While monetary inflation has various economic effects—predictable and surprising, direct and indirect—this article seeks to explore the effects of monetary inflation on food. Specifically, debased currency leads to debased food.
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Colleen Hroncich “We realized there was really a need here for differentiating of learning,” explains Fig Newton, an entrepreneur in Des Moines, Iowa. He and his wife had extensive national…
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Jeffrey Miron In 2019, Chinese authorities restricted minors to 90 minutes of video games on weekdays and 3 hours on weekends, while also banning gaming between 10:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. Authorities further tightened…
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Assistant editor Joshua Mawhorter joins Tho Bishop and Connor O’Keeffe on the Power and Market Podcast. The three discuss Trump’s acquisition of a stake in Intel, consider how monetary policy…
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In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon reviews The Woke Revolution: Up From Slavery and Back Again by H.V. Traywick, Jr., and finds Traywick’s observations have much credibility.
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San Francisco politicians have made it so difficult to build new housing that a black market for apartments has emerged.
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Trump’s recent actions recall earlier episodes of US industrial policy, such as wartime production controls and financial crisis interventions, when governments assumed temporary stakes or direct control over private enterprise.
Assistant editor Joshua Mawhorter joins Tho Bishop and Connor O’Keeffe on the Power and Market Podcast. The three discuss Trump’s acquisition of a stake in Intel, consider how monetary policy…
As the Federal Reserve has delayed lowering the federal funds rate, the money supply has stabilized in recent months. This trend also reflects rising delinquencies, falling home sales, and stagnating…
In 1806 Napoleon issued the Berlin Decree, laying out his Continental System he hoped would starve Great Britain into submission through blockades and anti-trade policies. In the end, smuggling and…