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The Gold Standard documentary E1

May 4, 2025

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Understanding Money Mechanics #6: Blame M2

April 27, 2025

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Tariffs Done Wrong

April 23, 2025

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Understanding Money Mechanics #5: Beginning At The End

April 20, 2025

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Understanding Money Mechanics #4: Fiat Money

April 13, 2025

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Understanding Money Mechanics #3: Chain of Causation

April 6, 2025

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Understanding Money Mechanics #2: Supply and Demand

March 30, 2025

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Understanding Money Mechanics, by Robert Murphy

March 23, 2025

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Another Round Of Inflation On Deck

March 11, 2025

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Audio 2025

March 9, 2025

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Economic Nationalism: The Nation-State

March 2, 2025

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A New Era Of Economic Nationalism

February 13, 2025

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2024 Reading List

February 2, 2025

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Gold Is Still Your Only Monetary Alternative

January 24, 2025

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Economic Nationalism: The Capital-Labor Ratio: Foreign Trade

January 19, 2025

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Economic Nationalism: The Capital-Labor Ratio

January 12, 2025

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Specialization and Trade: A Re-Introduction to Economics (2016), by Arnold Kling

December 22, 2024

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Economic Nationalism: Savings and Investment

December 1, 2024

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Economic Nationalism: The Balance of Payments: The Rest of the World

November 24, 2024

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How To End The Fed

November 15, 2024

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Economic Nationalism: The Current Account Deficit #3: Complete Nonsense

November 10, 2024

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Economic Nationalism: The Current Account Deficit #2: Savings and Investment

November 3, 2024

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Economic Nationalism: The Current Account Deficit

October 27, 2024

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Now Let’s Get Rid Of The Income Tax

October 16, 2024

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Trump’s Tax Plan Will Be Fine

October 8, 2024

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Monetary Economic Nationalism

October 6, 2024

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Good Reasons For Tariffs #2: Foreign Exchange

October 1, 2024

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Good Reasons For Tariffs

September 22, 2024

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Economic Nationalism #3: Bad Economic Nationalism

September 8, 2024

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Economic Nationalism #2: Good and Bad

July 27, 2024

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The New World Economics Guide to Spending It

July 21, 2024

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Bill Still — The Money Masters

June 30, 2024

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The Laffer Center at Hillsdale College

June 23, 2024

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The Fantasy of the “Neutral Rate of Interest”

June 9, 2024

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Time To Take Sound Money To The Federal Level

May 21, 2024

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Hidden Secrets of Money

May 19, 2024

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Japan 2023

May 12, 2024

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A Quick Look at the Bank of Japan

May 5, 2024

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Quick Ruble Update

April 21, 2024

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Zimbabwe’s Central Bank Starts Africa’s Path To A Gold Standard

April 9, 2024

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Welfare Taxes

March 24, 2024

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Traditional Urbanism Today

March 10, 2024

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The Magic Formula Now Available in Free pdf

March 3, 2024

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Audio 2024

February 4, 2024

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BRICS Making Good Progress On Their Golden Path

January 24, 2024

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2023 Reading List

January 7, 2024

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$2067 Day

December 31, 2023

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Another Quick Look at Argentina

December 17, 2023

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The Gods of the Copybook Headings

December 10, 2023

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“Reckless” Money Creation

December 3, 2023

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This Is Why We Wrote a Book About Inflation

November 26, 2023

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30 Novels For High Schoolers

November 19, 2023

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A Quick Look at Argentina

November 12, 2023

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US States Leading The Move To A Golden Dollar

November 7, 2023

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Hillsdale College Free Market Forum

October 15, 2023

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Life After Capitalism Illuminates The Way Forward For Economists

October 6, 2023

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Gold, The Real Bills Doctrine, and the Fed #4: Banks in the Great Depression

October 1, 2023

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Gold, The Real Bills Doctrine, and the Fed #3: Systemic Issues

September 24, 2023

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Gold, the Real Bills Doctrine, and the Fed #2: Let’s Review

September 17, 2023

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Gold, The Real Bills Doctrine, and the Fed: Sources of Monetary Disorder (2019), by Thomas M. Humphrey and Richard Timberlake

September 10, 2023

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Classical Economic Theory and the Modern Economy (2020) #2: Mostly Right

September 3, 2023

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Better Money: Gold, Fiat or Bitcoin? (2023), by Lawrence White

August 13, 2023

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League of Nations Economic Statistics

July 30, 2023

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Narrowing Streets

July 23, 2023

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The BRICs Go For Gold

July 16, 2023

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Classical Economic Theory and the Modern Economy (2020), by Steven Kates

July 9, 2023

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Audio 2023

July 2, 2023

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When Is Wealth Inequality A Problem?

June 9, 2023

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The Commodities Price Lag

May 28, 2023

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Gold Is Not A “Commodity Money”

May 20, 2023

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In Search of a Monetary Constitution (1962)

May 14, 2023

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“Commodity Baskets” And The FOMC

May 5, 2023

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Nobody Wants ‘Commodity Basket’ Currencies

May 4, 2023

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Why Russia, Communist China Are Flirting With Digital Gold

May 3, 2023

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“Taxing All Income The Same” Done Right

March 29, 2023

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Why Joe Biden’s Tax Plan Isn’t Going To Work

March 29, 2023

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Ruble Update

March 12, 2023

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A Brief History of Ukraine

March 5, 2023

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International Payments Systems

February 26, 2023

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The BRICs and Gold

February 19, 2023

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The Phillips Curve Silliness

February 8, 2023

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A Model of Leadership Education

February 5, 2023

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Gold Ruble 3.0

January 29, 2023

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The Grand Inquisitor

January 22, 2023

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2022 Reading List

January 15, 2023

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Why Gold Is Still The Best Money

January 8, 2023

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The Madness of Monetarism

January 1, 2023

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Book Notes: Less Than Zero, by George Selgin

December 18, 2022

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The Federal Reserve’s Demented “Dual Mandate”

December 14, 2022

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Leland Yeager’s Introduction to The Gold Standard: An Austrian Perspective (1983)

December 4, 2022

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Why Does The Fed Care About Interest Rates?

November 4, 2022

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Gold and Liberty #2: How It’s Done

October 16, 2022

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Russia’s New Gold Market

October 2, 2022

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James Turk Brings Sound Money Principles To A New Generation

September 25, 2022

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Scoring the Inflation Debate

September 17, 2022

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The Renewables Farce

September 8, 2022

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Presentation at the Newport Global Summit

August 29, 2022

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Kitco Interview

August 21, 2022

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NIMBYs Vs YIMBYs

August 14, 2022

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What Is “M2,” And Why Should We Care About It?

August 8, 2022

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Fixing Inflation Is Easy, But Nobody Talks About It

July 27, 2022

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Interview on Inflation

July 17, 2022

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Your Two Monetary Choices

July 10, 2022

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A Quick Look At Gold Stablecoins and Other Transactable Gold

June 26, 2022

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Why We Have Record Inflation And It’s Probably Not Going Away Fast

June 19, 2022

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Recent Events

June 12, 2022

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The IMF Bans the Gold Standard

June 5, 2022

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The Absolute Best Way to End Inflation

May 13, 2022

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How Russia Can Go To A Gold Ruble #6: Long-Term Solutions 

May 8, 2022

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How Russia Can Go To A Gold Ruble #5: Recent Events

May 1, 2022

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How Russia Can Go To A Gold Ruble #4: Common Modes of Failure

April 3, 2022

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How Russia Can Go To A Gold Ruble #3: Day To Day Activity

March 27, 2022

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How Russia Can Go To A Gold Ruble #2: Recent Central Bank Activity

March 20, 2022

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How Russia Can Go To A Gold Ruble

March 13, 2022

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Audio 2022

March 6, 2022

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The Gold Standard, Retrospect and Prospect #6: International Monies and Digital Gold

February 27, 2022

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The Gold Standard, Retrospect and Prospect #5: Is the Gold Standard Feasible?

February 20, 2022

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The Gold Standard, Retrospect and Prospect #4: Arguments Against the Gold Standard

February 13, 2022

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The Gold Standard, Retrospect and Prospect #3: How Good Was the Gold Standard?

February 6, 2022

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The Gold Standard, Retrospect and Prospect #2: The Price-Specie Flow Mechanism

January 30, 2022

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The Gold Standard: Retrospect and Prospect

January 23, 2022

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What’s Wrong With Turkey #2: Making It Way Too Complicated

January 16, 2022

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What’s Wrong With Turkey?

January 9, 2022

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2021 Reading List

January 2, 2022

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Square Mile City

December 24, 2021

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Why The Gold Standard Is Still The Best Option

December 20, 2021

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What’s Wrong With “Neoliberal Economics”?

