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Read More »The Great Depression and Great Depression II: Similarities, Differences
Comparing Great Depression I with the current Great Depression II, the cause has been the same, and the responses have been similar.But it’s important to not take the parallels too far. The circumstances differ, so the impacts will differ.First, the similarities.Same Cause, Similar ResponsesBoth depressions, like recessions, originated with unsustainable booms. Great Depression I was preceded by the government and financial cronies creating 62 percent more money over...
Read More »Who Hijacked Our Free Will?
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Read More »The Supreme Court to Decide if New York Regulators Can Arbitrarily Target the NRA
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Read More »How State-Funding of Activist Groups Makes Britain Less Safe
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Read More »Tom DiLorenzo on Antitrust, Abe Lincoln, and the Future of the Austrian School
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Read More »Global Debt Levels Are a Ticking Time Bomb
The relentless increase in global debt is an enormous problem for the economy. Public deficits are neither reserves for the private sector nor a tool for growth. Bloated public debt is a burden on the economy, making productivity stall, raising taxes, and crowding out financing for the private sector. With each passing year, the global debt figure climbs higher, the burdens grow heavier, and the risks loom larger. The world’s financial markets ignored the...
Read More »No, There Is Not a Perfect Open Border System between the States
Jonathan Casey, in his opening remarks during a debate with Ryan McMaken on national divorce, criticized national divorce on the grounds that it throws away the open borders compact between the states. This, per his evaluation, would hamper the freedom of travel. He expressed the same sentiment during the National Divorce debate the Soho Forum held last year.“We have a perfect open borders system” between the U.S. states, claims Jonathan Casey. Most people might tend...
Read More »Help Us Give Scholarships for AERC!
This month, we will host the Austrian Economics Research Conference (AERC), one of our most important programs. We’ll have thirty-one students attending, and nineteen students will deliver papers of their own. How encouraging!Dr. Joseph Salerno, our Academic Vice President, says: “The students who present papers at AERC are of the highest quality. They are attracted by a scholarly competition offering generous monetary awards in which paper...
Read More »A Circus of Errors
When Nvidia reported high fourth quarter earnings for 2023 in February 2024, it sparked a general rally in stock markets. Stock markets in the United States, Japan, and Europe jumped to all-time highs after a few days of slight declines.It seems strange for one company’s earnings call to have such a widespread effect, but many are saying that this is all a part of a technological revolution, in which real productivity will increase dramatically due to artificial...
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