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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.”
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Shaken Baby Syndrome: A Hypothesis That Keeps Sending Innocent People to Prison
Jeffrey A. Singer ProPublica has released a detailed report about the controversy surrounding the shaken baby syndrome hypothesis. Reporter Pamela Colloff chronicles the travails of Nick Flannery, an IT specialist…
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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…
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End the year right and get a head start on a great New Year’s Resolution by helping the Mises Institute!
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The Federal Reserve and so-called government stabilizers exist ostensibly to balance a market economy that supposedly is fundamentally unstable. But what if government intervention itself causes the instability?
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Most editorialists and pundits have labeled Jimmy Carter’s presidency a failure, but his activities after he left office as a rousing success. The truth is that his successful deregulation efforts…
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The Trump team plans to tinker with government spending, but this does nothing to address the real problem which is the current inflationist monetary experiment.
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Three regulators fighting over fewer than a third of the banks that were operating 40 years ago. Thousands of regulators overseeing bankers pretending bad loans are good.
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Dr. Matt McCaffrey joins Bob to discuss his newly published journal article exploring the dispute Fetter had with the august British economist Alfred Marshall over the theory of rent.