November 23, 2021

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Bank Reserves and Basel III, 2021 #2: LCR and NSFR

November 14, 2021

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Bank Reserves and Basel III, 2021

October 31, 2021

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Rationalizing Tariffs

October 24, 2021

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Prescription Drugs Should Be Almost Free, And Actually, They Already Are

October 1, 2021

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We Are Going To Have A Much Smaller Federal Government

September 15, 2021

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Demographic Collapse #2: Ponzi Schemes

September 12, 2021

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Demographic Collapse

September 5, 2021

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“Money Printing” in the 1960s #3: Martin and Johnson

August 29, 2021

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“Money Printing” in the 1960s #2: Rising Interest Rates

August 22, 2021

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“Money Printing” in the 1960s

August 15, 2021

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Stephanie Kelton Argues Why We “Don’t Have To Find The Money,” We Can Just Print It

August 3, 2021

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Stagnant Wages

August 1, 2021

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Some Things About “Inflation” That We Learned Along The Way

June 24, 2021

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Focusing on Value not Quantity

June 13, 2021

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Sound Money Fans in 2021

June 6, 2021

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Targeting Interest Rates #2: Forget About It

May 30, 2021

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Targeting Interest Rates

May 23, 2021

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The Current Account Deficit

May 16, 2021

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Polaris Letter #2: I See Dead People

May 2, 2021

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Yellen Has The Right Idea But The Wrong Tax Plan

April 25, 2021

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Grand Unified Theory of Indirect Taxes

April 18, 2021

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Robert Mundell, WSJ, 1981: “Gold Would Serve Into the 21st Century.”

April 15, 2021

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Alan Greenspan, WSJ, 1981: “Can the U.S. Return to a Gold Standard?”

April 15, 2021

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Robert Mundell (1932-2021)

April 11, 2021

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The Polaris Letter

April 1, 2021

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2020 Reading List

March 21, 2021

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E. C. Harwood on the Great Depression #3: Squiggly Lines

March 14, 2021

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E. C. Harwood on the Great Depression #2: Banks and Money

March 7, 2021

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E. C. Harwood on the Great Depression

February 28, 2021

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Productivity = Job Loss

February 21, 2021

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Audio 2021

February 14, 2021

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The Bottom 30%

February 7, 2021

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A Brief History of US Immigration

January 31, 2021

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Adam Smith on the Capital/Labor Ratio

January 24, 2021

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Platform Developments

January 18, 2021

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Economic Nationalism

January 10, 2021

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Federalism, Not Breakup

December 30, 2020

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Coinage Histories, 1200-1920

December 20, 2020

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Government Economic Policy Without “Stimulus”

December 8, 2020

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Classics of Educational Philosophy

November 29, 2020

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Don’t Let The Fed Go “Full Retard”

November 17, 2020

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Bitcoin = A Can of Shit

November 1, 2020

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Hyperinflation in Germany #2: The Stock Market

October 11, 2020

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Hyperinflation in Germany, 1919-1923

September 20, 2020

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Build Your Own College #14: Hillsdale College

September 6, 2020

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Modern Monetary Theory Simplified

August 31, 2020

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How Countries Get Out Of Crisis

August 31, 2020

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The BOJ in 2020

August 30, 2020

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Build Your Own College #13: Parents and Students

August 16, 2020

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Are The Wealthy Too Wealthy?

August 7, 2020

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Sunset 2.0 #4: Take Advantage

August 2, 2020

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The Federal Reserve Works Best When It Sticks With Gold

July 29, 2020

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Build Your Own College #12: Additional Matters

July 12, 2020

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“Modern Monetary Theory” Goes Mainstream

July 10, 2020

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Sunset 2.0 #3: Transportation

July 5, 2020

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Build Your Own College #11: Buy Someone Else’s College

June 28, 2020

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Changing The Constitution

June 26, 2020

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Sunset 2.0 #2: Streets and Buildings

June 21, 2020

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The Evolution Of Tax Technology

June 16, 2020

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Audio 2020

June 14, 2020

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Cheap City

June 7, 2020

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Sunset 2.0

May 31, 2020

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Let’s Ask Money Santa For A Better Tax System

May 28, 2020

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Build Your Own College #10: More Curriculums

May 24, 2020

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Build Your Own College #9: Another Curriculum

May 17, 2020

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What Would It Look Like If We Had NGDP Targeting Today?

May 14, 2020

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Monetary Systems During Crisis

May 10, 2020

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Build Your Own College #8: A Curriculum

May 3, 2020

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Build Your Own College #7: What To Study

April 26, 2020

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It’s Time To Plan For The Post-Crisis World

April 24, 2020

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Build Your Own College #6: No Accreditation

April 19, 2020

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Build Your Own College #5: Building Community

April 12, 2020

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Build Your Own College #4: The Method of Education

April 5, 2020

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Build Your Own College #3: Up From Nothing

March 29, 2020

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What If We Had A Gold Standard System, Right Now?

March 27, 2020

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Homeschooling for Beginners

March 22, 2020

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Build Your Own College #2: Don’t Stack Bricks

March 14, 2020

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We Need Protection From “Fiscal QE”

March 9, 2020

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Build Your Own College

March 8, 2020

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Did The Gold Standard Cause The Great Depression?

February 25, 2020

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Judy Shelton Is Not What The Fed Wants, She’s What The Fed Needs

February 13, 2020

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Bimetallism vs. Monometallism

February 9, 2020

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Evaluating The TCJA After Two Years #2: More Revenue, But Not Much More

February 2, 2020

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Evaluating The TCJA After Two Years

January 26, 2020

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Get Ready For The Post-Keynesian Age

January 15, 2020

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2019 Reading List

January 12, 2020

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Life After Heroic Materialism 2019

December 29, 2019

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Gold and Liberty, by Richard Salsman

December 22, 2019

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Why Gold? by Alan Reynolds (1983)

December 15, 2019

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The World Gold Standard System Will Rise Again — But, Not Yet.

December 6, 2019

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Edmund Burke on Paper Fiat Currencies, 1790

December 1, 2019

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Some Facts About Gun Ownership In The United States #6: Accidental Deaths

November 17, 2019

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Gold Was Money From The Beginning

November 10, 2019

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Basel III and Demand for Bank Reserves #2: Return to Normalcy

October 29, 2019

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Basel III and Demand for Bank Reserves

October 21, 2019

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Let’s Talk About NGDP Targeting #6: Adam Smith’s Version of “Sound Money”

October 20, 2019

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Let’s Talk About NGDP Targeting #5: Sumner’s Take

October 13, 2019

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Let’s Talk About NGDP Targeting #4: A Pattern of Continuous Currency Decline

October 6, 2019

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Let’s Talk About NGDP Targeting #3: What’s The Value?

September 29, 2019

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Let’s Talk About NGDP Targeting #2: The Classicals and the Mercantilists

September 22, 2019

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Let’s Talk About NGDP Targeting

September 15, 2019

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New Book Proves That The U.S. Can Have Better Healthcare At One-Quarter The Price

September 10, 2019

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Some Facts About Gun Ownership In The United States #5: What Is The Point?

September 1, 2019

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Five Things Team Gold Gets Wrong

August 28, 2019

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Some Facts About Gun Ownership In The United States #4: “Assault Weapons”

August 24, 2019

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Some Facts About Gun Ownership In The United States #3: “Mass Shootings”

August 19, 2019

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Some Facts About Gun Ownership In The United States #2: Rifles and Pistols

August 10, 2019

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We Just Tested The Gold Standard — It Still Works

August 8, 2019

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Some Facts About Gun Ownership In The United States

August 4, 2019

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If You Want To Win Over Millennials, Provide Better Solutions

July 29, 2019

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Stable Value Is Our Monetary Goal, Not “Stable Prices”

July 26, 2019

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All You Need To Know About The Gold Standard

July 13, 2019

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Judy Shelton And The Battle Against “Soft Money”

July 10, 2019

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A Rosetta Stone of “Stablethings”

June 30, 2019

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Mahathir’s Asian Gold Currency Is A Return To Asian Values

June 18, 2019

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The Federal Reserve and Bank Reserves #3: Mission Accomplished

June 9, 2019

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The Federal Reserve and Bank Reserves #2: What’s Old Is New Again

June 2, 2019

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Why Judy Shelton At The Federal Reserve Would Help Keep The Dollar Stable

May 30, 2019

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“Uniformity” In Taxation Was Our Blueprint For Greatness

May 28, 2019

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The Federal Reserve and Bank Reserves

May 26, 2019

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How To Get Outrageous Growth Without “Inflation”

May 22, 2019

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The Gold Standard: An Austrian Perspective

May 20, 2019

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Defining Away the Gold Standard

May 17, 2019

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Maybe It’s Time To Cut The Federal Government In Half

May 9, 2019

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Venezuela Should Follow Germany And Japan’s Path To Wealth

May 3, 2019

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The Political Path To A New Gold Standard System

May 3, 2019

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Good Money Part II #3: The Future Unit of Value

April 28, 2019

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“Income Inequality” Needs A Conservative Solution

April 26, 2019

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Good Money Part II #2: Currency Choice

April 21, 2019

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Stephen Moore And Herman Cain Would Help The U.S. Stick To Stable Money

April 15, 2019

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Stephen Moore, Herman Cain And The Great Depression

April 15, 2019

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Economics is Easy — When You Know the Magic Formula

