Reading Jonathan Culbreath’s “Modern Monetary Theory for Conservatives” one can’t help but think of Murray Rothbard’s quip that “it is not a crime to be ignorant of economics … but it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion

“We believe that hindsight will show the champion of head-smacking craziness in the American stock market to be the period playing out right now.”~ Paul Singer, letter to Elliott Management shareholders, January 28, 2021 Who says finance has to be boring?

Rothbard called Mises's The Theory of Money and Credit "the best book on money ever written." But Rothbard himself may have written the best money book for lay readers, namely What Has Government Done to Our Money?  Bob Murphy joins the show to

March 31 gave us a statement on the American Jobs Plan, and April 28 saw President Joe Biden speak on it to the American people (well, roughly 8 percent of the American people). The goal of the law is the following: While the

[Originally published April 4, 2006, at LewRockwell.com] "You would spare these criminals, for some mysterious reason. I would hang them higher than Haman, for reasons of quite obvious justice; still more, still higher, for the sake of historical science."1 Thus ends a

Murray Rothbard was a polymath, and philosophy is one of the fields to which he made important contributions. When people think of him as a philosopher, though, they often have in mind only his work in ethics and political philosophy,

Peter G Klein is Carl Menger Research Fellow of the Mises Institute and W.W. Caruth Chair and Professor of Entrepreneurship at Baylor University’s Hankamer School of Business. He is also senior research fellow at Baylor’s Baugh Center for Entrepreneurship and

In 1966, famed Chicago School economist Milton Friedman wrote a hugely influential essay on the methodology of economics entitled "The Methodology of Positive Economics" (contained in the volume Essays in Positive Economics). In distinguishing economics as a “positive science”, Friedman