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Yes, Tariffs Reduce Imports, but They Also Reduce Exports

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Why Rothbard Thought the Fed Eliminated Market Safeguards Against Bank Inflation

3

An Actual Plan to Close the Fed and Tie the Dollar Back to Gold

4

Essays in Austrian Economics: Honoring Joe Salerno

5

Steve Hanke on Hyperinflation, Currency Boards, and the COVID Lockdown Debacle

6

Thomas Paine: The American Revolution's Unlikely Hero

7

New Academic Paper Uses Rothbard's National Output Metric

8

Why Are US Drug Prices So High?

9

Perfecting the Libertarian Argument for Dealing with the Drug Cartels

10

Unpacking the Document that Spells Out Trump's Tariff Strategy

11

Erick Brimen Explains the Free City of Próspera

12

Would Trump's Plan to Replace Income Tax with Tariffs Work?

13

Murphy and Newman Do a Postgame Analysis of ZeroHedge MMT Debate

14

Lawrence McQuillan Explains The Policy Inferno Behind the California Wildfires

15

The Flaws of GDP Accounting Explained

16

Why Government Relief Spending Only Makes the Recession Worse

17

Matt McCaffrey on Frank Fetter vs. Alfred Marshall on the Theory of Rent

18

Dr. Keith Smith: What Critics Miss About For-Profit Healthcare

19

What's More "Wicked" than the Crime of '73?

20

David Glasner on the Sraffa-Hayek Debate

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Responding to Bryan Caplan's Continued Critique of the Austrians

22

Clarifying Economists' Arguments About International Trade

23

How Can Mining Asteroids in the Future Make Us Richer Today?

24

Unpacking Mises: Fractional Reserve Banking and the Currency School

25

Philipp Bagus on the Flaws in the “Real Bills” Doctrine

26

Paul Cwik's New Introduction to Austrian Business Cycle Theory

27

Tom Luongo on the Rival Factions Among Bankers

28

Has "Neo-Liberalism" Failed in the United States?

29

How Government Propped Up Slavery

30

The Origin of Money: Menger vs. Graeber

31

Does Advanced Econ Justify Kamala Harris on Price Gouging?

32

The Classical Economists’ Theory of Value Was More Sophisticated than You Think

33

The Collapse of the Yen Carry Trade: Impending Recession?

34

How Economists Evaluate Tariffs Versus Income Taxes

35

Does the Fed Push Interest Rates Down? History Says Yes

36

Tackling More of Robert Reich’s 'Economic Myths'

37

Why Assange Was Released

38

Why the Scottish "Free Banking" Episode Doesn't Justify Fractional Reserves

39

Tackling Robert Reich's First Two "Economic Myths"

40

Garett Jones on the Economic Impact of Culture on Immigration

41

Did the MMT Camp Correctly Predict the Post-Covid Economy?

42

FDR's War Against Civil Liberties

43

Simon Guenzl vs. Dave Smith on Open Borders

44

Are American Libertarians Unduly Pessimistic?

45

Making the Case for Private Law and Defense From Scratch

46

Ryan McMaken on the History and Benefits of Secession

47

Why We Don't Need Government Funding for "Moonshots"

48

Tom DiLorenzo on Antitrust, Abe Lincoln, and the Future of the Austrian School

49

The Fed's Milkshake Brings All the Foreigners to the Yard

50

Murphy Gives Post-Game Analysis of ZeroHedge Dollar Debate

51

Responding to James Lindsay's Critique of "National Divorce"

52

We Like Ike! Joe Salerno on Rolling Back the Ideology of Inflation

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Peter St. Onge On Who's Taking Your Money

54

Are Capital Gains Income? The Connection with Mises' Calculation Problem

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Garett Jones on the Legacy of Robert Solow

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Murray Sabrin on Our Broken Medical System

57

How Statism Leads to War

58

Responding to Yaron Brook's Critique of Anarcho-Capitalism

59

The Male/Female Wage Gap and This Year's Nobel Laureate

60

Diving Deeper into the Fed's Trillion Dollar Loss

61

Inflation in Money or Prices? The Definition Matters

62

How Is the Fed Insolvent and Why Should We Care?

63

Are Workers Being Paid Their Product? Watch Out for Misleading Charts

64

Why Plea Deals Are a Miscarriage of Justice

65

The Beltway Libertarians Are Too Smart for Oliver Anthony

66

Updating Böhm-Bawerk and Fixing Finance

67

Is China's Economy Hitting a Roadbump or Quicksand?

68

Is the Fed Responsible for the Recent Surge and Fall in Price Inflation?

69

The Mirage of "Equal Pay" in Sports

70

Soft landing? Not likely

71

Everything You Need to Know About FedNow

72

How the Fed Could Bring in a Cbdc through the Back Door

73

Exposing the FBI Coverup of Biden Corruption

74

MMT's Warren Mosler Argues Fed Rate Hikes Cause Growth and Inflation

75

The Impact of Falling M2 on Prices and Jobs

76

MMT Says Government Debt Makes Private Saving Possible

77

Why ChatGPT Failed an Economics Exam

78

Do Sticky Prices Make the Market Stuck?

79

Do People Value Money Because They Need It to Pay Taxes?

80

Remembering the Contributions of Lucas and Alchian

81

Does the Inverted Yield Curve Signal a Coming Recession?

82

Krugman Says It's Paranoid to Worry About a Fed Digital Currency

83

Jeff's Farewell To The Human Action Podcast

84

With the Feds, It's the Fox Guarding the Henhouse

85

How Banking Could Work

86

The Fed's Malfeasance after SVB

87

A Permanent Wartime Economy?

88

Losing Control of Money

89

The Economics of National Divorce, Part II

90

The Economics of American Gerontocracy

91

Davos: Has Globalism Peaked?

92

Can We Fix the Economy?

93

Daniel McCarthy Dissects the Midterm Election

94

The Socio-Politics of the Midterms

95

Words as Weapons

96

The Need for Beauty in Economics

97

Bernanke's Sordid Nobel Prize

98

Toby Baxendale on the Coming Financial Repression

99

The Economics of War

100

Inflation Kills