April 5, 2019

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The “Magic Formula” Is The Secret To Another Century Of American Prosperity

April 1, 2019

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The Magic Formula is now available

March 24, 2019

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Why Gold Is Still The Best Basis For Money

March 16, 2019

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Good Money Part II: The Standard, by Friedrich Hayek

March 10, 2019

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Good Money Part I #4: Nothing To Say About the “Business Cycle” in the Middle of the Great Depression

March 3, 2019

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The Problem With “Modern Monetary Theory” Is That It’s True

February 21, 2019

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Good Money Part I #3: The Depression Years

February 16, 2019

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Good Money Part I #2: Hayek’s Early Enthusiasms

February 10, 2019

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Let’s Not Replay The Same Old Taxation Failures

February 4, 2019

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“In Money We Trust?” — An Excellent New Documentary On Stable Money

January 25, 2019

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Audio 2019

January 19, 2019

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Good Money, Part I: The New World, by Friedrich Hayek

January 13, 2019

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The Traditional City is the Densest City

January 6, 2019

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The Financial System Should Be Less Than Half The Size of Today

December 17, 2018

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Britain’s Return to Gold In 1925

December 9, 2018

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The Mythical Problem Of “Finding The Right Gold Price”

December 1, 2018

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Net Gold Exports, 1913-1937

November 25, 2018

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The Gold Standard Didn’t Disappear In 1971, It Just Went Underground

November 16, 2018

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The Decline of Rome

November 11, 2018

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The Growth Experiment Revisited (2013), by Lawrence Lindsey

November 4, 2018

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Have We Effectively Recreated The Bretton Woods Gold Standard System?

October 20, 2018

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More FairTax Stuff

October 10, 2018

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The FairTax

September 30, 2018

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John Tamny Explores The Expanding World Of Doing What You Love

September 26, 2018

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The Decline of the Spanish Empire

September 18, 2018

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Today’s Currency Crises Are Easy To Fix

September 6, 2018

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Recent Thoughts on Taxes #3: The Principle of Uniformity

September 3, 2018

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Ireland’s Great Comeback

August 26, 2018

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Recent Thoughts on Taxes #2: Is the Payroll Tax the Best Income Tax?

August 19, 2018

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Recent Thoughts On Taxes: In Praise of “Regressive” Taxes

August 12, 2018

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How Much Should Parking Cost?

August 5, 2018

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A Trade “Imbalance” Doesn’t Imply A Currency Problem

August 3, 2018

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The High Cost of Free Parking

July 30, 2018

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This Is Why We Want 5% “Inflation”

July 20, 2018

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The “Trade Deficit” Isn’t A Problem, But It Shows A Problem

July 9, 2018

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The “Supply Side” Bookshelf

July 6, 2018

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Turkey’s Currency Failure Is Easy To Fix

June 26, 2018

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Economic Ups And Downs, 1870-1914

June 23, 2018

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“The Rise and Fall of the Gold Standard in the United States” 2: Pretty Good Stuff

June 16, 2018

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What’s Happening To The Argentine Peso?

June 13, 2018

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“The Rise and Fall of the Gold Standard in the United States,” in Money Free and Unfree (2017), by George Selgin

June 10, 2018

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Five Gold Standard Notions That Just Aren’t True

June 1, 2018

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The Bank of Japan, 1928-1933

May 26, 2018

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My Korean Reviews for Gold: the Once and Future Money (2007)

May 25, 2018

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Catching Up With The BOJ

May 19, 2018

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What Is “Base Money” Under A Gold Standard System?

May 13, 2018

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An Additional 1% Of GDP Growth Per Year Changes The Game Completely

May 10, 2018

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Catching Up With the ECB

April 29, 2018

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If You Like The Euro, You Should Love The Gold Standard

April 12, 2018

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After 34 Years, We Again Have A Bill To Relink The Dollar To Gold

April 6, 2018

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The Yellen Gold Standard

April 2, 2018

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Charles Adams Explains Why We Need Trump’s “Phase 2”

March 20, 2018

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Economic Nationalism

March 18, 2018

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Larry White and David Glasner on: “Should We Restore The Gold Standard?”

March 11, 2018

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Where’s The Magic Formula?

March 2, 2018

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David Glasner Cheers For Hawtrey and Cassel

February 25, 2018

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Audio 2018

February 19, 2018

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The Floating Pound and Dollar, 1790-1830

February 17, 2018

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“Rules-Based” Monetary Proposals Won’t Create Stable Money

February 12, 2018

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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of States (2014), by Arthur Laffer, Stephen Moore, Rex Sinquefield, and Travis Brown

January 29, 2018

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Bulgaria’s Journey To A 10% Corporate Tax Rate

January 26, 2018

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How Much Should Homes Cost (To Rent)?

January 20, 2018

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Toward Fundamental Tax Reform (2005), edited by Alan Auerbach and Kevin Hassett

January 13, 2018

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T.R. Reid Explains Why Democrats Should Get On Board the Great Tax Reform Of 2018

January 4, 2018

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Life After Heroic Materialism

December 31, 2017

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Greg Mankiw’s Ten Principles

December 24, 2017

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Start Planning the Tax Reform of 2019

December 18, 2017

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The Gold Standard at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Rising Powers, Global Money and the Age of Empire (2010), by Steven Bryan

December 14, 2017

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Applied Mainline Economics (2017), by Matthew Mitchell and Peter Boettke

December 8, 2017

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What Is The Fundamental Value of Bitcoin?

December 7, 2017

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“It’s The Economy, Stupid” — Time To Get Tax Reform Done

November 29, 2017

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Why Base Your Money On Gold? A Simple Answer For First-Timers

November 15, 2017

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Total Return of Stocks, Bonds, Gold, 1871-2015

November 12, 2017

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GOP: Lift Your Head From The Tax Scrum And See The Big Picture

November 5, 2017

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James Ledbetter Wants To Convince You That Gold Is Folly, Superstition And Madness

October 26, 2017

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One Nation Under Gold #3: God, Gold and Guns

October 22, 2017

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How Much Should Homes Cost?

October 22, 2017

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One Nation Under Gold #2: The Silliness of the Bretton Woods Years

October 14, 2017

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The GOP’s Tax Framework Looks Good. Let’s Do It.

October 5, 2017

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One Nation Under Gold (2017), by James Ledbetter

October 2, 2017

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Britain’s Path To A 19% Corporate Tax Rate

September 26, 2017

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Real World Examples Of More Revenue With A 15% Corporate Tax Rate

September 14, 2017

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Alan Reynolds Argues For the Gold Standard, 1982

September 11, 2017

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A 15% Corporate Tax Would Have A Lot Of Upside Without Much Risk

September 10, 2017

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Why Did Trump Pardon Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio?

August 30, 2017

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Getting Over the Suburban Hump to Successful Urbanism

August 28, 2017

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The Interwar Period #2: It’s Not That Complicated

August 25, 2017

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Want To Double Corporate Tax Revenue? Cut The Rate To 15%

August 25, 2017

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The Midas Paradox #5: It’s Getting Uncomfortable in the Prices, Interest Money Box

August 18, 2017

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The Midas Paradox #4: Much Ado About Nothing

August 11, 2017

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Why We Should Cut The Corporate Tax To 15% Now

August 9, 2017

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The Midas Paradox #3: It’s So Because I Say It Is

August 3, 2017

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The Midas Paradox #2: Blame Gold

July 31, 2017

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Would Free Trade Be OK If The U.S. Had A Trade Surplus?

July 27, 2017

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The Midas Paradox (2015), by Scott Sumner

July 23, 2017

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The “Gold Sterilization” of 1937 #3: The View From 2011

July 9, 2017

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Gold Or Bitcoin? Gold AND Bitcoin.

July 2, 2017

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The “Gold Sterilization” of 1937 #2: Fumbling and Bumbling

June 25, 2017

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The “Gold Sterilization” of 1937

June 18, 2017

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Don’t Fear The Robots, Fear Low Savings And Investment

June 15, 2017

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Thoughts on the Liberal Arts Program in Economics and History

June 11, 2017

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Introducing Gold: the Final Standard

June 4, 2017

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The One Thing The Left And Right Agree On: Leave Me Alone!

May 31, 2017

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The Fed’s 1932 Bond-Buying Experiment 2: Automatic Adjustments Via Gold Conversion

May 29, 2017

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The Fed’s 1932 Bond-Buying Experiment

May 21, 2017

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More on the Depression of 1921

May 14, 2017

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The Process of Urban Change

May 7, 2017

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Our Three Monetary Futures — Haven’t Changed Much Since 1944

May 3, 2017

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The Liberal Arts Program in Political Economy and History

April 30, 2017

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What Is A “Legal Tender Law”? And, Is It A Problem?

April 23, 2017

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Gold and the Gold Standard: The Story of Gold Money, Past, Present and Future, by Edwin Walter Kemmerer

April 15, 2017

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What Are Our Stable Money Alternatives?

