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Fifty years after Nixon closed the gold window, prices are heading toward 1970s-era increases. Yet the Fed cannot increase interest...

British Columbia's supreme court recently upheld the province’s restrictions on privately funded healthcare, despite the pain and suffering inflicted on...

Question: Suppose the Fed doubles the supply of ”high-powered money” (monetary base) from around 15 percent to 30 percent of...

John Tamny chronicles the profound ignorance and malfeasance of policy makers at all levels during 2020. Does the varied response...

Was Covid merely the excuse to justify new police powers under the guise of public heath—powers politicians will use to...

After more than a year of unprecedented state intervention in our private lives, have Americans accepted a grim "new normal"?...

“Brewed according to the German Purity Law,” a Hobräu München hefeweizen bottle proudly declares. This brewery is not alone. Other...

Nixon’s closing the gold window should be seen as the end of the last remnant of the gold standard, not...

This year marks the fiftieth anniversary since Nixon suspended the convertibility of the US dollar into gold. This began the era...

In every great war monetary calculation was disrupted by inflation. … The economic behavior of the belligerents was thereby led...