Category: Politics

Are Austrian economists clinging to an old-fashioned view of banking? In short, no, and here is why.

One of the outcomes of the American Civil War was the movement toward centralization of political power in Washington. The Reconstruction regime imposed upon the former Confederate states following the…

As monetary authorities continue to inflate the money supply, they inflict more and more damage upon the currency. Unfortunately, as the economy falters under the inflationary regime, the “solution” always…

Home prices continue to rise as the government tries to further intervene into the housing markets, all in the name of the “American Dream.” However, remember that these massive increases…

What if we could have eavesdropped on a conversation between Fed Chairman Jerome Powell and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen? It might have gone as follows….

Kamala Harris claims that she simply wants food prices to be lower. However, her de facto price fixing scheme would create food shortages and raise the real price of food.…

Murphy lays out the various camps in the debate over Fractional Reserve Banking.

Murphy lays out the various camps in the debate over Fractional Reserve Banking.

David Gordon takes another look at Thomas Nagel’s Equality and Partiality. While he finds some of Nagel’s arguments appealing, they still are inferior to Murray Rothbard’s systematic interpretation of natural…

There are numerous critics of the Austrian school of economics, but when their disparagements are closely examined, the so-called experts themselves are wrong. Austrians can do a better job of…