That deposit insurance wasn’t the only way to keep a banking system from collapsing was evident enough in 1933 from other countries’ experiences.
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Intellectual freedom cannot exist without political freedom; political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries. – AYN RAND
No Excuse for Fraud in Minnesota
Combine an incompatible culture with socialist leadership in our government, and fraud is the result.
Silver is re-pricing, and it ain’t over yet
As a longterm “stacker”(saver) I am not selling my silver metal or mining positions. In my estimation the upside-to-downside risk ratio is still very positive.
Capitalism Works For People, If The Government Would Let It
Peter Thiel has it wrong. We don’t have capitalism but a statist mixed economy where statism is, and has been, the cause of the economic struggles of the Millennials.
Josh Hawley and Bernie Sanders’s Credit Card Caps Hurt the Poor
Like most political quick fixes, it is an economic prescription guaranteed to harm the very individuals it claims to protect.
Insights on The Benevolent Nature of Capitalism
By the “benevolent nature of capitalism,” I mean the fact that it promotes human life and well-being and does so for everyone.
End Emergency Tariffs
Trade policy, with all its consequences, belongs within the limits Congress established, not at the discretion of one officeholder.
The Great Gold Reset: Why This Isn’t 1979 All Over Again
Throughout modern history, the story of gold has unfolded in cycles — crises, recoveries, and rediscoveries. But what’s happening now is not just another rally driven by inflation fears or a nostalgic nod to the 1970s. It’s the beginning of a structural reset — one...
Will Trump’s “State Capitalism … a Hybrid Between Socialism and Capitalism” Make America Great Again?
To be clear, Trump is not pursuing traditional socialism, where the means of production are owned by the state. Nor is he trying to copy exactly China’s state capitalism—but he is applying its methods with what the Journal calls “American characteristics.”
“A Gaslit Asset Class”
Even Bitcoin’s mysterious creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, knew of Bitcoin’s shortcomings.
Ludwig von Mises: Defender of Capitalism
Ludwig Von Mises is important because his teachings are necessary to the preservation of capitalism and thus of civilization.
The Real Meaning of Inflation
The philosopher Ayn Rand once explained that the purpose of a definition is to distinguish a concept from all other concepts by identifying its most fundamental characteristic. That’s what makes the concept unique.
How Labor Unions Can Be Anti-Labor
To anyone who understands the role of the productivity of labor in raising real wages, it should be obvious that the unions’ policy of combating the rise in the productivity of labor renders them in fact a leading enemy of the rise in real wages.
Celebrating Work
Let’s celebrate the important value of work on Labor Day—and demand that our governments stop killing jobs through their taxes, climate action plans and regulations and let people invest, trade, and work freely.
FED is Wrong: Inflation is Not Just About Rising Prices
All eyes on Jackson Hole this week as the Fed tackles inflation.
Profit Over Principle?
Are principles and profits really in conflict?
Books: Henry Hazlitt’s “Economics In One Lesson” Reviewed by The Capitalist Professor, George Reisman
There is no subject that more urgently needs to be understood in the world today than economics. Our well-being, indeed, our very lives, depend on the production of wealth.
The Legacy of The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, was based on a mistaken belief that the 2008 crisis stemmed from unregulated financial markets. It spawned hundreds of separate rulemakings and was the most extensive financial regulatory bill since the 1930s.
The Gold Standard and Monetary Freedom
The monetary central planners can never be more successful in determining a “optimal” quantity of money or the “right” interest rates to assure savings-investment coordination than all other socialist planners were when they tried to centrally plan agricultural production or investment output for an entire society.
Free-Markets and Globalization: The Long-Run Big Picture
Globalization is the process of bringing the entire world into the system of division of labor and thus into the system of social cooperation, of which division of labor is the essence. Its completion will mark the highest level of division of labor and social cooperation that it is possible for human beings to achieve, given the size of the world’s population.
The Stock Market, Profits, and Credit Expansion
How profits are distorted by forcible government interference in the form of inflation and credit expansion, in ways that directly explain both the stock-market boom of recent years and today’s stock-market bust.
A Course-Correction on Antitrust
Is the DOJ finally done playing games with the economy?
Tariff Advocates Rarely Talk About How Tariffs Punish Consumers
Politicians who support tariffs and other forms of government intervention in the economy frequently emphasize reshoring, trade deficits, cheap imports, and national security, but they rarely talk about consumers.
Progress In a Free Economy
The Industrial Revolution has allowed mankind to improve his environment.
Attack on the Space Titans: Musk, Bezos, and The Ethics of Economic Power
Most successful entrepreneurs become rich, not because of luck or having been handed extraordinary opportunities, but because they have worked productively.
President Donald Trump’s Trade Fallacies
The best policy is the full and uncompromising policy of free trade, regardless of what and how other governments interfere with and try to manipulate the exports of their own country.
High Prices of Prescription Drugs? Price Controls are Not the Answer
The federal government does countless things that increase prices for pharmaceuticals. If Trump wants to reduce drug prices, there are several steps he can take and steps that he should push Congress to take. Price controls are never the answer.
IMF SDRs and The Illusion of Inflationary Prosperity
SDRs are simply a mechanism by which to increase global currencies to meet the demands of governments to spend more than they are able to either collect in taxes or borrow from domestic and international creditors. It is a way for governments to continue to live and spend beyond their means.
The Moral Case for Globalization
Globalization is the relatively free movement of people, things, money, and ideas across natural or political borders.
How Can Profits Be Moral?
Many people have a dim view of profits; they see them as the result of immoral exploitation by business for selfish gain.
A Ten Point Analysis of The Trump-Bessent Plan to Reduce the U.S. National Debt
Objectivist Jim Brown opines on DOGE, deregulation, drill baby drill, tariffs, lower taxes, Immigration, a lower dollar exchange rate, lower interest rates, restructuring US Debt, & monetizing US assets, possibly through a sovereign wealth fund.
The Moral Case Against Tariffs – and for Free Trade
According to Rand, then, tariffs are destructive because they are a form of physical coercion by the government. They violate the citizens’ freedom to choose with whom to trade and on what terms and thus limit their ability to pursue their lives.
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