April 7, 2017

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The Gold Standard in Contemporary Economic Principles Textbooks: A Survey

April 2, 2017

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The Value of Gold Since 1971 #2: The Dramatic Peak in 1980

March 26, 2017

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The Value of Gold Since 1971

March 19, 2017

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Is A “Strong Dollar” Good Or Bad?

March 17, 2017

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Limited Convertibility: Something New For A 21st Century Gold Standard

March 8, 2017

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Floating Currencies of the Classical Gold Standard Era, 1850-1914

March 5, 2017

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The 1910 Senate Monetary Commission

February 25, 2017

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James Grant Explains How A Crash In 1921 “Cured Itself” — With The Help Of Good Policy

February 23, 2017

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“Prices” and Value

February 19, 2017

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The Silver:Gold Ratio, 1500-2011

February 12, 2017

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Lewis Lehrman’s Very French Gold Standard System

February 8, 2017

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Free Trade And Floating Currencies Don’t Play Well Together

February 2, 2017

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Book Notes: The Triumph of Gold (1952), by Charles Rist, #2

January 29, 2017

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Japan 2017: Printing Money Without Consequences

January 22, 2017

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The Problems Of Free Trade: More Than You Bargained For

January 20, 2017

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Book Notes: The Triumph of Gold (1952), by Charles Rist

January 8, 2017

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The Problem With Free Trade: Much More Labor, Not Enough Capital

January 5, 2017

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Life After Cars 2016

December 31, 2016

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The Gold Standard Vs. The PhD Standard

December 7, 2016

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Jack Kemp’s Gold Standard Act of 1984 Shows Us How It’s Done

December 1, 2016

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The Tyranny of Prices, Interest and Money 2: The Old Historicism

November 27, 2016

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The Best Monetary Move Trump Could Make In His First 100 Days

November 24, 2016

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JFK Vs. Nixon = Gold Vs. NGDP Targeting

November 18, 2016

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Robert Mundell’s Interpretation of the Interwar Period 2: the “Mundell-Johnson hypothesis”

November 13, 2016

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Why Did Trump Win? Just Look At His Policy

November 9, 2016

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Fixed Or Floating? Maybe Our Monetary Choice Is That Simple

November 7, 2016

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Robert Mundell’s Interpretation of the Interwar Period

November 6, 2016

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Nonmonetary Perspectives on the Great Depression 3: Nonmonetary Causes

October 30, 2016

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Nonmonetary Perspectives on the Great Depression 2: Steindl, Schwartz and Eichengreen

October 23, 2016

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The ‘Secret History Of American Prosperity’ Needs To Become A Lot Less Secret

October 21, 2016

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Nonmonetary Perspectives on the Great Depression

October 16, 2016

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Team Gold Needs To Get Over The Great Depression

October 6, 2016

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The Interwar Period, 1914-1944

October 2, 2016

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Gold Is “Money” Because It Is Plentiful, Not Because It Is Scarce

September 29, 2016

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The $50,000 San Francisco Home

September 26, 2016

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The “Giant Rise In The Value Of Gold” Theory of the 1930s 3: Supply and Demand

September 25, 2016

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Why Fiat Money Manipulation Can Never Produce Prosperity

September 22, 2016

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The “Giant Rise in the Value of Gold” Theory of the 1930s 2: Never Happened Before

September 18, 2016

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The “Giant Rise in the Value of Gold” Theory of the 1930s

September 11, 2016

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What is “Sterilization”? 2: The Complexity of Central Bank Activity

September 4, 2016

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Are the Gold Guys Ready For Prime Time?

September 1, 2016

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What Is “Sterilization”?

August 28, 2016

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The Gigantic Importance of “Supply-Side Economics”

August 11, 2016

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Blame France 3: Dump A Pile of Argle-Bargle On Their Heads

August 7, 2016

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Blame France 2: Balance Sheet Peeping

July 31, 2016

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Don’t Be Fooled: “Stable Money” Means Gold

July 29, 2016

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Blame France

July 24, 2016

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The “Price-Specie Flow Mechanism” 2: Let’s Kill It For Good

July 18, 2016

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The Tyranny of Prices, Interest, and Money

July 10, 2016

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The 15% (of GDP) Solution

July 8, 2016

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The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776

July 4, 2016

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The Nonexistent “Social Costs” of a Gold Standard System

June 30, 2016

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Foreign Exchange Transactions and the “Gold Exchange Standard”

June 26, 2016

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Where Does The Money Go? Let’s Kick Around Colgate University

June 19, 2016

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A Cashless Society — Based On Gold

June 16, 2016

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Milton Friedman Blames the Federal Reserve

June 12, 2016

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Irving Fischer and “Debt Deflation”

June 5, 2016

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A Flat Tax and a Fair Tax — Together

June 2, 2016

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Book Review: Who Needs the Fed? by John Tamny

May 29, 2016

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The Devaluation of the British Pound, September 21, 1931

May 22, 2016

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Credit Expansion and Contraction In The 1920s and 1930s #2: Paying Off Debt

May 14, 2016

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China Is Laying The Foundation For The Next World Gold Standard System

May 5, 2016

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Arterial Hacks

April 24, 2016

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“Good Money Is Coined Freedom” — William McChesney Martin, 1968

April 17, 2016

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George Gilder Takes On The Big Question: What Is So Great About “Stable Money”?

April 9, 2016

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Credit Expansion and Contraction of the 1920s and 1930s

April 3, 2016

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The Simple Simplistic Simplicity Of ‘Nominal GDP Targeting’

March 24, 2016

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The “Price-Specie Flow Mechanism”

March 19, 2016

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The Myth Of ‘Price Instability’ During The Gold Standard Era

March 3, 2016

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Let’s Take a Look at Hudson Yards, New York

February 28, 2016

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The One Chart That Makes People Into Gold Standard Believers

February 25, 2016

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Problems of Coinage

February 21, 2016

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The Balance of Payments

February 14, 2016

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Why So Many Historians Agree With Ted Cruz On Gold

February 9, 2016

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Blame Benjamin Strong 2: So Obvious It’s Hard to Believe

February 7, 2016

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Blame Benjamin Strong

January 31, 2016

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The Gold Mining Boom of the 1850s

January 24, 2016

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‘Nominal GDP Targeting’ Is Just Another Red Herring To Divide Conservative Monetary Consensus

January 21, 2016

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David Hume, “On the Balance of Trade,” 1752

January 17, 2016

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Steve Forbes Shows The Way Out Of Governments’ Spiral of Self-Destruction

January 11, 2016

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The History of “Gold” Is Really the History of the Gold/Silver Complex

December 26, 2015

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Money and Credit 2: Credit

December 13, 2015

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40 Out Of 40 Economists Agree: The Monetary System That Made America Great Is Nonsense

December 10, 2015

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Let’s Meet The (Wildly Diverse) Gold Standard Family

December 3, 2015

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Let’s Resolve the Gold Standard “Deflation” Fallacy

November 21, 2015

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Greg Ip Gets It Wrong: What A Gold Standard Really Was, And Could Be

November 13, 2015

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Money and Credit #1: Money

November 8, 2015

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Intellectual Support For Gold-Based Money Is Now Leading To Political Support

November 5, 2015

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Russia’s Central Bank Might Be Getting A Clue After All

October 23, 2015

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Parks and Squares 4: Smaller Squares

October 11, 2015

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Politics Vs. Reality In Monetary Reform

October 1, 2015

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Sovereign Defaults and Restructurings

September 28, 2015

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The U.S. Embraced A Gold Standard For 182 Years, So Why Is It ‘Impossible’ Today?

September 9, 2015

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Three Things About The Gold Standard That Everyone Should Know

August 21, 2015

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Parks and Squares 3: Squares

August 16, 2015

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Parks and Squares 2: Smaller and Closer

August 2, 2015

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Can A Government Finance Itself Simply By Issuing Money?

July 31, 2015

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Parks and Squares

July 26, 2015

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Greece Is On The Brink of Disaster — Or Raging Success

July 12, 2015

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2015 Speakers

July 5, 2015

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Audio 2015

July 5, 2015

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Greece: Planning the Bank Holiday

June 25, 2015

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George Gilder Joins Team Gold And Explains Where Friedman Went Wrong

June 20, 2015

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The Bank of England, 1696-1914

June 7, 2015

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Greece: It’s Time For Your Default And Debt Restructuring

June 5, 2015

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Greece’s 1-2-3 Plan For Default And Amazing Recovery

May 28, 2015

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Some Facts About U.S. State and Local Tax History

May 3, 2015

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Population Densities in Paris

April 29, 2015

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A Few Facts About U.S. Tax History

April 19, 2015

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Book Review: ‘Popular Economics’ Lays Out The Principles Of Success While Talking Basketball

April 17, 2015

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Narrow Streets For People 4: Organizing The Street

April 12, 2015

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The Greek Government’s Revenue Would Rise — Immediately — After Tax Reform

April 3, 2015

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Greece Needs the Magic Formula to Become the Wealthiest Country in the Eurozone

March 26, 2015

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Narrow Streets for People 3: A Shopping Center Example

March 22, 2015

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Greece Could Rise To Greatness, Or Become The Next Venezuela

March 19, 2015

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Narrow Streets for People 2: Subtleties of Street Width

March 15, 2015

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Greece’s Syriza Could Launch a Libertarian Revolution

March 12, 2015

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Narrow Streets for People

March 8, 2015

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Greece’s Monetary Options

February 26, 2015

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$15,000 Gold And The Madness Of Murray Rothbard

February 13, 2015

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Let’s Look at the ECB’s Balance Sheet

February 1, 2015

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When Even the Fed Is Confused About Gold, We Still Have Some Work To Do

January 30, 2015

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“Helicopter Money and Debt Cancellation” Are the Endgame

January 22, 2015

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Life Without Cars 2014

December 28, 2014

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It’s Official: Elvira Nabiullina Wears the Tall Pointy Hat for Mismanagement of the Ruble

December 19, 2014

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What If Spain Devalued?

