Trade Sanctions Are Both Immoral And Ineffective
If history has taught us a lesson, it certainly is that interventionism doesn’t work…
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Fed Nominee Judy Shelton Wants Sound Money – And Lots Of It
“…unfortunately, this is weak praise, given that the very existence and function of the Fed is a destructive influence on the US and global economy…”
Continue readingThe US Obsession With Sanctions May Destroy The Dollar
When the US places financial sanctions one one country, it de facto sanctions many other countries as well…
Continue readingWhat Will It Take To Get The Public To Embrace Sound Money?
In the last decade, the combo of virulent asset price inflation and low reported consumer price inflation crippled sound money as a political force…
Continue readingHuge Debt Got Us Hooked On Petrodollars — And On Saudi Arabia
But why should the US continue to so robustly support this dictatorial regime?
Continue readingSubprime Loans Will Be Back With A Vengeance In 2020
After lying dormant for several years in the aftermath of the Great Recession, the subprime market has returned with a vengeance…
Continue readingWAR HAS BECOME ANOTHER FRIVOLOUS PARTISAN ISSUE
Trump’s actions have been largely defended from his party, criticized by his opposition, and a series of mealymouthed legal analysis from “experts” about…
Continue readingThe US’s Latest Bombing Shows The US Lost The Iraq War
The alliance between the Iraqi parliament and Iranian forces is at the point where anti-US forces can functions freely within the country…
Continue reading2019 Was A Bad Year For The “Only Cops Should Have Guns” Narrative
In 2019, police were repeatedly shown to endanger the public while pursuing their own safety. Meanwhile, the end of the year brought another case of private gun owners stopping a […]
Continue readingBernie Sanders Wants To Kill Pro Baseball
The MLB is merely responding to customer demand by phasing out minor league franchises, and if Bernie gets his way…
Continue readingThree Ways To Increase Workers’ Wages
Free marketeers have rightly written many refutations of the minimum wage, so in this article we’ll outline major ways in which wages actually rise…
Continue readingHealthcare And “Market Failure”
In the face of illness and suffering, private markets for healthcare services allegedly fail…
Continue readingHow Today’s Central Bankers Threaten Civilization
As long as people are afraid and delegate their self-responsibility to a central authority, hope is dim. It’s time to think about whether today’s system makes sense…
Continue readingChile Is In Danger Of Becoming Just Another Crisis-Ridden Latin American Country
Initially, the protesters were groups of students complaining about a raise in the Santiago subway fare, an increase of 3.75 percent or about five US cents…
Continue readingFormer Fed Chair Paul Volcker – The Man Who Vanquished Gold
Mr. Volcker certainly deserves credit for curbing the Great Inflation of the 1970s, however, he also merits a lion’s share of the blame for…
Continue readingHow Bernie Sanders And Elizabeth Warren Are Channeling Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez
Democrat politicians and their cultural and academic allies were singing the praises of Hugo Chávez and his “economic miracle” in Venezuela…
Continue readingWhere’s The Inflation? It’s In Stocks, Real Estate, And Higher Education
Just because price inflation is showing up more in some assets and services than in others doesn’t mean it’s not there…
Continue readingAlasdair Macleod: A History Of Inflationary Money From 1844 To Nixon
So that we can understand the financial and banking challenges ahead of us, this article provides an historical and technical background…
Continue readingEasy-Money Policies Don’t Solve The Problem Of Idle Resources
It is widely believed that resources that are utilized in normal times to promote economic prosperity become underutilized during recessions…
Continue readingWhy This Boom Could Keep Going Well Beyond 2019
The boom, however, is unsustainable…
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