Very difficult economic headwinds of the business cycle are coming at us.
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While many are busy offering intellectually-deficient reasons as to why Kamala Harris lost—sexism, racism, Nazism, hatred of democracy—Lipton Matthews explains some simple truths as to why Harris lost.
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Most economists are political apologists masquerading as economists. They are Rothbard’s “court historians” with degrees in economics instead of history.
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This article investigates the veracity of three claims made by current and former government officials in the context of the 2023 debt-ceiling debates.
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The Fed wants independence so it can serve the interests of the banker class. There is no higher principle here. There is only power.
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Is the price premium proposed by Irving Fisher an incoherent concept, as Rothbard argued? Hansen suggests a Mises-Rothbard premium based on the Cantillon effect to explain persistently low interest rates.
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Men like Murray Rothbard, John Hospers, and David Brudnoy are just a few of the libertarian names who aimed to bring film criticism to the readers of libertarian literature.
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Congress ought to at least teach Powell, the Fed, and its banker friends a few much-needed lessons.
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Wage differences between men and women often are automatically attributed to sex discrimination against women. However, as research has shown time and again, other factors are at work.
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Buchanan and Tullock‘s The Calculus of Consent influentially applies economic ideas to politics, focusing on methodological individual. However, there are a few pitfalls about which readers should be aware.