The Federal Reserve Does Not Own Gold
By Ryan McMaken Historically—as during the days of the classical gold standard—central banks maintained stocks of gold to facilitate the conversion of gold-backed national currencies….
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Smedley Butler Explains The Latest Excuse For American Intervention In Ukraine
Authored by Ryan McMaken via The Mises Institute Senior Fellow Alex Pollock drew my attention to an important quotation by Smedley Butler: 1935 speech and…
2024’s Deficit Is Already on Track to Be the Worst Since Covid
By Ryan McMaken Weakness in the US economy continues to hide behind surging debt levels and government spending. As noted last month by Daniel LaCalle,…
The Evil of the Residential Property Tax
By Ryan McMaken According to the Case-Shiller index, home prices have increased 44 percent since February 2020. That’s just an average, of course, and some…
The Money Supply Continues its Biggest Collapse Since the Great Depression
By Ryan McMaken Money supply growth fell again in October, remaining deep in negative territory after turning negative in November 2022 for the first time…
Fact-Checkers Are Gaslighting You on the Feds’ Vehicle “Kill Switch” Mandate
By Jon Miltimore In November 2021, former US Representative from Georgia Bob Barr wrote a little-noticed political column claiming that buried inside President Joe Biden’s…
Credit Crunch: The Money Supply Has Shrunk For Eight Months In a Row
By Ryan McMaken Money supply growth fell again in June, remaining deep in negative territory after turning negative in November 2022 for the first time…
Money Supply Growth Falls to Depression-Era Levels for Second Month in April
By Ryan McMaken Money supply growth fell again in April, plummeting further into negative territory after turning negative in November 2022 for the first time…
Three Lies They’re Telling You about the Debt Ceiling
By Ryan McMaken Negotiations over increasing the federal debt ceiling continue in Washington. As has occurred several times over the past twenty years, Republicans and…
The Dominion Lawsuit against Fox News Is Part of the War against Free Speech
By Ryan McMaken In March 2021, Dominion Voting Systems—a company that produces electronic voting equipment and software—sued Fox New Channel for $1.6 billion. Dominion claimed…
Real Wages Fall for Two Years Straight as “Transitory” Inflation Turns Stubborn
By Ryan McMaken The federal government’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released new price inflation data last week, and according to the report, price inflation during the…
De-Dollarization and the Fall of American Hegemony
By Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop On this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop discuss the global moves being made against the…
Food and Shelter Prices Keep Climbing as CPI Growth Hits a Three-Month High
By Ryan McMaken The federal government’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released new price inflation data today, and according to the report, price inflation during…
Why the End of the Petrodollar Spells Trouble for the US Regime
By Ryan McMaken On January 17 the Saudi minister of finance, Mohammed Al-Jadaan, announced that the Saudi state is open to selling oil in currencies…