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Even the Inventor of GDP Statistics Knew Government Spending Was Dubious
March 30, 2025
Patrick Newman joins Bob to discuss Simon Kuznets’ role in developing GNP and GDP metrics and Kuznets’ concerns over how government spending
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Free Trade with All Nations
March 29, 2025
Richard Cobden was a British champion of laissez-faire who served in Parliament. While there, he led to successful campaign to repeal the
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The Saint-Simonians in Our Midst: Ben Bernanke and the GFC
March 29, 2025
While Ben Bernanke has accused free market and sound money advocates of pursuing “discredited” systems, he and his lieutenants were following a
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Free Trade in the Twenty-First Century
March 29, 2025
International trade is the topic du jour. Mark Thornton shares his recent presentation on a timely and important book featuring many of
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Free Trade in the Twenty-First Century
March 29, 2025
International trade is the topic du jour. Mark Thornton shares his recent presentation on a timely and important book featuring many of
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Skin Tone Products, Markets, and “White Privilege”
March 28, 2025
Lack of products that precisely match skin tones are often said to be evidence of “white privilege,” yet the market division of
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Foreign Aid, Reparations, And Economic Growth
March 28, 2025
Western elites repeatedly call for “reparations” payments to former Western colonies ostensibly to lift them from poverty. By turning these countries into
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The Struggle for Liberty
March 28, 2025
This week, David Gordon draws insights from The Struggle for Liberty: A Libertarian History of Political Thought—a new Mises book that adapts
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Contrary to “Distorians,” Herbert Hoover did not Favor Laissez-Faire
March 27, 2025
An enduring myth among American historians is that President Hoover failed to respond to the Great Depression because he believed in laissez-faire