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Okay so I have just been assigned a paper for American History (HIS103) at my college in which I must, 1. Explain how checks and balances (Federal and State) provided for in the Constitution limit the government's ability to respond to the impending climate crisis. 2. Explain how the controversy...
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From 1917-1920, the supply of money increased 25 times. This led to hyperinflation and so one of the most significant reforms of the NEP was the advent of the gold ruble. It was a reform that apparently provided the solution to the currency crisis. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_early_Soviet_Russia...
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[quote] Oppenheimer's 'The State' is what you are looking for.[/quote] http://archive.org/details/stateitshistory00oppegoog But I guess there are several others too. Henry Morgan - Ancient society: http://archive.org/details/ancientsocietyo00morggoog Karl Marx buddy Friedrich Engels stole...
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I have been away some time but I have worked on something interesting. It is the Natural Money Bomb. Here it is: The Natural Money Bomb is weaponised superior efficiency that will wreak havoc and create chaos in the financial system. It will bring down the banks and Wall Street when it is used. The core...
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I am looking for a history of private Libraries made open-to-the-public (any/all countries). I remember reading a partial history of (if I recall) 19th century America by Rothbard on this topic, but it was only a paragraph or two long. Can you recommend literature which contains a history of private...
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Recently Tom DiLorenzo, sadly associated with the Von Mises Institute, published the following article on the internet: The Founding Father of ‘Collective Responsibility’? The subject was General William T. Sherman, Union general in the Civil War; the thesis being that recent barbaric military...
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I read the extensive list of recommendations for high schoolers and wanted to know if anyone had equal recommendations for the Middle School level reader. We home school, are currently reading the Uncle Eric series and looking to pick up Tom Woods' books. It is very tricky to find decent history...
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From Youtube and from the university, after hearing many arguments for and against socialism and after reading a lot of Orwell, I've concluded that socialism is really a management system -that is, it is not a real alternative to "free-markets". But I don't like either term because...
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I was talking with a guy at a bar the other day when the topic of WWII came up. I said we should have stayed out, he said the opposite. Then I made the point that Stalin was just as bad as Hitler. He came back with the claim that the purported number of people killed by Stalin is much much larger than...
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When trying to understand the causes of the Great Depression, the most important thing to understand, in my opinion, would be the high unemployment at the time. So, the best explanation I saw, coherent to economic theory, is that at the time, Hoover had stablished a "High Wage Policy", that...