Politics

Government paper fiat money does more than just cause economic havoc. It also is an exercise in profound dishonesty and theft.

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2024 was a rough year for the Washington establishment as its control over public discourse continued to collapse. While this is an excellent development, the year also previewed the adoption of a new, more fruitful establishment strategy: co-option.

President Trump has discovered a new political hero to idolize: President William McKinley, an imperialist and protectionist.

2024 was a rough year for the Washington establishment as its control over public discourse continued to collapse. While this is an excellent development, the year also previewed the adoption of a new, more fruitful establishment strategy: co-option.

Argentina President Javier Milei is proposing a new law that would “declare it an imprescriptible crime for the state and the central bank to monetize the public deficit and create inflation.” While it may be politically rejected, it does point to the real dangers of inflation.

Mark Thornton looks forward to 2025—and a little bit backwards at 2024—and projects what we might see in the coming new year.

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On New Year’s Eve 1974, President Gerald Ford snuck in an executive order legalizing private gold ownership, revoking FDR’s previous policies banning gold “hoarding.”

While US historians tend to tell the simple, good-versus-evil story of the creation and implementation of the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery, revisionist historians see a series of complex events in which the political agenda of Radical Republicans dominated the South.