Topic: Economic History

Is It Time to Rethink Labor Day?

– September 6, 2021

“When we celebrate market freedom, we end up celebrating all those who participate in the process. From the most humble of bartenders to the wealthiest of bankers, we all matter in what we do for one another.” ~ Anthony Gill

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The Year of Corporate Discontent

– September 6, 2021

“If you thought things were crazy on the corporate scene over the last few years, you should check out what happened in 1970. It is the stuff of blockbuster books and movies.” ~ Robert E. Wright

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How Activist Academia Destroyed Scholarly Peer Review

– September 4, 2021

“If these are the practices that Cambridge University Press is willing to tolerate from journals such as Contemporary European History, we may safely conclude that their ‘rigourous peer-review system’ is not so rigorous after all.” ~ Phillip W. Magness

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Decentralized Stablecoins: The Real Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash Systems

– August 25, 2021

“Bitcoin still has a role to play as a globally popular speculative token. It’s time for the decentralized stablecoins to take their place as the real peer-to-peer electronic cash systems.” ~ J.P. Koning

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Nixonomics in Retrospect: Devaluation and Wage-Price Controls, August 15, 1971

– August 18, 2021

“Many costly tax and other economic policy mistakes were made in the seventies, but the worst problems of the 1973-82 stagflationary era by far were the legacy of terrible monetary and regulatory blunders made in 1971.” ~ Alan Reynolds

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A Tragic Half Century Without Gold Money

– August 15, 2021

“Fifty years without a gold-based monetary system is not only unprecedented in human history but unfriendly to economic prosperity.” ~ Richard M. Salsman

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Nixon’s Gold Treachery Made Me a Cynic

– August 13, 2021

“If the government continues on this path, it is only a question of time until fresh debacles result. But from the economic wreckage, a new generation of cynics may arise who do a far better job of putting politicians back on a leash.” ~ James Bovard

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Early America’s Socialist Utopias Offer Lessons for Today

– August 12, 2021

“History constantly teaches us that socialism, even when implemented in different ways, will fail and obstruct the growth that communities could have otherwise enjoyed.” ~ Amelia Janaskie & Micha Gartz

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A Conversation on Keynes, Morality, and the Economy

– July 31, 2021

“On this episode of the Authors Corner, Ethan sits down with AIER Visiting Fellow, Dr. Victor Claar to speak about his recent research and publications on the ideas of John Maynard Keynes and their long-term impact on how we view economics from a moral perspective.” ~ AIER

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History Lessons: The Case Against Regulating ESG Ratings Agencies

– July 28, 2021

“This history lesson strongly suggests to us that security regulators should refrain from endorsing any particular ESG metric. Sadly, security regulators around the world appear to be intent on repeating the mistakes made by the SEC in the 1970s.” ~ Robert E. Wright & Andrew Smith

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The Invisible Hand Relies Upon Visible Prices

– July 28, 2021

“Prices are among the visible results of the invisible hand’s successful operation, as well as the single most important source of this success. The market’s invisible hand, in short, alone makes possible – yet equally depends upon – visible market prices.” ~ Donald J. Boudreaux

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What Do Wildcat Banks Tell Us About Stablecoins?

– July 22, 2021

“The experience in Michigan when it was a frontier state in the same year that the telegraph was invented is not particularly pertinent for discerning the likely success of private currency with the communications technology available today. ‘Wildcat’ is a phrase that has no relevance for stablecoins.” ~ Gerald P Dwyer

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