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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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I am wondering if anyone knows anything about the duties on imports and tonnage which the Union imposed in the summer of 1789 as a result of the first session of Congress, or if anyone has any general knowledge about import/tonnage duties. Specifically, I would like answers to the following questions...
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I'm not familiar with this topic at all. I have some familiarity with Soviet economics and such, but predating that I'm not very knowledgeable. I'm curious because I'm debating someone about the merits and benefits of a free market economy as opposed to a centrally planned economy who...
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I am currently doing a dissertation on American foreign policy and at the moment I am reading William Appleman Williams The Tragedy of American Diplomacy . In it, he says that US expansionist policies gained support from industrialists and farmers in an effort to "open" and/or "find"...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/weekinreview/21uchitelle.html Read the article, and let me know what you think.
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Ok people I have read Murray Rothbard's "America's Great Depression"; and he put a lot of the blame for the crash of 1929 on Coolidge. In fact the newst post on this site "Economic Depressions:Their Cause and Their Cure" has Rothbard even saying that Coolidge was not a believer...