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I'm relatively new to researching economics, so I guess you could say I'm a beginner in my understanding of economics. I've been a libertarian for a couple of years, but I'm only in high school, so my knowledge is somewhat limited. So far I've read The Revolution by Ron Paul, Economics...
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where can i find the best online archive source for early american pamphlets,newspapers and publications?
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Blast from the past, Popular Science Magazine takes on the issue of hoarding with a little editorial story featuring two men debating the social good and intelligence of hoarders. As the story starts out, you think there will be a fair debate as one man clearly thinks hoarding is "unpatriotic"...
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There is a fellow I often have political debates with at work, who is a progressive democrat fervently against the federal reserve because it's a "private bank" running the country. He believes in greenbacks, but is totally against the fed despite my efforts of explaining how greenbacks...
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I was reading Doug French's book about the housing collapse and came across the Shiller graph showing historical home values. I'm a self-taught student of economics and don't have the background that others might. I wanted to pick the brains of the Mises community on the housing spike/collapse...
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[quote] Was the famous internet tech bubble caused directly by government/central banking?[/quote] Yes. The question is which way it caused it. The Rothbardians think that it, and all other economic crises at all times with no effort to check the actual facts, was caused by the Federal Reserve inflating...
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What??? I have only been studying this for a short while, but even I know this a gross misrepresentation - any comments? Hayek was associated with the Austrian school, ascendant in the 19th and early 20th centuries, which argued that the private sector should be left free to carry out the task of any...
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Ron Paul on MSNBC http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBdXMHlw3-U&feature=player_embedded Perhaps this reporter lady of MSNBC should learn more about Austrian economics, she is stubborn as a mule.
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From yesterday's WSJ. ---------------------------------------------------------------- By ALAN S. BLINDER Ignorance is not bliss, especially when your economy is faltering and sound policies are badly needed. For months, we have witnessed the spectacle of people arguing that Keynes was wrong. Somehow...
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The Washington Post - November 12 th , 2010 By printing money, the Fed will create runaway inflation. The Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman issued a famous dictum nearly 50 years ago: "Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon." His belief has become widespread over...