December 11, 2014

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How to Be a Part of the Traditional City Movement

December 6, 2014

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The Intellectual Foundation for Monetary Reform is Falling Into Place

December 4, 2014

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A “Rules-Based” Monetary System Means A Fixed-Value System

November 19, 2014

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Let’s Meet The Hard Money Extremists

November 13, 2014

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Keynesians Are In Hysterics Because Their Funny-Money Experiment Is Coming To An End

October 30, 2014

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A Brief History of “Inflation,” 1949-2013

October 26, 2014

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A Brief History of World Currencies, 1949-2014

October 19, 2014

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Russia’s Currency Crisis: This Is So 2008!

October 16, 2014

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Taxes on Capital and Capital Accumulation

October 12, 2014

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Dozens of Countries Have Already Kicked the Fiat Currency Habit

October 2, 2014

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“The Fate of Empires,” by Sir John Glubb

September 28, 2014

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Japan 2014: “Abenomics” and the Assets of Banks

September 21, 2014

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Six Great Things an Independent Scotland Could Do

September 16, 2014

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Japan’s Graying Population Needs New Solutions, Not Old Failures

September 11, 2014

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HTMAPODWTTC 14: Mobile Homes and Manufactured Housing

September 7, 2014

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Economic Abundance with a Shrinking Population: Why Not?

August 28, 2014

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Summer Slackoff: Ultralight Hiking 2014

August 24, 2014

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Gold Holdings of Central Banks and Governments 2: The Larger View, 1850-2000

August 17, 2014

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Gold Holdings of Central Banks and Governments, 1913-1941

August 10, 2014

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Don’t “Kitchen Sink” the Monetary Debate. Gold-Based Money Is Simple.

August 7, 2014

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The Reichsbank, 1924-1941

August 3, 2014

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The Bank of France, 1915-1940

July 27, 2014

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On the Path To a Better Monetary System: Bretton Woods Didn’t Fail Because of the “Balance of Payments”

July 24, 2014

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The Bank of England, 1914-1941

July 20, 2014

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Foreign Exchange Rates 1913-1941 #8: A Brief Summary

July 18, 2014

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Devaluations of the 1930s Don’t Justify Today’s Funny Money Excess

July 17, 2014

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HTMAPODWTTC 13: Getting Other People’s Cooperation

July 13, 2014

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Paul Volcker Dreams of a “New Bretton Woods.” But What Would That Look Like?

July 10, 2014

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The “Income Inequality” Debate Is Not About Income Inequality

July 3, 2014

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Foreign Exchange Rates 1913-1941 #7: Switzerland’s Independence; Turkey Avoids Devaluation

June 22, 2014

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Explaining “Freaky Friday” — How the Gold Guys Became Their Own Worst Enemies

June 19, 2014

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Book Review: Steve Forbes Leads The New Renaissance In Monetary Understanding

June 3, 2014

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Foreign Exchange Rates 1913-1941 #6: Hyperinflation in Poland; Russia’s WWI Decline

June 1, 2014

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Foreign Exchange Rates 1913-1941 #5: Devaluations by Japan and France

May 25, 2014

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GoldMoney Is the Answer To “Nonphysical Currency” Ambitions

May 22, 2014

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HTMAPODWTTC 12: Trailer Parks and Mobile Home Parks

May 18, 2014

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Book Review: Ron Paul’s End the Fed Condenses a Lifetime of Wisdom and Experience

May 15, 2014

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Environmentalism is the Key to Growth

May 8, 2014

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Foreign Exchange Rates 1913-1941 #4: Britain Leads the World Into Currency Chaos

April 27, 2014

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Foreign Exchange Rates 1913-1941 #3: The Brief Rebuilding of the World Gold Standard System

April 20, 2014

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China Doesn’t Need Much Gold To Create a Gold-Based Dollar Alternative

April 17, 2014

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Arterial Streets and Grand Boulevards

April 13, 2014

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How To Make Billions While Making People Happy and Saving the Planet

April 10, 2014

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Foreign Exchange Rates 1913-1941 #2: The Currency Upheavals of the Interwar Period

April 6, 2014

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Foreign Exchange Rates, 1913-1941: Just Looking At the Data

March 30, 2014

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The Gold Standard Guys Are Their Own Worst Enemies

March 20, 2014

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Why I Made My Latest Book Available For Free

March 13, 2014

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Bitcoin Proves Friedman’s Big Plan Was a Joke

March 6, 2014

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The Eco-Technic Civilization

March 2, 2014

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Today’s Funny Money Rot Reaches Everywhere, Including Fiscal Discipline

February 27, 2014

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Event at the Cato Institute

February 16, 2014

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Two Excellent Excerpts About Mercantilism by Murray Rothbard

February 9, 2014

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Audio 2014

February 2, 2014

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Bitcoin Ignites Ron Paul’s Parallel Currency Revolution

January 30, 2014

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The Federal Reserve in the 1930s #2: Interest Rates

January 26, 2014

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Keynes and Rothbard Agreed: Today’s Economics is Mercantilism

January 23, 2014

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The Federal Reserve in the 1930s

January 19, 2014

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The Monetary Choice We Face Today Is No Different Than In 1375 A.D.

January 16, 2014

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The Bank of England, 1913-1927

January 5, 2014

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Nicholas Copernicus’ Treatise on Money (1526)

January 2, 2014

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On the Shelf: Judy Shelton’s Fixing the Dollar Now: Why U.S. Money Lost Its Integrity and How We Can Restore It

December 19, 2013

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The New World Economics Guide to Curing Affluenza 2: the Affluenza of the Poor

December 15, 2013

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Banks Aren’t “Sitting On Their Reserves”

December 12, 2013

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Life Without Cars: 2013 Edition

December 8, 2013

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Japan 2013: The Endless Rise of Payroll Taxes

December 1, 2013

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The Triad of City Design Failure

November 24, 2013

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Audio 2013 #2: My Visit to Oswald’s Mill Audio (OMA) in Brooklyn

November 17, 2013

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First a Flat Tax; then a Gold Standard

November 7, 2013

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What’s Going On at the Fed?

November 3, 2013

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A Gold Standard System Based on Bullion Coins Is No Longer Practical

November 1, 2013

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What’s Going On At the ECB?

October 27, 2013

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What is “Hyperinflation”?

October 13, 2013

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Is a Gold Standard System Bad for the Middle Class?

October 10, 2013

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How My Gold Standard Thinking Has Changed The Last Two Years

October 4, 2013

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The Federal Reserve Is Now Badly Hooked on Quantitative Easing

September 29, 2013

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Let’s Take a Look at the People’s Bank of China

September 29, 2013

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Don’t Be Fooled, Shinzo Abe Has Japan On The Path Toward Economic Ruin

September 15, 2013

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Let’s Take a Traditional City Break 2013

September 15, 2013

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Book Review of Gold: the Monetary Polaris — “Easily the most important book of 2013 … and the best book on money that’s yet been written”

September 3, 2013

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Building A Big Foundation For The Next World Monetary System

August 29, 2013

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Summer Slack-Off: Ultralight Hiking

August 18, 2013

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Detroit Could Be Better Off After Bankruptcy

July 26, 2013

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Video Game Central Banker Knows More Than Real-Life Central Bankers, and Bitcoin Dreamers

July 11, 2013

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The Fed Is Likely Stuck With QE

June 27, 2013

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How to Sell the Traditional City

June 23, 2013

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The New World Economics Guide to Curing Affluenza

June 16, 2013

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“The Gold Standard,” in Investments and Wealth Monitor

June 10, 2013

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Book Review of Gold: the Once and Future Money, in the Investments and Wealth Monitor

June 10, 2013

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“Reinstatement of the Dollar: a Blueprint” (Arthur Laffer, 1980)

June 9, 2013

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Merging the “Austrian” and “Supply Side” Traditions in Classical Monetary Economics

June 2, 2013

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Summer Slack-Off 2013: The New World Economics Guide to Photography

June 2, 2013

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The Pre-1913 World Gold Standard — Something All Classical Thinkers Can Agree On

May 23, 2013

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Current Accounts and Gold Flows, 1850-1913

May 12, 2013

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Bitcoin Is a Junk Currency, But It Lays the Foundation For Better Money

May 9, 2013

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The Bank of England, 1904-1905

May 5, 2013

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The “Bail-In” Is Another Bankster Scam

May 3, 2013

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The Bank of England, 1844-1913 2: The Banking Department

April 28, 2013

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Bitcoin Combines Ph.D-Level Computer Science With Sub-Kindergarten-Level Monetary Understanding

April 18, 2013

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The Bank of England, 1844-1913

April 14, 2013

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The Great U.S. Economic Expansion of 1870-1913

April 11, 2013

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H.R. 1176: A Step We Need to Take

April 5, 2013

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The Bank of England, 1720-1913

March 24, 2013

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The Wrong Way to Fix Europe’s Busted Banks

March 21, 2013

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The Market Silver-Gold Ratio, 1687-2011

March 17, 2013

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End the Fed

March 14, 2013

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Let’s Take a Tokyo Fashion Break

March 10, 2013

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Get Your Popcorn Ready To Watch The Coming Keynesian Self-Destruction

March 8, 2013

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The Bank of England 1720-1844

March 3, 2013

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Japan: the Yen 1914-1941

February 24, 2013

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Obama’s Minimum Wage Increase Is Not a Bad Idea

February 21, 2013

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How Do Countries Grow Rich?

