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Back to SearchRaising Interest Rates Does Not Counter Inflation
When inflation surges, the first thing on the government's agenda is for the Federal Reserve to try to force up interest rates. However, as Frank Sho…
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The Fear of the Signal: Why the State Urgently Wants to Bind Prediction Markets
Prediction markets, while obviously imperfect, still work well because people voluntarily put their money where their beliefs are. Naturally, the gov…
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Sound Money, Artificial Intelligence, and the Pope
Unfortunately, the Pope does not understand the role that monetary inflation plays in fueling AI's excesses. If he did, he might lead a necessary ant…
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April Money Supply Growth Hit a 49-Month High. And Prices Soared.
In spite of repeated claims from the Federal Reserve that monetary policy is at least moderately restrictive, there is no sign of any slowing in mone…
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Moloch in the Regulatory State
Regulatory systems are infamous for creating “traps” in seem to be impervious to reform. Regulators seek to “drain the swamp,” but, instead, find the…
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The Fed's Real Job: Propping Up Dollar Reserve Currency Status
Episode 553
Bob sits down with economists Alexander Salter and Joshua Hendrickson to discuss their new paper arguing that the standard Austrian critique of the F…
1 week, 5 days ago
Why Politicians Lie—and How Easy Money Keeps the Boom Alive
Episode 181
On this episode of Minor Issues, Mark Thornton opens with a review of John Mearsheimer’s Why Do Politicians Lie?, focusing on strategic deception in …
1 week, 6 days ago
The Abolitionist Movement in the Antebellum South
Before the Nat Turner Rebellion and the rise of militant abolitionism in the North, there were more anti-slavery societies in the South than in the n…
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The Declaration of Independence versus Egalitarianism
Egalitarian interpreters of the Declaration not only empower the centralized state but promote a view of “equality” that shares a common ethical erro…
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The NDAA's Attempt to Election-proof US-Israel Relations
Episode 47
On this episode of Power and Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho look at the debate over the latest National Defense Authorization Act.
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