A reader writes: I am writing from India, a country cloaked in Socialist government policies. I came across Austrian School of Economics on the Internet, and was surprised that even…
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Twenty years ago, as I was completing my freshman year in college, I was a full-blown neoconservative. Except I didn’t know it. Having concluded that I was not a leftist,…
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Gary North connected some dots for me the other day. Who benefits from labor unions? Naturally, union members themselves. They forcibly keep out of an industry or a firm some group of workers who are…
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A reader writes: So I am starting research to begin writing a short book on the economic history of [name of place removed by TW]. First of all I want…
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I have four things to say. (1) David Weidner wrote an article critical of the gold standard. (2) The article contains gems of knowledge like this: Another problem is that rather…
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Ron Paul left the GOP convention unexpectedly early yesterday, and is back home in Texas. I don’t suppose this was part of the Benton/Tate playbook, so I consider it very good news indeed.

Max Keiser and his co-host continued the barrage of insults while I was in Tampa this weekend, and of course portrayed my absence as evidence that I am a charlatan…
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I believe economist Bob Murphy is correct that I misinterpreted one of Sandeep Jaitly’s statements in his now-notorious interview with Max Keiser. I found Jaitly to be well meaning but not a particularly good…
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Max Keiser has replied to my criticism of his segment last week in which he and his guest criticized Ludwig von Mises and claimed he wasn’t a true Austrian economist [!]. Read his reply . I…
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Max Keiser had a truly bizarre segment last week in which he and his guest advanced the claim that Ludwig von Mises didn’t qualify as an Austrian economist, so great…
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