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Wherever blame for the war might lie, for the immense majority of Americans in 1914 it was just another of...

The United States’s jobs recovery is extremely poor, especially if we consider the size of the monetary and fiscal stimulus...

Economists often concentrate on narrow technical specialties. In doing so, they sometimes fall into philosophical errors, because they uncritically take...

The chronic US trade deficit is a direct result of the dollar’s status as the world’s main reserve currency and...

Minimum-wage laws are again in the news, as Joe Biden and his political allies in Congress seek to push the...

When the American colonies declared their independence from Britain in 1776, the fundamental principle underlying the new government they created...

Why have prices of building materials soared while consumer prices are relatively stable? This is easier to understand once we...

According to a popular way of thinking, the central bank can influence the rate of economic expansion by means of...

Peter Schiff is a well-known critic of bitcoin, and while he is an excellent resource on many economic and political...

In his book Denationalisation of Money, F.A. Hayek argued that governments have never devoted their power to providing proper money...