1+ week, 2+ day ago   (132+ words) From the September 3 edition of the Wall Street Journal. Young Americans are not living the failure of capitalism. They are living the cumulative failure of statism. In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon examines the defense of Virginia’s secession…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (163+ words) David Rockefeller founded the Trilateral Commission in 1973 as a body more elite than the CFR, and it placed its people in office. Rothbard runs through the Carter appointments post by post, from Brzezinski and Vance to Volcker at the Fed,…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (217+ words) The JP calls for the US taxpayer to pay a "debt forgiveness for military service" program to enlarge the US's standing army. The whole point being to further subsidize the state of Israel. The Jerusalem Post Calls for More Americans…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (181+ words) Established at the end of 1913, the Federal Reserve made Allied loans and wartime deficits possible by centralizing reserves and backstopping the banks. Rothbard traces the five-year campaign by Morgan, Rockefeller, and Kuhn, Loeb interests, then follows Benjamin Strong’s Morgan ties…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (166+ words) Blocked in China by Russia and a Belgian syndicate, an American banking consortium pressed Washington toward a harder Asian line. Rothbard follows the American China Development Company through the Boxer Rebellion to Theodore Roosevelt egging Japan on to attack Russia…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (177+ words) Rothbard’s opening thesis: commercial bankers, engaged in fractional reserve credit, always teeter toward bankruptcy and reach for bailout, while investment bankers underwrite government bonds and profit from deficits. He traces the first great American investment bank—Jay Cooke’s—to a…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (345+ words) The argument for AI solving inflation runs through productivity: better technology lowers costs, so prices fall. Dr. Mark Thornton of the Mises Institute takes that apart. Technology genuinely made computers and screens and phones cheaper, and it did nothing at…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (95+ words) The U.S. military has just announced that it has carried out two more murders on the high seas near South America. This now brings the military’s high-seas...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (179+ words) The JP calls for the US taxpayer to pay a “debt forgiveness for military service” program to enlarge the US’s standing army. The whole point being to further subsidize the state of Israel. Public employee unions have used their built-in…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (279+ words) Rothbard sets the stage with a portrait of a young agrarian republic transformed by the War of 1812. Foreign trade collapsed and domestic manufacturing surged; loosely regulated state banks multiplied, issuing notes with little specie behind them; credit poured into western…...