February 14, 2013

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The 10-Minute Gold Standard System

January 31, 2013

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John Stuart Mill on an Inconvertible Paper Currency

January 27, 2013

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HTMAPODWTTC 11: The Diminishing Returns of Suburbia

January 20, 2013

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The Mind-Bending Ignorance of the Bretton Woods Years

January 18, 2013

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Audio 2013

January 13, 2013

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Let’s “Clean Sheet” Our Failed Approach To Entitlements

January 10, 2013

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The World Gold Standard of 1870-1914: the Most Perfect Monetary System Ever Created

January 3, 2013

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Life Without Cars: 2012 Edition

December 27, 2012

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The Federal Reserve in the 1920s 4: The Historical Record

December 23, 2012

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Embracing Stable Money Today

December 21, 2012

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The Federal Reserve in the 1920s 3: Balance Sheet and Base Money

December 16, 2012

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The Tax Debate Is a Diversion

December 14, 2012

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What I Like About the Democratic Party

December 7, 2012

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The Magic Formula for Prosperity

December 2, 2012

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The Federal Reserve in the 1920s 2: Interest Rates

November 25, 2012

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The Federal Reserve in the 1920s

November 18, 2012

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Fiscal Cliff Compromise Will Lead To Stepped-Up Money Printing

November 16, 2012

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How To Make a Pile of Dough With the Traditional City 10: Let’s Bulldoze a Big Box Shopping Center 2: No, Seriously

November 11, 2012

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Booms and Busts of the Gold Standard Era

November 1, 2012

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The Social Deterioration of Funny Money

October 28, 2012

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Triffin’s Dilemma

October 28, 2012

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Raise Taxes and Reduce Spending? Not Really.

October 21, 2012

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No Economic Crisis Was Ever Caused By Stable Money

October 14, 2012

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Book Notes: The Age of Inflation, by Jacques Rueff

October 14, 2012

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Currency Devaluations of the 1930s 2: More Devaluations

October 7, 2012

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A Return to Stable Money Requires More Intellectual Gasoline

October 4, 2012

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What’s Wrong With the Republican Party?

September 30, 2012

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Currency Devaluations of the 1930s

September 30, 2012

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QE3: The Funny Money Team Has Crossed the Monetary Rubicon

September 24, 2012

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Corbusier Nouveau 3: Really Narrow Streets With High-Rises

September 23, 2012

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The New World Economics Guide to Curing Lower Back Pain

September 2, 2012

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Would a Gold Standard System Have Worsened the 2008 Financial Crisis?

August 30, 2012

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Courbusier Nouveau 2: More Place, Less Non-Place

August 26, 2012

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My Day in Washington With Ron Paul

August 23, 2012

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Courbusier Nouveau

August 18, 2012

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Is Soft Money Good for the Working Class?

August 16, 2012

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The Dying Gasp of Monetarism

August 12, 2012

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My Testimony in Congress

August 5, 2012

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Bernard von NotHaus’ Accomplishment

August 2, 2012

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Composition of U.S. Currency 1941-1970

July 22, 2012

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Europe: It’s Time For Your Bank Holiday

July 22, 2012

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Composition of U.S. Currency 1880-1941

July 15, 2012

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“Austerity” in Greece

July 15, 2012

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Income and Per Capita GDP in Gold Oz.

July 8, 2012

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How To Make a Pile of Dough with the Traditional City 9: Townhouses With Parking

July 1, 2012

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Who Destroyed the Middle Class?

June 24, 2012

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Book Review: Golden Rule for Prosperity

June 16, 2012

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How To Buy Gold

June 14, 2012

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The Parallel Currency Option

June 10, 2012

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“Austerity With Growth”

May 31, 2012

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A Proposal for a Gold Standard System for the United States

May 27, 2012

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Why $1600 Is My Price At Which to Return to a Gold Standard System Today

May 25, 2012

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The “Gold Exchange Standard”

May 13, 2012

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Returning to a Gold Standard System: Why and How?

May 10, 2012

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The Social Security System of the Future

May 6, 2012

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Japan 2012

May 6, 2012

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Central Bankers Don’t Know What They’re Doing: They’re Faking It

April 28, 2012

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How To Make a Pile of Dough with the Traditional City 8: Shared Parking

April 22, 2012

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Foreign Exchange Rates 1914-1941

April 15, 2012

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Keynesian “Easy Money” Is Nothing But Currency Devaluation

April 12, 2012

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The Gold Standard and “Balanced Trade”

April 4, 2012

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Did the Gold Standard Cause the Great Depression?

April 1, 2012

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How To Make a Pile of Dough With the Traditional City 7: Let’s Bulldoze a Big Box Shopping Center

April 1, 2012

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The U.S. Dollar During WWI and the Recession of 1920

March 25, 2012

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Ben Bernanke on the Gold Standard

March 22, 2012

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$100 Per Blender

March 16, 2012

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U.S. Current Accounts and Bullion Flows, 1821-1900

March 4, 2012

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Oil Continues to Rise Because the Dollar Continues to Fall

March 1, 2012

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The 1890s

February 26, 2012

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The “Crisis of Capitalism” Is a Lack of Capitalism

February 23, 2012

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The Gold Standard and the Myth of Money Growth

February 16, 2012

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The Warren-Pearson Index

February 12, 2012

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The Debt Supercycle: First Look

February 9, 2012

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What Is the Best Kind of Gold Standard System?

February 9, 2012

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Let’s Dream a Dream for Greece

February 3, 2012

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Gold Standard Technical Operating Discussions 3: Discretion Vs. Automaticity

January 29, 2012

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Gold Standard Vs. a Commodity Basket Standard

January 26, 2012

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What is “Stable Value”?

January 19, 2012

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Gold Standard Technical Operating Discussions 2: More Variations

January 15, 2012

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The Future of the Financial System 2: Leaner and Smaller

January 12, 2012

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Some Gold Standard Technical Operating Discussions

January 8, 2012

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The End of the Keynesian Era

January 3, 2012

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Economics Without Statistics

January 1, 2012

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What Should the Financial System Look Like?

December 29, 2011

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Life Without Cars: 2011 Edition

December 25, 2011

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Economic Management Without Keynesianism

December 16, 2011

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Let’s Meet the Keynesians

December 8, 2011

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The Diminishing Returns of Heroic Materialism 2: End of the Line

December 4, 2011

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What is Money?

December 1, 2011

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The End of the 1970s Gold Bull

November 27, 2011

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More on Fixing the Banks

November 20, 2011

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My Thoughts On Lewis Lehrman’s Gold Standard

November 17, 2011

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Recapitalizing Banks with a Debt/Equity Swap

November 13, 2011

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There Are Only Three Ways To Reinstate a Gold Standard

November 10, 2011

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Let’s Take a Traditional City Break 5: Stuff that Works

November 6, 2011

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The Supply and Demand for Gold

November 3, 2011

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Interview With GoldMoney

November 1, 2011

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The Diminishing Returns of Heroic Materialism

October 30, 2011

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Rick Perry’s Flat Tax Plan

October 28, 2011

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Europe’s Economic Crisis Is Not A Euro Crisis

October 24, 2011

…

Are the TBTF Banks Unnecessary?

