Jon Stewart Asks Great Questions of Federal Reserve Chief
In a recent episode of “The Problem With Jon Stewart,” the former Daily Show host asks former president of the Kansas City Fed Thomas Hoenig why the Fed couldn’t have …
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The Nationalities Question
[This article was published in in The Irrepressible Rothbard, available in the Mises Store.] Upon the collapse of centralizing totalitarian Communism in Eastern Europe and even the Soviet Union, long …
Jordan Peterson on Austrian Economics: Free Markets Are “Profoundly Equitable”
Jordan Peterson is a Canadian psychologist, lecturer, and intellectual with a comparative advantage in enraging the left-establishment elites. That’s a valuable trait on its own, but Peterson’s more profound contributions …
Is There a Case for the Pre-1914 Gold Standard? Yes, if You Believe Inflation is a Bad Thing
The Russian central bank recently announced that it will stop buying gold at a fixed rate and will instead buy them at the negotiated rate from banks. Following the numerous …
Hoppe: “My Dream Is of a Europe Which Consists of 1,000 Liechtensteins.”
[Editor’s note: Earlier this month Dr. Hans-Hermann Hoppe appeared on SERVUS TV for a discussion “On State, War, Europe, Decentralization and Neutrality.” An English translation of the transcript was prepared by Leonhard …
The Ancient Chinese Libertarian Tradition
The first libertarian intellectual was Lao-tzu, the founder of Taoism. Little is known about his life, but apparently he was a personal acquaintance of Confucius in the late sixth century …
Do “Inflationary Expectations” Cause Inflation? Contra Krugman, the Answer Is No
Paul Krugman recently wrote that the reason we see high inflation is that people mistakenly believe inflation is in our future and act accordingly. This reasoning is false. Original Article: …
New Covid Study Shows Lockdown-Heavy States Had Some of the Worst Health Results
As hard as it is to believe, the Chinese regime is still employing a “zero covid” strategy and claims it can eradicate covid entirely through lockdowns and vaccinations. China’s draconian, …
Fetter the Radical
[This is Murray Rothbard’s introduction to Frank A. Fetter’s Capital, Interest, and Rent.] Frank Albert Fetter (1863–1949) was the leader in the United States of the early Austrian school of economics. …
Medical Freedom Benefits Only the Rich? A Surgery Center in Oklahoma Says Otherwise
How does one make an economic decision when the price of a good is not evident? To any adherent of the Austrian school, this of course is impossible. There is …