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Gold was only included in the plans for the Bretton Woods system because of the veneer of solidity it gave....

Some economists are good at political philosophy as well. Mises and Rothbard of course come to mind, but the good...

The gold standard supposed a limit to the fiscal voracity of governments, and suspending it unleashed the perverse proclivity of...

In January 2020, Hubei and more than a dozen other provinces in mainland China implemented totalitarian lockdown measures, such as...

It’s a Silicon Valley truism that there’s little point to patenting a good business idea. If it’s truly good, it...

In 1971, Nixon used a fiscal crisis to justify severing the dollar's last connection to gold. It was the same...

Bob gives a brief history of money in the United States, explaining that the dollar was much “harder” in, say,...

With the Federal Reserve’s annual Jackson Hole symposium there’s been much talk about when the central bank might allow interest rates...

Fans of Austrian economics know hedge fund manager Mark Spitznagel as a brilliant thinker thoroughly steeped in Menger, Böhm-Bawerk, Mises,...

Stalin’s War: A New History of World War IIby Sean McMeekinBasic Books, 2021831 pp. Probably the dominant mainstream view of...