Degner joins Ryan McMaken to discuss how inflationary monetary policy has changed our culture, and the family with it.
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If Employment Is So Strong, Why Is McDonald’s Slashing Prices?
This is all a reminder that one should never take what Fed mouthpieces say as reliable insights into present or future economic trends.
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Charles A. Beard on the Causes and the Perils of Interventionism
Since the Progressive Era, American foreign policy has seen one military intervention after another, leading to disastrous consequences. Historian Charles A. Beard understood the dangers and futility associated with these interventionist policies.
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7x Krisenschutz OHNE auszuwandern – DRINGEND
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FBI searches home and office of ex-Trump national security adviser John Bolton
Bolton is a leading cheerleader for the modern American surveillance state and for endless intervention abroad.
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Spotlight: Summer 2025 Research Fellows in Residence
For more than 20 years now, our summer-long fellowship program has offered liberty-minded scholars a place to write, study, publish, and develop their contributions to the fields of economics, history, philosophy, and more. Learn more about this year's cohort!
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War, Taxes, and the National Science Foundation
Scientists have been transformed into grant hunters, and that gives them lots of incentives to lobby for even more federal funding. So, scientists themselves are among the most up in arms at the proposed cuts to federal research funding among universities today.
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The Myth of Fed “Independence”
The Fed by design feeds the political machine in DC by concealing the costs of government spending. The Fed serves the government, not the American people.
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Why We Need to Read Read
We owe a great debt to Gary Galles for collecting no less than 97 of Leonard Read’s articles, accompanied by a commentary of his own in which he shows their relevance to contemporary issues.
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The Young Rothbard: An Uncomfortable Neoclassical Economist
When Rothbard wrote his treatise Man, Economy, and State, he was a well-trained neoclassical economist who was completely conversant with the research methods and various strands of doctrine that composed the emerging neoclassical synthesis.
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The Sad Legacy of the Bush Political Dynasty: George H.W. Bush
As we look at the current sad state of affairs of American governance, we ask how we got to this point in the first place. The presidency of George H.W. Bush is a good place to start.
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The End of Bolivian Socialism: Freedom or Renewed Statism?
Socialism may have failed, as it always does, in Bolivia, but that unfortunately does not mean that it is turning toward the free market.
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The Erosion of Free Speech
In this age of the growth of the state, free speech increasingly becomes a casualty. However, elites are unwilling to protect free speech rights and, all too often, it is the elites that are suppressing speech in the first place.
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Fraud at the Fed, Smithsonian, and DC Council
On this episode of Power and Market, the roundtable talks about a new brewing scandal involving the Fed, revisits the conversation on nationalizing Washington, DC, and the new "golden age" of the Smithsonian.
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A Simple Solution to the Tariff Wars
No country needs the approval of others to adopt free trade. No harm and much benefit can accrue to the citizens of either country.
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On Swiss National Bank
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SNB Sight Deposits: decreased by 15 billion francs compared to the previous four weeks
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2025-07-31 – Interim results of the Swiss National Bank as at 30 June 2025
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SNB Brings Back Zero Percent Interest Rates
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Hold-up sur l’eau potable (2/2) : la supercherie de « l’hydrogène vert ». Par Vincent Held
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2025-06-25 – Quarterly Bulletin 2/2025
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