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Will Trump End the Fed or Put Himself in Charge of It?

April 7, 2025

President Trump‘s recent assertions that the Fed should lower the discount rate puts him squarely in the middle of Fed politics and

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Beware: The ECB Digital Currency Is Coming

April 5, 2025

Central bank digital currencies are surveillance disguised as money.

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Training Young Economists

April 5, 2025

Part of bringing up young children is to tell them stories and accounts about people who did the right thing, and how

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The Medieval Origins of the European Miracle

April 5, 2025

"The critical point was, again the Middle Ages, and there you had an adversarial position between the church and the state that

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Not Worth a Transcontinental: Railroading a Nation into Prosperity

April 5, 2025

American history classes typically teach that the original transcontinental railroad was a major triumph. What they don‘t say is that it was