October 23, 2011

…

Heritage Foundation Conference on a Stable Dollar

October 16, 2011

…

Flat Tax Vs. Fair Tax Vs. Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 Plan

October 13, 2011

…

Utah Monetary Conference

October 1, 2011

…

It’s Morning In Albania

September 30, 2011

…

Let’s Take a Traditional City Break 4: Many Variations, One Theme

September 25, 2011

…

A Debt/Equity Swap To Recapitalize European Banks: A Real World Example

September 23, 2011

…

U.S. Balance of Payments During the 19th Century

September 18, 2011

…

How to Run a Central Bank with a Gold Standard

September 15, 2011

…

A Brief History of the Britsh Pound

September 11, 2011

…

Gold and the Trade Deficit

September 8, 2011

…

How To Fix Europe’s Problems Without Taxpayer Money

September 1, 2011

…

How To Make A Pile of Dough With the Traditional City 6: Better Than a Thousand Words

August 21, 2011

…

Thoughts On The Recently Completed Debt-Ceiling Agreement

August 18, 2011

…

Book Notes: Imperial Spain, 1469-1716, by J. H. Elliot

August 14, 2011

…

Watch How They Steal The Money

August 7, 2011

…

One Path To A Global Gold Standard

August 5, 2011

…

How To Make a Pile of Dough with the Traditional City 5: The New New Suburbanism

July 31, 2011

…

Making Change: The Simplest Practical Gold Standard System

July 28, 2011

…

The Capital/Labor Ratio 2: How to Create Jobs

July 24, 2011

…

Is a Gold Standard Deflationary?

July 22, 2011

…

How To Make A Pile of Dough With the Traditional City 4: More SFDR/SFAR Solutions

July 17, 2011

…

Democrats Want a Tax Cut. Take It!

July 14, 2011

…

The Occult Technology of Power

July 10, 2011

…

The Trauma of Bretton Woods

July 7, 2011

…

The New World Economics Guide to Men’s Fashion

July 3, 2011

…

What Is “Stable Money”?

June 30, 2011

…

The Euro Currency Vs. The Eurozone

June 24, 2011

…

Information on Central Bank Gold Holdings

June 19, 2011

…

Tim Pawlenty’s Growth Vision

June 17, 2011

…

How To Make a Pile of Dough with the Traditional City 3: Single Family Detached in the Traditional City Style

June 12, 2011

…

How Germany Went Back To Gold

June 9, 2011

…

Gold is Stable in Value 4: More Commodities Prices, and Commodity Baskets

June 5, 2011

…

The Currency “Trilemma”

June 2, 2011

…

Gold Is Stable in Value 3: Production and Supply

May 29, 2011

…

A Currency “Linked To,” “Redeemable In,” and “Backed By” Gold

May 27, 2011

…

If The Gold Standard Is So Great, Why Aren’t We On One Now?

May 20, 2011

…

How to Make a Pile of Dough with the Traditional City 2: A Ski Resort Village

May 15, 2011

…

What is the Purpose of the Euro?

May 13, 2011

…

Updating Our Commodity Charts

May 8, 2011

…

The “100% Reserve” Myth

May 6, 2011

…

Let’s Take a Traditional City Break 3: Life With Really Narrow Streets

May 1, 2011

…

What Is the Purpose Of A Gold Standard?

April 29, 2011

…

Russia Today

April 24, 2011

…

The Economics of Big Budget Cuts

April 21, 2011

…

Gold Is Stable in Value 2: Interest Rates

April 17, 2011

…

Gold is Stable in Value

April 10, 2011

…

Different Kinds of Gold Standard Systems

April 8, 2011

…

Let’s Take a Trip to the Skinniest House in New York

April 3, 2011

…

The Importance of Value

March 31, 2011

…

The Persistence of the Bizarre

March 26, 2011

…

In Praise of Progressivity

March 25, 2011

…

Let’s Take a Trip to Julianne Moore’s House

March 20, 2011

…

How Britain and the U.S. Escaped Their Debt Load

March 17, 2011

…

Bank Reserves 2: Reserves Out the Wazoo

March 13, 2011

…

A Currency Board Linked to Gold

March 11, 2011

…

Bank Reserves

March 6, 2011

…

Changes in Base Money Demand in Germany

February 27, 2011

…

The Astonishing Genius of Men in Tights

February 26, 2011

…

The Problem With Unions

February 25, 2011

…

Demand for Base Money and Interest Rates

February 20, 2011

…

Let’s Take a Traditional City Break 2: More Really Narrow Streets Than You Can Shake a Stick At

February 13, 2011

…

Let’s Take a Traditional City Break

February 6, 2011

…

Where Did Floating Currencies Come From?

February 3, 2011

…

Italy With the Gold Standard 1861-1914

January 30, 2011

…

What Is a Gold Standard?

January 27, 2011

…

The Cheapest Thing on Earth

January 15, 2011

…

Moving Towards 21st Century Capitalism

January 12, 2011

…

Gold Mania. And Then What?

December 26, 2010

…

Life Without Cars: 2010 Edition

December 19, 2010

…

The Biggest Obstacle

December 15, 2010

…

Typical Bureaucratic Strategy

December 12, 2010

…

The End of the Keynesian Experiment

December 5, 2010

…

Super Glass-Steagall

November 28, 2010

…

Crisis Management: What’s Europe To Do?

November 21, 2010

…

The International Viewpoint

November 14, 2010

…

Japan 2010: Can’t Get Out of Their Rut

November 7, 2010

…

Gold Never Has Been (and Never Will Be) in a Bubble

October 31, 2010

…

Let’s Kick Around Pretty Much Everybody

October 24, 2010

…

The Problem of Scarcity 3: Resource Scarcity

October 18, 2010

…

Learning From Germany

October 10, 2010

…

Let’s Kick Around the New Urbanists

October 3, 2010

…

Question About Japan

September 26, 2010

…

The Service Economy 2: It’s Already Here

September 19, 2010

…

The Gold:Silver Ratio

September 12, 2010

…

Stable Money

September 5, 2010

…

Winter is Here

August 29, 2010

…

How To Make a Pile of Dough With the Traditional City

August 22, 2010

…

Book Notes: This Time Is Different, by Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff

August 15, 2010

…

Paul Ryan’s Roadmap for America’s Future

August 8, 2010

…

The Problem With Bicycles

August 1, 2010

…

The Argument for a Gold Standard (2010 edition)

July 25, 2010

…

U.S. Tax Hikes of the 1930s

June 27, 2010

…

Stimulus, Austerity, and the Spiral of Decline

June 24, 2010

…

What Happened to the Middle Class?

June 21, 2010

…

The Deadly Cycle of “Stimulus” and “Austerity”

June 21, 2010

…

The Coming Keynesian Catastrophe

June 9, 2010

…

Transitioning to the Traditional City 2: Pooh-poohing the Naysayers

June 6, 2010

…

The Flat Tax in Russia

May 30, 2010

…

Transitioning to the Traditional City

May 23, 2010

…

The Service Economy

May 16, 2010

…

The Two Santa Claus Theory

May 9, 2010

…

Thoughts on Greece

May 2, 2010

…

Greenspan, Summers, Tungsten Fakes, and the Secret Gold Standard

April 25, 2010

…

How to Live the Good Life in the Traditional City

April 18, 2010

…

How to Buy Real Gold

April 12, 2010

…

Interpreting Gold and Currencies in an Environment of Official Intervention

April 11, 2010

…

The Problem With Little Teeny Farms 2: How Many Acres Can Sustain a Family?

April 4, 2010

…

It’s Ponzimonium in the Gold Market

March 31, 2010

…

The Problem With Little Teeny Farms

March 28, 2010

…

China Vs. U.S.: Clashing Monetary Paradigms

March 23, 2010

…

A New Gold Parity

March 21, 2010

…

What’s the Chinese Word for Baloney?

March 17, 2010

…

The Traditional City: Bringing It All Together

March 14, 2010

…

Ancient Economic Wisdom Still Applies Today

March 9, 2010

…

Let’s Take a Trip to Suburban Hell

March 7, 2010

…

A Gold Standard is a Value Peg

February 28, 2010

…

Toledo, Spain or Toledo, Ohio?

February 21, 2010

…

The Problem With the Euro

February 19, 2010

…

The Problem with Greece

February 14, 2010

…

Ibn Khaldun, Taxes and the Rise and Decline of Empire

February 7, 2010

…

Let’s Take a Trip to New York 2: The Bad and the Ugly

January 31, 2010

…

Let’s Take a Trip to New York City

January 24, 2010

…

The Gold Standard in Britain 1778-1844

January 23, 2010

…

The Futility of Raising Taxes

January 17, 2010

…

The Composition of U.S. Currency

January 16, 2010

…

How to Create Jobs

January 13, 2010

…

We Can All Be Wizards

January 10, 2010

…

The “Money Supply” and the Gold Standard 2: 1880-1970

January 9, 2010

…

The GLD Standard

January 3, 2010

…

The “Money Supply” with a Gold Standard

January 2, 2010

…

What A Real Train System Looks Like

December 27, 2009

…

Updating Our Commodity Charts

December 20, 2009

…

Life Without Cars: 2009 Edition

December 13, 2009

…

In the Long Run, We Are All Dead

December 6, 2009

…

Capitalism: the State of the Art

November 29, 2009

…

What Comes After Heroic Materialism?

November 22, 2009

…

Let’s Kick Around Carfree.com

November 15, 2009

…

The Future Stinks

November 8, 2009

…

A Brief History of the Dollar

November 6, 2009

…

Japan’s New Government

November 1, 2009

…

What If We Abolished the Federal Reserve?

