If you read on the topic of money’s history from any mainstream textbook, you will already know the drill. In the past… [Read more]
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People were stunned when the Trump administration unilaterally bailed on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade trea… [Read more]
by Jeffrey Tucker
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As a kid, people were always trying to get me to listen to the symphonies of Ludwig van Beethoven. The adults decided th… [Read more]
by Jeffrey Tucker
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The classic criticism against the gold standard is that it was too costly. Why are these guys wasting resources to suit … [Read more]
by Jeffrey Tucker
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I can’t remember a nuttier weekend in the history of Bitcoin than this one. That’s because the action gets more excitin… [Read more]
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There he was dropping off packages in the mail room. I picked up mine and walked away. Then I did a double take. The pat… [Read more]
by Jeffrey Tucker
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Almost every small and medium-sized town has what are called farmers markets. We love them. Some are seasonal. Some ope… [Read more]
by Jeffrey Tucker
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At long last, with the end of “net neutrality,” competition could soon come to the industry that delivers Internet serv… [Read more]
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This morning, I was sitting at a stop light and heard a terrifying screeching. A black sedan headed my direction from t… [Read more]
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One time, when I was a small child, I saw Hank Aaron go to bat. He had already hit his 500th home run. I was looking for… [Read more]
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One of the most exciting books of 2017 is James Scott’s Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States (Yale 2… [Read more]
by Jeffrey Tucker
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In a strange blast from the past, the Trump administration has rejected an uncontroversial vertical merger proposed by A… [Read more]
by Jeffrey Tucker
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It’s beyond me why the Disney short showing before the new movie Coco (which itself is fantastic) is getting such terrib… [Read more]
by Jeffrey Tucker
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We tend to think of the past as settled. There is nothing we can do to change it. But this is not entirely true. How we … [Read more]
by Jeffrey Tucker
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Randal K. Quarles, a Trump administration appointee to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and Vice Chair for bank s… [Read more]
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