October 27, 2009

…

Let’s Take Another Trip to Venice

October 18, 2009

…

Place and Non-Place

October 11, 2009

…

New Highs for Gold

October 9, 2009

…

Let’s Take a Trip to Barcelona

September 28, 2009

…

Does Hong Kong Have the World’s Best Health Care System?

September 25, 2009

…

What $1000+ Gold Means To You

September 23, 2009

…

The Problem of Scarcity 2: It’s All In Your Head

September 20, 2009

…

The Problem of Scarcity

September 13, 2009

…

The Treasury’s Funding Problem

September 7, 2009

…

Summer Slack-Off 3: How to Have Fun

August 30, 2009

…

BOGO Sunday

August 23, 2009

…

Healthcare Reform Conservatives Could Love

August 16, 2009

…

Summer Slack-Off 2: Raw Food Diet

August 16, 2009

…

Recommended book: For Good and Evil — the Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization.

August 16, 2009

…

Let’s Visit an American Village 3: How the Suburbs Came to Be

July 26, 2009

…

Let’s Take a Trip to an American Village 2: Downtown

July 19, 2009

…

Let’s Take a Trip to an American Village

July 12, 2009

…

How To Establish an International Currency

July 6, 2009

…

Inflation Vs. Hyperinflation

June 28, 2009

…

Where’s the Gold?

June 26, 2009

…

Summer Slack-Off 1: Headphone Audio

June 21, 2009

…

Bashing “Supply Side Economics” 2: Maybe We Don’t Want Growth?

June 15, 2009

…

Bashing “Supply Side Economics”

June 7, 2009

…

Getting More Depressing All the Time

May 31, 2009

…

The Japan Baloney

May 26, 2009

…

Bernanke’s “Making Sure IT Doesn’t Happen Here” Speech

May 24, 2009

…

Negative Interest Rates

May 17, 2009

…

Updating our Commodity (and other) Charts

May 10, 2009

…

A Bazillion Windmills

May 3, 2009

…

Two Monetary Paradigms

April 26, 2009

…

Let’s Kick Around Those “Sustainability” Types

April 19, 2009

…

A Different Kind of Gold Standard

April 5, 2009

…

A New World Monetary System

March 29, 2009

…

Time for Action

March 22, 2009

…

Let’s Visit Some More Villages

March 15, 2009

…

Capitalism Vs. Socialism

March 8, 2009

…

Public Works Done Right

February 22, 2009

…

Let’s Take a Trip to the French Village

February 15, 2009

…

“Nationalizing” the Banks

February 8, 2009

…

Let’s Take a Trip to the English Village

February 1, 2009

…

“Austerity” and “Stimulus” 2.0

January 18, 2009

…

Currency Management for Little Countries

January 4, 2009

…

Currencies are Causes, not Effects

December 28, 2008

…

Life Without Cars

December 21, 2008

…

Causes of the Bust

December 14, 2008

…

Preventing Bubbles

December 9, 2008

…

Quantitative Easing

November 30, 2008

…

Russia’s Currency Crisis

November 24, 2008

…

Redeemability and Reserves

November 23, 2008

…

How To Stabilize the Ruble

November 16, 2008

…

“Austerity”

November 10, 2008

…

“Stimulus”

November 3, 2008

…

Making Currencies that Last

October 27, 2008

…

Too Much Borrowing Vs. Not Enough Borrowing

October 26, 2008

…

Keeping Warm for (Almost) Free

October 19, 2008

…

Effective Bank Recapitalization 2: Three Examples

October 12, 2008

…

Effective Bank Recapitalization

October 5, 2008

…

Every Crisis is Just Like All the Others

September 28, 2008

…

The “Lowering Interest Rates” Boondoggle

September 21, 2008

…

Depression Economics

September 14, 2008

…

The Battle for Investment Survival

September 3, 2008

…

How the Fed Works

September 1, 2008

…

Five Audio Systems

August 23, 2008

…

Visions of Future Cities

August 10, 2008

…

Tax Cuts are the Solution to Everything

August 5, 2008

…

“Why Not the Gold Standard?”

July 28, 2008

…

The Traditional City Vs. The “Radiant City”

July 20, 2008

…

What to Do About the Poor People

July 14, 2008

…

Obama’s Tax Plan

July 7, 2008

…

The Volcker Myth

July 2, 2008

…

Privatize the Profits. Socialize the Losses.

July 1, 2008

…

The Inflationary Adjustment Process

June 22, 2008

…

More Commodities Charts

June 17, 2008

…

Updating Our Commodity Charts

June 6, 2008

…

World Without Paper Money

June 2, 2008

…

Japan: Silly Self Destructive Behavior

May 24, 2008

…

Japan: Tax Hikes are No Fun

May 18, 2008

…

Japan: Now What Are We Going To Do?

May 11, 2008

…

The Gulf’s Currency Solution

May 9, 2008

…

The Key to Managing Currencies

May 6, 2008

…

What Is The U.S. Economy?

May 5, 2008

…

Japan: WTF is Going On?!?

April 20, 2008

…

This Is So Not Like Japan

April 13, 2008

…

Liquidators vs. Interventionists

April 6, 2008

…

The Capital/Labor Ratio

March 30, 2008

…

How Banks Work 7: The Lender of Last Resort

March 23, 2008

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How Banks Work 6: Liquidity Crises and Bank Runs

March 16, 2008

…

How Banks Work 5: Selling Loans

March 9, 2008

…

Worse Than 1973

March 6, 2008

…

Investing in Gold and Silver

March 2, 2008

…

How Banks Work 4: Banks and the Economy

February 24, 2008

…

Nowhere to Hide

February 19, 2008

…

How Banks Work 3: More Elephant Poop

February 17, 2008

…

How Banks Work 2: Shitting Like an Elephant

February 10, 2008

…

How Banks Work

February 3, 2008

…

Crisis Management

January 27, 2008

…

How To Buy Gold on the Comex

January 25, 2008

…

How To Buy Gold on the Comex

January 25, 2008

…

Valuing Gold

January 13, 2008

…

Investing in 2008

January 6, 2008

…

“Contrarian” Investments for 2008

December 30, 2007

…

Liquidity vs. Solvency

December 16, 2007

…

Updating Our Commodities Charts

December 9, 2007

…

Let’s Take a Trip to Tokyo

December 2, 2007

…

“Printing Money”

November 24, 2007

…

Bretton Woods II: The Folly of Large Gold Reserves

November 19, 2007

…

The London Gold Pool I and II (and a David Frum-bashing contest!)

November 11, 2007

…

What if China began a gold standard tomorrow?

November 4, 2007

…

Can We Still Avoid Inflation?

October 28, 2007

…

The “Money Multiplier”

October 21, 2007

…

Say’s Law

October 14, 2007

…

Let’s Take a Trip to Venice

October 7, 2007

…

Taxes and Money

September 30, 2007

…

The Greenspan Gold Standard

September 23, 2007

…

Different Kinds of “Money”

September 2, 2007

…

How to Operate a Gold Standard

August 26, 2007

…

Gold Standard Fallacies

August 19, 2007

…

The Credit Boom-Bust Cycle

August 12, 2007

…

What Happened to the Greenspan Put?

August 5, 2007

…

Whip Inflation Now

July 22, 2007

…

Give Yourself the Gift of Music

July 15, 2007

…

No Growth Economics

July 9, 2007

…

East Europe’s Flat Tax Revolution

June 30, 2007

…

The Gold Standard in a Nutshell

June 24, 2007

…

Recipe for Florence

June 17, 2007

…

450 Miles Per Gallon

May 26, 2007

…

Ron Paul or Mike Gravel for President

May 21, 2007

…

Weights and Measures

April 21, 2007

…

The Value of Today’s Dollars in 1854 Dollars

April 15, 2007

…

How Far Down for Housing Values?

April 9, 2007

…

Commodities in the 1970s

April 1, 2007

…

The Next Gold Standard

March 25, 2007

…

The Inflation Has Already Begun

March 11, 2007

…

Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth

March 11, 2007

…

The Less-Oil Economy

March 4, 2007

…

The Real Prices of Commodities 3: Bits n Pieces

February 24, 2007

…

The Real Values of Commodities 2: Grains

February 17, 2007

…

The Real Prices of Commodities

February 10, 2007

…

Peak Oil Is Fun

February 3, 2007

…

Inflationary Recessions 2: You Don’t Go Bust In An Inflation

January 27, 2007

…

Not a Bear Among Them

January 20, 2007

…

Inflationary Recessions, Deflationary Recessions (and ‘Flationary Recessions)

January 10, 2007

…

The End of the 1972 Bull Market

December 25, 2006

…

John Stuart Mill on Public Works Spending

December 17, 2006

…

Why the Magic Formula Works

December 10, 2006

…

The Future of Farming

December 3, 2006

…

Understanding Gold’s Movements

November 5, 2006

…

The Car of the Future (is here today!)

October 22, 2006

…

Macro Investing 3: the Principle of Compound Interest

October 8, 2006

…

Macro Investing 2: Valuation

October 2, 2006

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